{"title":"Effective Subcarrier Pairing for Hybrid Delivery in Relay Networks","authors":"Xiao Zhang, Li Xiao","doi":"10.1109/MASS50613.2020.00038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MASS50613.2020.00038","url":null,"abstract":"The emerging 5G adopts OFDM modulation and deploys small-cell amplify and forward (AF) relays for in-cell capacity enhancement and energy efficiency. However, hybrid delivery services for multiple users where broadcast and unicast coexist are inefficient and unfair due to their different QoS requirements. Most existing work considering hybrid broadcast and unicast traffic focuses on different scheduling schemes in onehop scenarios. For dual-hop relay networks, subcarrier mapping or pairing has been studied, but none considers hybrid traffic with both broadcast and unicast. In this paper, we propose an effective subcarrier pairing (ESP) protocol, which exploits the performance diversity in subcarrier pairing at relays to improve the overall performance of hybrid broadcast and unicast traffic. ESP exquisitely pairs subcarriers of two hops into two kinds of subcarrier pairs separately. ESP then allocates subcarrier pairs with low outage probability for broadcast and subcarrier pairs with high capacity for unicast. In ESP design, we study several important metrics such as end-to-end outage probability, capacity, and bit-error-rate (BER) in AF assisted OFDM-CDMA relay networks. We conduct Monte Carlo simulations to verify the effectiveness and fairness of our approach in hybrid transmission. Results show that ESP is efficient in hybrid delivery for relay networks and improves the performance of broadcast services significantly without sacrificing unicast services.","PeriodicalId":105795,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE 17th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130194224","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}
Pavithra Chidambaram Pappa, Aarushi Sarbhai, Aniqua Z. Baset, S. Kasera, M. Buddhikot
{"title":"Spectrum Sharing in CBRS Using Blockchain","authors":"Pavithra Chidambaram Pappa, Aarushi Sarbhai, Aniqua Z. Baset, S. Kasera, M. Buddhikot","doi":"10.1109/MASS50613.2020.00082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MASS50613.2020.00082","url":null,"abstract":"We make a case for using the emerging blockchain technology for spectrum sharing in Citizen’s Broadband Radio Service (CBRS). We show that blockchain can dynamically allocate channels in a transparent and fair manner by achieving distributed channel de-confliction. Furthermore, blockchain helps automate communication between the Spectrum Access Systems (SASs) belonging to competing, non-trusting organizations by providing consensus, while at the same time preserving confidentiality of sensitive information. We implement our CBRS blockchain architecture using the Hyperledger Fabric platform. In order to support high channel request rates, we also develop a novel feature that adaptively pre-processes channel allocation requests at the SAS before sending those to the blockchain network. We evaluate our blockchain solution under different settings and show that it meets the FCC latency requirements. We also analyze the scalability of our system and show that the latency and throughput guarantees can be maintained in scenarios involving multiple organizations.","PeriodicalId":105795,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE 17th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS)","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130526712","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":"NoiseSenseDNN: Modeling DNN for Sensor Data to Mitigate the Effect of Noise in Edge Devices","authors":"Tanmoy Sen, Haiying Shen, Matthew Normansell","doi":"10.1109/MASS50613.2020.00053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MASS50613.2020.00053","url":null,"abstract":"Edge computing usage in many applications, such as transportation and healthcare, has been becoming popular nowadays. These applications often use deep learning (DL) prediction, which are highly dependent on time-series data collected by the sensors in the edge devices. However, the presence of noise in the on-device sensors negatively affects the sensing output of the DL models. Recently proposed time-series based DL approaches (e.g., SADeepSense) address this issue with the assumption that in the presence of noise, the correlation of sensor inputs in an edge device changes. In this paper, through real experiments, we notice that this assumption may not hold true in the presence of shot noise. To handle this problem, in order to further improve the prediction accuracy, we propose a DL model, namely NoiseSenseDNN, which more accurately extracts the correlation between different sensor inputs over time in the presence of both shot and white noise due to its unique architecture. We further propose a compressed version of NoiseSenseDNN that minimizes the inference time and consumed energy of the edge device while meeting the accuracy requirement. Our experiments on a workstation and a real edge device and three real traces show that NoiseSenseDNN outperforms SADeepSense in accuracy, and the compressed NoiseSenseDNN significantly reduces inference time and energy consumption while meeting the required accuracy.","PeriodicalId":105795,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE 17th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132024678","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":"Secure and Privacy-preserving Traffic Monitoring in VANETs","authors":"Ayan Roy, S. Madria","doi":"10.1109/MASS50613.2020.00075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MASS50613.2020.00075","url":null,"abstract":"Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) facilitate vehicles to wirelessly communicate with neighboring vehicles as well as with roadside units (RSUs). However, an attacker can inject inaccurate information within the network that can cause various security and privacy threats, and also disrupt the normal functioning of any traffic monitoring system. Thus, we propose an edge cloud-based privacy-preserving secured decision making model that employs a heuristic based on vehicular data such as GPS location and velocity to authenticate traffic-related information from the ROI under different traffic scenarios. The effectiveness of the proposed model has been validated using VENTOS, SUMO, and Omnet++ simulators, and also, by using a simulated cloud environment. We compare our proposed model to the existing state-of-the-art models under different attack scenarios. We show that our model is effective and capable of filtering data from malicious vehicles, and provide accurate traffic information under the influence of at least one non-malicious vehicle.","PeriodicalId":105795,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE 17th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS)","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131303613","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":"Vehicular Edge Computing Based Driver Recommendation System Using Federated Learning","authors":"Jayant Vyas, Debasis Das, Sajal K. Das","doi":"10.1109/MASS50613.2020.00087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MASS50613.2020.00087","url":null,"abstract":"Driver Stress and Behavior prediction is a significant feature of the Advanced Driver Assistance System. This system can improve driving safety by alerting the driver to the danger of unsafe or risky driving conditions. In this paper, we analyzed historical trip data to calculate the driving stress and its impact on different driving behavior. We used Long Short-Term Memory Fully Convolutional Network to predict the corresponding stress level of the driver. We further established a relationship between stress and driving behavior and developed an intelligent recommendation system for cab companies to recommend the driver for a subsequent trip. To meet the demand for Artificial Intelligence in the Intelligent Transportation System, we leverage Federated Learning in Vehicular Edge Computing in the proposed system architecture. It enables Road Side Units to do all computing of data on it. The model has been tested on the UAH-DriveSet dataset. We observed that the proposed model predicts the stress with an accuracy of 95% and assists in enhancing the driving quality and experience.","PeriodicalId":105795,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE 17th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121127168","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}
Cong Shi, Jian Liu, N. Borodinov, Bruno P. Leao, Yingying Chen
{"title":"Towards Environment-independent Behavior-based User Authentication Using WiFi","authors":"Cong Shi, Jian Liu, N. Borodinov, Bruno P. Leao, Yingying Chen","doi":"10.1109/MASS50613.2020.00086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MASS50613.2020.00086","url":null,"abstract":"With the increasing prevalence of smart mobile and Internet of things (IoT) environments, user authentication has become a critical component for not only preventing unauthorized access to security-sensitive systems but also providing customized services for individual users. Unlike traditional approaches relying on tedious passwords or specialized biometric/wearable sensors, this paper presents a device-free user authentication via daily human behavioral patterns captured by existing WiFi infrastructures. Specifically, our system exploits readily available channel state information (CSI) in WiFi signals to capture unique behavioral biometrics residing in the user’s daily activities, without requiring any dedicated sensors or wearable device attachment. To build such a system, one major challenge is that wireless signals always carry substantial information that is specific to the user’s location and surrounding environment, rendering the trained model less effective when being applied to the data collected in a new location or environment. This issue could lead to significant authentication errors and may quickly ruin the whole system in practice. To disentangle the behavioral biometrics for practical environment-independent user authentication, we propose an end-to-end deep-learning based approach with domain adaptation techniques to remove the environment-and location-specific information contained in the collected WiFi measurements. Extensive experiments in a residential apartment and an office with various scales of user location variations and environmental changes demonstrate the effectiveness and generalizability of the proposed authentication system.","PeriodicalId":105795,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE 17th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS)","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114225239","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}
Shrawani Silwal, V. Raychoudhury, Snehanshu Saha, Md Osman Gani
{"title":"A Dynamic Taxi Ride Sharing System Using Particle Swarm Optimization","authors":"Shrawani Silwal, V. Raychoudhury, Snehanshu Saha, Md Osman Gani","doi":"10.1109/MASS50613.2020.00024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MASS50613.2020.00024","url":null,"abstract":"With the rapid growth of on-demand taxi services, like Uber, Lyft, etc., urban public transportation scenario is shifting towards a personalized transportation choice for most commuters. While taxi rides are comfortable and time efficient, they often lead to higher cost and road congestion due to lower overall occupancy than bigger vehicles. One efficient way to improve taxi occupancy is to adopt ride sharing. Existing ride sharing solutions are mostly centralized and proprietary. Moreover, given the wide spatio-temporal variation of incoming ride requests designing a dynamic and distributed shared-ride scheduling system is NP-hard. In this paper, we have proposed a publisher (passengers) and subscriber (taxis) based ride sharing system that provides effective real-time ride scheduling for multiple passengers. A particle swarm based route optimization strategy has been applied to determine the most preferable route for passengers. Empirical analysis using large scale single-user taxi ride records from Chicago Transit Authority, show that, our proposed system, ensures a maximum of 91.74% and 63.29% overall success rates during non-peak and peak hours, respectively.","PeriodicalId":105795,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE 17th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114772879","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}
Molly Zhang, L. D. Alfaro, M. Mosko, C. Funai, Timothy Upthegrove, B. Thapa, D. Javorsek, J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves
{"title":"Adaptive Policy Tree Algorithm to Approach Collision-Free Transmissions in Slotted ALOHA","authors":"Molly Zhang, L. D. Alfaro, M. Mosko, C. Funai, Timothy Upthegrove, B. Thapa, D. Javorsek, J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves","doi":"10.1109/MASS50613.2020.00027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MASS50613.2020.00027","url":null,"abstract":"A new adaptive transmission protocol is introduced to improve the performance of slotted ALOHA. Nodes use known periodic schedules as base policies with which they collaboratively learn how to transmit periodically in different time slots so that packet collisions are minimized. The Adaptive Policy Tree (APT) algorithm is introduced for this purpose, which results in APT-ALOHA. APT-ALOHA does not require the presence of a central repeater and uses explicit acknowledgements to confirm the reception of packets. It is shown that nodes using APT-ALOHA quickly converge to transmission schedules that are virtually collision-free, and that the throughput of APT-ALOHA resembles that of TDMA, where slots are pre-allocated to nodes. In particular, APT-ALOHA attains a successful utilization of time slots- over 70% on saturation mode.","PeriodicalId":105795,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE 17th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS)","volume":"349 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115888205","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}
Han Zhou, Yi Gao, Wenxin Liu, Yuefang Jiang, Wei Dong
{"title":"Posture Tracking Meets Fitness Coaching: A Two-Phase Optimization Approach with Wearable Devices","authors":"Han Zhou, Yi Gao, Wenxin Liu, Yuefang Jiang, Wei Dong","doi":"10.1109/MASS50613.2020.00070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MASS50613.2020.00070","url":null,"abstract":"Fitness training is becoming an increasingly popular way of maintaining overall health and preventing illness. However, in some cases the training could be risky and fitness-related injuries have increased by 48% in the USA. The training itself will not cause hurt, but if it is performed in a crucial-improper form (using the wrong technique), it will injure the exerciser. Research has explored the potential of using wearables to monitor fitness training, but the consideration of proper/improper form is not included. In this paper, we propose WearCoach, a wearable based fitness training assistant, which acquires the user’s fitness form information and generates real-time feedback during training. WearCoach differs from previous work of training assistant in 1) it employs a two-phase tracking algorithm to achieve accurate and real-time tracking of body motion, 2) it analyzes the captured arm posture and generates training guidance based on the user’s form, 3) it uses joint orientation as an exercise classification feature to improve recognition accuracy. We conducted experiments with eight participants and nine exercises. Three kinds of feedback are generated, including injury alert, movement correction and symmetry analysis.","PeriodicalId":105795,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE 17th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115424322","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}
Zakaria Benomar, F. Longo, Giovanni Merlino, A. Puliafito
{"title":"Enabling Secure RESTful Web Services in IoT using OpenStack","authors":"Zakaria Benomar, F. Longo, Giovanni Merlino, A. Puliafito","doi":"10.1109/MASS50613.2020.00057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MASS50613.2020.00057","url":null,"abstract":"Thanks to the impact of the advancement in the hardware field, the network size and usage scope of the Internet are continuously growing. Indeed, new smart devices, e.g., sensors, actuators, home appliances are becoming strong enough to communicate and exchange data over the Internet. Accordingly, this distributed ecosystem with sensing/actuation capabilities is introducing new market opportunities with innovative services including, e.g., environmental monitoring, traffic monitoring, homes/buildings control. To conceive new IoT services, enabling the smart devices to join the Internet and expose their capabilities/data through the Web is fundamental. For this purpose, Web Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) or what we refer to also as RESTful Web Services is a paradigm that can enhance the IoT application scope by making smart things part of the Web. In this paper, based on our Stack4Things (S4T) Cloud middleware, we introduce a new approach for exposing services running on IoT devices to the Web so that they become reachable using globally resolvable Uniform Resource Locators (URLs). We emphasized security issues as well by implementing, on the devices, an automated mechanism capable of managing X.509 certificates issuance to enable secure communications using Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS).","PeriodicalId":105795,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE 17th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS)","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126177401","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}