A. Mesodiakaki, F. Adelantado, A. Antonopoulos, E. Kartsakli, L. Alonso, C. Verikoukis
{"title":"Energy impact of outdoor small cell backhaul in green heterogeneous networks","authors":"A. Mesodiakaki, F. Adelantado, A. Antonopoulos, E. Kartsakli, L. Alonso, C. Verikoukis","doi":"10.1109/CAMAD.2014.7033196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CAMAD.2014.7033196","url":null,"abstract":"Small cells (SCs) are expected to be densely deployed during the next few years to enhance the network capacity of future heterogeneous networks (HetNets). Due to their dense deployment, not all SCs are expected to have a direct connection to the core network. As a result, some SCs will forward their traffic to the neighboring SCs until they reach the core network, thus forming a multi-hop backhaul (BH) network. Due to the large number of BH links, the BH is expected to be one of the main challenges that future HetNets will have to face. At the same time, traffic demands are growing exponentially resulting in higher energy consumption. Therefore, how to achieve high network energy efficiency becomes of utmost importance. To that end, in this paper, we study the role of BH in future outdoor HetNets aiming to answer to whether or not it could constitute an energy bottleneck for the HetNet. To gain insights, we study the BH energy consumption impact compared to the access network under different traffic distribution scenarios and BH technologies.","PeriodicalId":111472,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 19th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127574826","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":"Device free patients localization in controlled indoor environments","authors":"M. Faraone, R. Alesii, S. Tennina, F. Graziosi","doi":"10.1109/CAMAD.2014.7033224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CAMAD.2014.7033224","url":null,"abstract":"Novel and more pervasive healthcare technologies foster an increase in the expectancy of life in next decades. In this field, distributed and networked wireless embedded systems, such as Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), suit well with the requirements of ambient care systems, i.e., continuous monitoring of aged or impaired people for their own safety, without affecting their daily activities. In this paper we focus on the problem of knowing the position of people in their own house, without they need to carry any device. Preliminary results of the implementation over a real WSN testbed show good system performances that meet our expectations.","PeriodicalId":111472,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 19th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128688418","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}
Kostas Katsalis, Konstantinos Choumas, T. Korakis, M. Anastasopoulos, A. Tzanakaki, J. Riera, G. Landi
{"title":"Wireless network virtualization: The CONTENT project approach","authors":"Kostas Katsalis, Konstantinos Choumas, T. Korakis, M. Anastasopoulos, A. Tzanakaki, J. Riera, G. Landi","doi":"10.1109/CAMAD.2014.7033212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CAMAD.2014.7033212","url":null,"abstract":"Undoubtedly, SDN has the potential to fundamentally change the way end-to-end networks are provisioned and designed. By introducing programmability into networking, the handling of network changes and network provisioning via open software interfaces has become a reality; together with the hardware/software virtualization advances in server systems and software platforms, cloud services can now be rapidly deployed and efficiently managed. The CONTENT project is an EU funded effort for network and infrastructure virtualization over heterogeneous, wireless and metro optical networks, that can be used to provide end-to-end cloud services. In this work we present the wireless network virtualization solution, in the light of the CONTENT technical approach, where a convergent LTE/Wi-Fi network is virtualized and interconnected with an optical TSON metro network. We present our approach in designing and implementing converged virtual 802.11 and LTE wireless networks and the corresponding efficient wireless data-plane mechanisms required, in order to satisfy strict QoS requirements.","PeriodicalId":111472,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 19th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD)","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130675799","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":"An Heterogeneous wireless networks testbed for Smart Environment scenarios","authors":"S. Melzi, S. Napoli, A. Pollastro, S. Fowler","doi":"10.1109/CAMAD.2014.7033229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CAMAD.2014.7033229","url":null,"abstract":"Smart Environments are environments where heterogeneous wireless networks are implemented and connected together both in terms of networking and in terms of functionalities, thus providing an abstraction layer to higher level applications that can exploit the interplay of such technologies to obtain killer features. In order to obtain real advantages from the integration of heterogeneous components the scenarios shall be clearly understood and analysed;therefore this paper classifies the different scenarios and network architectures that can be employed in creating a Smart Environment. Moreover, real life experimenting is needed, through testbeds and trial installations; our testbed is therefore described, as well as some results on the effects achieved by interconnecting different technologies.","PeriodicalId":111472,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 19th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD)","volume":"140 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116376612","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":"Evaluation of localization methods in millimeter-wave wireless systems","authors":"Hazem El-Sayed, G. Athanasiou, C. Fischione","doi":"10.1109/CAMAD.2014.7033263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CAMAD.2014.7033263","url":null,"abstract":"Millimeter-wave communications are considered as one of the key technologies for enabling multi-gigabit wireless access and bandwidth demanding applications. An increasing number of these applications, such as smart environments, asset tracking, video surveillance, and specialized location based services, require knowledge related to the location of the wireless devices. Due to the special characteristics of millimeter-wave transmissions, such as high path loss attenuation, oxygen absorption, and antenna directivity, it is challenging to achieve accurate localization. In this overview paper, the performance of localization methods over the millimeter-wave medium is compared under realistic conditions. The prominent localization approaches based on received signal strength, time of arrival, and angle of arrival of millimeter-wave signals, are numerically evaluated by an extensive set of Monte Carlo simulations. It is suggested that localization based on angle of arrival is the most promising for millimeter-wave transmissions.","PeriodicalId":111472,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 19th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD)","volume":"168 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121711578","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}
P. Soumplis, P. Papanikolaou, K. Christodoulopoulos, G. Papadimitriou, Emmanouel Varvarigos
{"title":"Energy minimization design of fixed- and flex-grid optical networks","authors":"P. Soumplis, P. Papanikolaou, K. Christodoulopoulos, G. Papadimitriou, Emmanouel Varvarigos","doi":"10.1109/CAMAD.2014.7033219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CAMAD.2014.7033219","url":null,"abstract":"Core networks offer high capacities by harvesting the high bandwidth-distance product of optical technologies. However they consume a non-negligible amount of power, while their traffic volume is forecasted to grow at very high rates for the 10 or 15 coming years. Thus, energy-efficiency in core and metro networks is mandatory for the sustainability of the future Internet. In this context, in this work we used Mantis, our network planning and operation tool, to design and carry out a comparative study of energy efficiency of current and next generation optical networks. In particular, we examined the cases of fixed-grid single-line-rate (SLR) Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) optical networks, which are now deployed in the core, and next-generation mixed-line-rates (MLR) WDM and flex-grid networks. Under realistic network scenarios we profiled the total energy consumption of the optical layer and showed that through energy-aware algorithms we can achieve significant power savings.","PeriodicalId":111472,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 19th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131917616","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}
Vasilis Sourlas, P. Flegkas, P. Georgatsos, L. Tassiulas
{"title":"Cache-aware traffic engineering in Information-Centric Networks","authors":"Vasilis Sourlas, P. Flegkas, P. Georgatsos, L. Tassiulas","doi":"10.1109/CAMAD.2014.7033253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CAMAD.2014.7033253","url":null,"abstract":"The current Internet trends show that what is exchanged is becoming more important than who are exchanging it. As a result, the Internet is effectively moving from interconnecting machines to interconnecting information. Information-Centric Networking (ICN) has been proposed as a paradigm shift from the host-to-host Internet to a host-to-content one, or in other words from an end-to-end communication system to a native distribution network. The added value of the ICN architecture is that it allows Network Service Providers (NSPs) to participate in the actual content delivery, instead of simply being data-agnostic connectivity providers. This paper investigates an intra-domain traffic engineering (TE) approach for ICNs by leveraging the caching/replication of information items at the nodes of the network. Particularly, we present two variations of a distributed, on-line gradient descent type cache management algorithm, designed for ICNs, which re-assigns the information items between the nodes of the network with the aim, either to minimize the average link stress of the network, or to minimize the link stress (min-max) of the most congested link. Both approaches enhance the service capability of the network (high throughput and low latency) and minimizes congestion. Our extensive simulations, using realistic network topologies and synthetic workload generators, show that the proposed algorithms can significantly reduce information items' transfer time and link utilization.","PeriodicalId":111472,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 19th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132223490","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}
F. Guidolin, L. Badia, E. Karipidis, J. Lindblom, M. Zorzi
{"title":"A performance evaluation framework for LTE cellular networks with beamforming","authors":"F. Guidolin, L. Badia, E. Karipidis, J. Lindblom, M. Zorzi","doi":"10.1109/CAMAD.2014.7033248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CAMAD.2014.7033248","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we investigate the practical evaluation of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) capabilities in latest generation cellular networks. The available rate region is analytically derived for 2 transmitter-receiver pairs, each with 2 transmit and 1 receive antennas, and integrated with an evaluation framework developed within the ns3 simulator. Finally, the resulting model is evaluated with a numerical campaign specifically referring to a system compliant with long term evolution (LTE) specifications. Our results not only confirm the validity of the analytical framework, but also quantify the margin between theoretical channel maximum rate and practically achievable throughput in LTE networks exploiting MIMO, and can be employed for integrated evaluations in practical contexts.","PeriodicalId":111472,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 19th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132586179","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}
P. Bithas, Athanasios S. Lioumpas, G. Karagiannidis, B. Sharif
{"title":"Interference minimization in hybrid WiFi/cellular networks","authors":"P. Bithas, Athanasios S. Lioumpas, G. Karagiannidis, B. Sharif","doi":"10.1109/CAMAD.2014.7033234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CAMAD.2014.7033234","url":null,"abstract":"The exploitation of already deployed wireless local area networks (WLAN)s access points (AP)s has attracted considerable attention, as an efficient and practical method to improve the performance of wireless networks. In this paper, we adopt a hybrid accessing approach, where the WLAN APs share their wireless cellular broadband connection with other users. These users will select their serving node based on a certain selection criterion. Thus a challenging research field is originated, where interfering effects and wireless resources limitations play a dominant role. Important performance metrics of the proposed hybrid scheme, including the bit error probability and the ergodic capacity, are theoretically studied and closed form expressions are derived. Numerical results and simulations show that the proposed wireless architecture may offer significant performance gains in the presence of multiple interferers, compared to a conventional cellular network.","PeriodicalId":111472,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 19th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD)","volume":"223 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127630924","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}
H. C. Pöhls, Max Mossinger, Benedikt Petschkuhn, J. Rückert
{"title":"Aggregation and perturbation in practice: Case-study of privacy, accuracy & performance","authors":"H. C. Pöhls, Max Mossinger, Benedikt Petschkuhn, J. Rückert","doi":"10.1109/CAMAD.2014.7033231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CAMAD.2014.7033231","url":null,"abstract":"We analyse accuracy, privacy, compression-ratio and computational overhead of selected aggregation and perturbation methods in the Internet of Things (IoT). We measure over a real-life data set of detailed energy consumption logs of a single family household. We modelled privacy by simple, threshold-driven machine-learning algorithms that extract features of behaviour. The accuracy of those extraction is used as privacy metric. We state for different parameters of the aggregation, reduction and perturbation if the output still allows detections, as this follows the EU's data protection principle of “minimisation”: increased privacy due to less detailed data, but still good enough accuracy for the purpose. The result is that many detections for sensible predictions and intelligent reactions are still possible with lower quality data.","PeriodicalId":111472,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 19th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128475266","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}