Hadeel Elayan, Osama Amin, R. Shubair, Mohamed-Slim Alouini
{"title":"Terahertz communication: The opportunities of wireless technology beyond 5G","authors":"Hadeel Elayan, Osama Amin, R. Shubair, Mohamed-Slim Alouini","doi":"10.1109/COMMNET.2018.8360286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMMNET.2018.8360286","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past years, carrier frequencies used for wireless communications have been increasing to meet bandwidth requirements. The engineering community witnessed the development of wide radio bands such as the millimeter-wave (mmW) frequencies to fulfill the explosive growth of mobile data demand and pave the way towards 5G networks. Other research interests have been steered towards optical wireless communication to allow higher data rates, improve physical security and avoid electromagnetic interference. Nevertheless, a paradigm change in the electromagnetic wireless world has been witnessed with the exploitation of the Terahertz (THz) frequency band (0.1–10 THz). With the dawn of THz technology, which fills the gap between radio and optical frequency ranges, ultimate promise is expected for the next generation of wireless networks. In this paper, the light is shed on a number of opportunities associated with the deployment of the THz wireless links. These opportunities offer a plethora of applications to meet the future communication requirements and satisfy the ever increasing user demand of higher data rates.","PeriodicalId":103830,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networking (CommNet)","volume":"181 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122304979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ayoub Bahnasse, M. Talea, A. Badri, Fatima Ezzahraa Louhab
{"title":"New smart platform for automating MPLS virtual private network simulation","authors":"Ayoub Bahnasse, M. Talea, A. Badri, Fatima Ezzahraa Louhab","doi":"10.1109/COMMNET.2018.8360268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMMNET.2018.8360268","url":null,"abstract":"Virtual Private Networks through Multi-Protocol Label Switching technology (MPLS VPN) is no longer considered a simple technology connects securely remote sites, but especially a promoter industrial market. Like any other industrial project, before deploying the MPLS VPN solution, the operator must ensure that his network meets the client requirements and especially see how this network behaves in various constraints. The ideal therefore is to simulate the network environment in a specialized simulator with identical equipment. The MPLS VPN simulation is not an easy task given several reasons: (i) the network scales are often very large, (ii) MPLS VPN architectures are multiple, and each requires deployment rules, (iii) a project can sometimes contain a thousand different scenarios, (iv) a simple parameterization error may jeopardize the reliability of the obtained results, etc. Given these challenges, we propose by this paper a new platform for automating MPLS VPN simulation under different simulators. The platform is accompanied by a new web tool allowing the ease of its manipulation. The platform has been tested under OPNET Modeler, the results obtained have shown that the time required to generate 800 scenarios does not exceed one minute in total.","PeriodicalId":103830,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networking (CommNet)","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127346676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Location-aware load balancing routing protocol for LEO satellite networks","authors":"M. Hussein, A. Abu-Issa, Israa Elayyan","doi":"10.1109/COMMNET.2018.8360244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMMNET.2018.8360244","url":null,"abstract":"As the satellites are limited by the deficient hardware resources and the difficulty of hardware upgrading. A location-aware load balancing routing is an effective way to prolong the lifetime of satellites by decreasing the charging and discharging rate in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite battery during the eclipse period. The proposed algorithm direct the traffic load to solar-period satellites to avoid using battery-eclipse satellites as relay. By tuning some tunable coefficient, this algorithm can provide a trade-off between the operational lifetime of the satellite networks and the propagation delay of the selected routes. A better distribution of traffic among satellites can be guaranteed as well. The proposed scheme is dubbed: Location-Aware Load Balancing (LABRA) scheme. Through simulations on Iridium-like constellation, the proposed scheme is shown to achieve better load balancing, and can especially increase the battery lifetime, guarantee better throughput and lower packet loss. Furthermore, results from the implementation complexity analysis demonstrate that with the aid of space orbit parameters, LABRA has lower on-board computation, storage and zero exchange signaling between satellites than other on-board routing schemes.","PeriodicalId":103830,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networking (CommNet)","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128099349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Information sharing based on local PSO for UAVs cooperative search of unmoved targets","authors":"H. Saadaoui, Faissal El Bouanani","doi":"10.1109/COMMNET.2018.8360276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMMNET.2018.8360276","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, a new optimization strategy is proposed for sharing and merging information about unmoved targets' locations in cooperative research of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The objective is to minimize the search time taking into account the detection and the communication limitations. Taking into account the potential false alarm and the miss detection of the target, we declare, based on sensors' observations during the exploration, either the existence or the absence of a target. The search area is partitioned into cells of equal size, each cell being associated with a target-occurrence probability and the number of hits received by UAVs, which are a probability map (search map) and a map visit (certainty map). Based on the cooperative and competitive particle swarm optimization algorithm, we propose a decentralized control model for goal-seeking relying on the construction of subgroups of cooperative UAVs in real time. Each UAV takes into consideration the possible actions of other UAVs to increase global environmental information. The simulation results illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed strategy compared to previously known ones.","PeriodicalId":103830,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networking (CommNet)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130308878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mohamed Tarbouch, Abdelkebir El Amri, H. Terchoune, Ouadiaa Barrou
{"title":"A compact microstrip patch antenna based on fractal geometry on the ground plane","authors":"Mohamed Tarbouch, Abdelkebir El Amri, H. Terchoune, Ouadiaa Barrou","doi":"10.1109/COMMNET.2018.8360245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMMNET.2018.8360245","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, two miniaturization techniques are combined to obtain a high degree of miniaturization of a microstrip patch antenna. The first technique is a simple modification of the ground plane which consists of cutting the ground plane placed in the reverse side of the patch, and the second technique is a trial of the H-Tree fractal slots in the resulting ground plane. The studied structure is suitable for 5.80 GHz RFID, LTE, PCS, 2.3/2.5/3.3/3.5GHz WIMAX and for 3.6/2.4–2.5GHz WLAN applications. The radiating element is a small patch of dimensions 20∗26 mm2 and it is designed on a single and a small substrate board of dimensions 47×47×1.6 mm3. Moreover the miniaturized antenna has a good impedance matching and a reasonable gain. All the simulations were performed in CADFEKO, a Method of Moment (MoM) based solver.","PeriodicalId":103830,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networking (CommNet)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133879338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A novel detector based on the compact genetic algorithm for MIMO systems","authors":"N. Tahiri, Ahmed Azouaoui, M. Belkasmi","doi":"10.1109/COMMNET.2018.8360279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMMNET.2018.8360279","url":null,"abstract":"Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) wireless communication systems have attracted recently a lot of research attention due to their potential to increase the communication throughput and capacity. The minimum Bit Error Rate performance (BER) can be achieved using the Maximum Likelihood (ML) search based detection, but it's computationally impractical for large MIMO systems and higher order modulation. The compact Genetic Algorithm (cGA) is a powerful search technique that is used successfully to solve many problems in various disciplines. In this paper, we propose a new MIMO detector based on the compact GA as well as a second version based on the persistent elitist compact GA, we use a hybridization between them and the soft output of the Minimum Mean Square Error (MMSE) at the level of the initialization of the probability vector. Simulation results show that our proposal can achieve the performance of ML detector for MIMO systems with a reduced computing time.","PeriodicalId":103830,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networking (CommNet)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116097932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"High efficiency IEEE 802.11ax MU-MIMO and frame aggregation analysis","authors":"Zineb Machrouh, A. Najid","doi":"10.1109/COMMNET.2018.8360264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMMNET.2018.8360264","url":null,"abstract":"High Efficiency Wireless Local Area Network IEEE 802.11ax was introduced as an amendment for the IEEE 802.11 standard following a long series of enhancements. Unlike its predecessor, it aims to improve the performance based on the efficiency instead of the throughput. Due to the newness of the standard, many aspects are still unexplored. In our paper, we shed light on the new concepts introduced in this amendment along with older one which have been enhanced to better suit higher efficiency. Most importantly, we examine the MU-MIMO and frame aggregation scenarios, which remain an open challenge. We then proceed to analyze the performance of this amendment under various parameters in order to cover several cases.","PeriodicalId":103830,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networking (CommNet)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116291532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Olivier Debauche, Meryem El Moulat, S. Mahmoudi, P. Manneback, F. Lebeau
{"title":"Irrigation pivot-center connected at low cost for the reduction of crop water requirements","authors":"Olivier Debauche, Meryem El Moulat, S. Mahmoudi, P. Manneback, F. Lebeau","doi":"10.1109/COMMNET.2018.8360259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMMNET.2018.8360259","url":null,"abstract":"Irrigation, particularly pivot-center, is widely used around the world to fill the need of crop watering. This method of irrigation has a low efficiency compared to other methods of irrigation such as drip systems and generally they use water without consider the real need of plants. In this paper we propose an automation system based on the Internet of Things (IoT), Geographic Information System (GIS) and quasi real-time in the cloud of water requirements to improve the efficiency of water use. Indeed, each segment of the pivot-center moves at a different speed compared to others; thus, must be individually controlled to optimize the yield of irrigation. Moreover, it necessary to integrate factors such as stage of crops' development, heterogeneity of soil, runoff, drainage, soil components, nutrients and moisture content. In this paper we develop a complete system integrating sensors, GIS, Internet of Things and cloud computing. This approach allows to automate fine-grained the consumption of water without decreasing the yield. In addition to that, the collect of data and the soil moisture measurement will allow to adapt coefficient of evapotranspiration to local weather without having to resort to lysimetric measures. The proposed architecture allows to store and treat real-time, time series data and low-priority data such as 3D images used in digital phenotyping field which are treated with batch processing.","PeriodicalId":103830,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networking (CommNet)","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127555093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new architecture for enhancing the QoS of IPTV video components in LTE systems","authors":"Mohamed Matoui, N. Moumkine, A. Adib","doi":"10.1109/COMMNET.2018.8360249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMMNET.2018.8360249","url":null,"abstract":"IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) technologies cannot perform its highest QoS (Quality of Service) approaches as they aren't able to distinguish between the priorities of IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) video components. IMS system also cannot ensure high IPTV data transfer due to the limitation of available cellular bandwidth. In this paper, we try to merge the advantage of high bandwidth assigned to LTE (Long Term Evolution) and a new PHB (Per-Hop Behavior) that classify and differentiate between IPTV sub traffics by using IPv6 Flow Label. This new architecture permits high-quality IPTV video components with the capability to prioritize the sub traffic according to the network administrator policy which itself allows IPTV packets to avoid best-effort treatment. The proposed architecture is implemented using OPNET software using two different scenarios. The obtained results show that IPTV users receive high-quality video data with a change in quantity according to data priority.","PeriodicalId":103830,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networking (CommNet)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129862329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Feedback overhead comparison between frequency SVD and time domain beamforming in WLAN context","authors":"Papis Ndiaye, M. Diallo, M. Mbaye, I. Diop","doi":"10.1109/COMMNET.2018.8360272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMMNET.2018.8360272","url":null,"abstract":"This paper propose an efficient Time Domain Quantization feedback for beamforming in WLAN MIMO-OFDM systems. This technic is based on Time Domain Beamforming and exploits the temporal properties of the MIMO channel. Simulations results in IEEE 802.11ac context with empirical ITU channel models show that whatever the bandwidth or MIMO configuration, the feedback overhead of the proposed quantization is shorter than that of the conventional Givens Rotation.","PeriodicalId":103830,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networking (CommNet)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128647173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}