{"title":"From computer vision to short text understanding: Applying similar approaches into different disciplines","authors":"Jiayin Lin;Geng Sun;Jun Shen;David E. Pritchard;Ping Yu;Tingru Cui;Dongming Xu;Li Li;Ghassan Beydoun","doi":"10.23919/ICN.2022.0010","DOIUrl":"10.23919/ICN.2022.0010","url":null,"abstract":"With the development of IoT and 5G technologies, more and more online resources are presented in trendy multimodal data forms over the Internet. Hence, effectively processing multimodal information is significant to the development of various online applications, including e-Iearning and digital health, to just name a few. However, most AI-driven systems or models can only handle limited forms of information. In this study, we investigate the correlation between natural language processing (NLP) and pattern recognition, trying to apply the mainstream approaches and models used in the computer vision (CV) to the task of NLP. Based on two different Twitter datasets, we propose a convolutional neural network based model to interpret the content of short text with different goals and application backgrounds. The experiments have demonstrated that our proposed model shows fairly competitive performance compared to the mainstream recurrent neural network based NLP models such as bidirectional long short-term memory (Bi-LSTM) and bidirectional gate recurrent unit (Bi-GRU). Moreover, the experimental results also demonstrate that the proposed model can precisely locate the key information in the given text.","PeriodicalId":100681,"journal":{"name":"Intelligent and Converged Networks","volume":"3 2","pages":"161-172"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/9195266/9878033/09878056.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47622707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PointGAT: Graph attention networks for 3D object detection","authors":"Haoran Zhou;Wei Wang;Gang Liu;Qingguo Zhou","doi":"10.23919/ICN.2022.0014","DOIUrl":"10.23919/ICN.2022.0014","url":null,"abstract":"3D object detection is a critical technology in many applications, and among the various detection methods, pointcloud-based methods have been the most popular research topic in recent years. Since Graph Neural Network (GNN) is considered to be effective in dealing with pointclouds, in this work, we combined it with the attention mechanism and proposed a 3D object detection method named PointGAT. Our proposed PointGAT outperforms previous approaches on the KITTI test dataset. Experiments in real campus scenarios also demonstrate the potential of our method for further applications.","PeriodicalId":100681,"journal":{"name":"Intelligent and Converged Networks","volume":"3 2","pages":"204-216"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/9195266/9878033/09878055.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47316353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research on throughput prediction of 5G network based on LSTM","authors":"Lanlan Li;Tao Ye","doi":"10.23919/ICN.2022.0006","DOIUrl":"10.23919/ICN.2022.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a wireless network traffic prediction model based on long-term and short-term memory cyclic neural networks. Through simulation experiments, the throughput prediction of 5G wireless networks using different scheduling algorithms for many different types of services is studied. The results verify that the long short-term memory prediction model has acceptable prediction accuracy and algorithm training speed, meets the needs of wireless network traffic prediction, and has a good application prospect.","PeriodicalId":100681,"journal":{"name":"Intelligent and Converged Networks","volume":"3 2","pages":"217-227"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/9195266/9878033/09878077.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42026623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Energy enhancement and efficient route selection mechanism using H-SWIPT for multi-hop IoT networks","authors":"B. Pavani;L. Nirmala Devi;K. Venkata Subbareddy","doi":"10.23919/ICN.2022.0013","DOIUrl":"10.23919/ICN.2022.0013","url":null,"abstract":"Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) is recently emerging as one of the vital solutions to prolong the lifetime of energy constrained wireless sensor nodes. However, current works on SWIPT considered only the immediate past-hop node's RF signal as a source of energy harvesting in multi-hop Internet of things (IoT) networks. In case of weak radio frequency (RF) signal, the amount of harvested energy does not support for continuous communication. Hence, in this paper a new energy harvesting mechanism is proposed which considers multiple sources (MS) such as (1) sink broadcasting energy, (2) co-channel interference, (3) neighbor nodes' RF signal, and (4) immediate past-hop node's RF signal for energy harvesting. Towards such prospect, a new SWIPT architecture is proposed called hybrid SWIPT (H-SWIPT) by integrating time switching (TS) and power splitting (PS) architectures. Furthermore, an efficient route selection mechanism is introduced to minimize the total energy consumption of the path based on an energy cost metric. To validate the proposed mechanism, simulation experiments are conducted and obtained the superiority of H-SWIPT compared with existing methods in terms of average harvested energy. Further, the effectiveness of proposed method performance is investigated through energy cost at different node density and barrier rates.","PeriodicalId":100681,"journal":{"name":"Intelligent and Converged Networks","volume":"3 2","pages":"173-189"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/9195266/9878033/09878035.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43415189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xianghui Han;Kai Xiao;Ruiqi Liu;Xing Liu;George C. Alexandropoulos;Shi Jin
{"title":"Dynamic resource allocation schemes for eMBB and URLLC services in 5G wireless networks","authors":"Xianghui Han;Kai Xiao;Ruiqi Liu;Xing Liu;George C. Alexandropoulos;Shi Jin","doi":"10.23919/ICN.2022.0011","DOIUrl":"10.23919/ICN.2022.0011","url":null,"abstract":"The fifth generation (5G) of wireless networks features three core use cases, namely ultra-reliable and low latency communications (URLLC), massive machine type communications (mMTC), and enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB). These use cases co-exist in many practical scenarios and compete for the same set of time and frequency resources, resulting in a natural trade-off in their performance. In this paper, a network supporting both URLLC and eMBB modes of operation is studied. To guarantee the ultra low latency requirement of URLLC, a dynamic resource allocation scheme indicated by a two-dimensional bitmap is proposed. This approach is capable to achieve finer granularity as well as lower false cancellation rate compared to the state-of-the-art methods. A novel power control and indication method is also proposed to dynamically provide different power control parameters to the user equipment (UE), while guaranteeing the reliability requirement of URLLC and minimizing the impact to eMBB. In addition, we devise a dynamic selection mechanism (DSM) to accommodate diverse scenarios, which is empowered with load prediction to become more intelligent. Our extensive system-level simulation results for eMBB-URLLC co-existence scenarios showcase that the perceived throughput of eMBB UEs is increased by 45.3%, while about 13.3% more UEs are enjoying URLLC services with at most 84% transmit power savings compared to the state-of-the-art methods.","PeriodicalId":100681,"journal":{"name":"Intelligent and Converged Networks","volume":"3 2","pages":"145-160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/9195266/9878033/09878057.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43484482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mohamed A. Elmossallamy;Radwa Sultan;Karim G. Seddik;Geoffery Ye Li;Zhu Han
{"title":"Maximizing dirty-paper coding rate of RIS-assisted multi-user MIMO broadcast channels","authors":"Mohamed A. Elmossallamy;Radwa Sultan;Karim G. Seddik;Geoffery Ye Li;Zhu Han","doi":"10.23919/ICN.2022.0004","DOIUrl":"10.23919/ICN.2022.0004","url":null,"abstract":"We consider a downlink multi-user scenario and investigate the use of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) to maximize the dirty-paper-coding (DPC) sum rate of the RIS-assisted broadcast channel. Different from prior works, which maximize the rate achievable by linear precoders, we assume a capacity-achieving DPC scheme is employed at the transmitter and optimize the transmit covariances and RIS reflection coefficients to directly maximize the sum capacity of the broadcast channel. We propose an optimization algorithm that iteratively alternates between optimizing the transmit covariances using convex optimization and the RIS reflection coefficients using Riemannian manifold optimization. Our results show that the proposed technique can be used to effectively improve the sum capacity in a variety of scenarios compared to benchmark schemes.","PeriodicalId":100681,"journal":{"name":"Intelligent and Converged Networks","volume":"3 1","pages":"64-73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/9195266/9765810/09765775.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45493987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reconfigurable intelligent surface assisted grant-free massive access","authors":"Xingyu Zhou;Keke Ying;Shicong Liu;Malong Ke;Zhen Gao;Mohamed-Slim Alouini","doi":"10.23919/ICN.2022.0009","DOIUrl":"10.23919/ICN.2022.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Massive machine-type communications (mMTC) is envisioned to be one of the pivotal scenarios in the fifth-generation (5G) wireless communication, where the explosively emerging Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications have triggered the demand for services with low-latency and high-reliability. To this end, grant-free random access paradigm has been proposed as a promising enabler in simplifying the connection procedure and significantly reducing access latency. In this paper, we propose to leverage the burgeoning reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) for grant-free massive access working at millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequency to further boost access reliability. By attaching independently controllable phase shifts, reconfiguring, and refracting the propagation of incident electromagnetic waves, the deployed RISs could provide additional diversity gain and enhance the access channel conditions. On this basis, to address the challenging active device detection (ADD) and channel estimation (CE) problem, we develop a joint-ADDCE (JADDCE) method by resorting to the existing approximate message passing (AMP) algorithm with expectation maximization (EM) to extract the structured common sparsity in traffic behaviors and cascaded channel matrices. Finally, simulations are carried out to demonstrate the superiority of our proposed scheme.","PeriodicalId":100681,"journal":{"name":"Intelligent and Converged Networks","volume":"3 1","pages":"134-143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/9195266/9765810/09765812.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49166044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mengnan Jian;George C. Alexandropoulos;Ertugrul Basar;Chongwen Huang;Ruiqi Liu;Yuanwei Liu;Chau Yuen
{"title":"Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces for wireless communications: Overview of hardware designs, channel models, and estimation techniques","authors":"Mengnan Jian;George C. Alexandropoulos;Ertugrul Basar;Chongwen Huang;Ruiqi Liu;Yuanwei Liu;Chau Yuen","doi":"10.23919/ICN.2022.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/ICN.2022.0005","url":null,"abstract":"The demanding objectives for the future sixth generation (6G) of wireless communication networks have spurred recent research efforts on novel materials and radio-frequency front-end architectures for wireless connectivity, as well as revolutionary communication and computing paradigms. Among the pioneering candidate technologies for 6G belong the reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), which are artificial planar structures with integrated electronic circuits that can be programmed to manipulate the incoming electromagnetic field in a wide variety of functionalities. Incorporating RISs in wireless networks have been recently advocated as a revolutionary means to transform any wireless signal propagation environment to a dynamically programmable one, intended for various networking objectives, such as coverage extension and capacity boosting, spatiotemporal focusing with benefits in energy efficiency and secrecy, and low electromagnetic field exposure. Motivated by the recent increasing interests in the field of RISs and the consequent pioneering concept of the RIS-enabled smart wireless environments, in this paper, we overview and taxonomize the latest advances in RIS hardware architectures as well as the most recent developments in the modeling of RIS unit elements and RIS-empowered wireless signal propagation. We also present a thorough overview of the channel estimation approaches for RIS-empowered communications systems, which constitute a prerequisite step for the optimized incorporation of RISs in future wireless networks. Finally, we discuss the relevance of the RIS technology in the latest wireless communication standards, and highlight the current and future standardization activities for the RIS technology and the consequent RIS-empowered wireless networking approaches.","PeriodicalId":100681,"journal":{"name":"Intelligent and Converged Networks","volume":"3 1","pages":"1-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/9195266/9765810/09765815.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49966885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reconfigurable intelligent surface-aided wireless communications: An overview","authors":"Muhammad Zain Siddiqi;Talha Mir","doi":"10.23919/ICN.2022.0007","DOIUrl":"10.23919/ICN.2022.0007","url":null,"abstract":"The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is an emerging technology, which will hopefully bring a new revolution in wireless communications. The RIS technology can be deployed in an indoor/outdoor environment to dynamically manipulate the propagation environment. The RIS consists of a large number of independently controllable passive elements, and these elements are involved in realizing high passive beamforming gain. Different from the conventional active phased antenna array, there is no dedicated radio-frequency (RF) chain installed at the RIS to perform complex signal processing operations. Therefore, it does not incur additional noise while retransmitting the incident wave, which is substantially a unique feature from the conventional wireless communication systems. Taking advantage of its working principle, RIS has been deployed in various practical scenarios. In this tutorial, at first we will review the latest advances in RIS, including the application scenarios such as the system and channel model, the information theoretic analysis, the physical realization and design, key signal processing techniques such as precoding and channel estimation, and prototyping. Finally, we discuss interesting future research problems for the RIS-aided communications.","PeriodicalId":100681,"journal":{"name":"Intelligent and Converged Networks","volume":"3 1","pages":"33-63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/9195266/9765810/09765811.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43898491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yan Zhang;Jiayi Zhang;Derrick Wing Kwan Ng;Huahua Xiao;Bo Ai
{"title":"Performance analysis of reconfigurable intelligent surface assisted systems under channel aging","authors":"Yan Zhang;Jiayi Zhang;Derrick Wing Kwan Ng;Huahua Xiao;Bo Ai","doi":"10.23919/ICN.2022.0002","DOIUrl":"10.23919/ICN.2022.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have attracted significant attention due to their capability in customizing wireless communication environments to improve system performance. In this study, we investigate the performance of an RIS-assisted multi-user multiple-input single-output wireless communication system, considering the impact of channel aging caused by users' relative movements. In particular, first, we propose a model incorporating the joint effects of channel aging and channel estimation errors to investigate the performance of the RIS-assisted system. Then, we derive novel closed-form expressions for characterizing the sum spectral efficiency with zero-forcing precoding. From our analysis, we unveil that an increase in the temporal channel correlation coefficient, the number of base station antennas, and the received power at the users could help improve system performance. Furthermore, increasing the number of reflecting elements \u0000<tex>$M$</tex>\u0000 of the RIS generally yields a good system performance, but with a diminishing return when \u0000<tex>$M$</tex>\u0000 is sufficiently large. Finally, simulation results are presented to validate the accuracy of the analytical results.","PeriodicalId":100681,"journal":{"name":"Intelligent and Converged Networks","volume":"3 1","pages":"74-85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/9195266/9765810/09765773.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45121837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}