{"title":"Effects of cooperation on visible light positioning","authors":"O. Erdem, M. F. Keskin, S. Gezici","doi":"10.1109/BlackSeaCom.2017.8277703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BlackSeaCom.2017.8277703","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, cooperative localization is proposed for visible light systems. The effects of cooperation on the localization accuracy of visible light positioning systems are illustrated based on a Cramér-Rao lower bound expression. The obtained expression is generic for any three-dimensional configuration and covers all possible cooperation scenarios via definitions of connectivity sets. Numerical results are presented to investigate significance of cooperation in various scenarios.","PeriodicalId":126747,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking (BlackSeaCom)","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133246139","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":"Throughput optimization for molecule-as-a-frame communications","authors":"Mustafa Can Gursoy, A. E. Pusane, T. Tuğcu","doi":"10.1109/BlackSeaCom.2017.8277666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BlackSeaCom.2017.8277666","url":null,"abstract":"Molecular communication systems proposed in the literature transmit data by encoding information in the quantity, type, or similar properties of the messenger molecules. This paper focuses on encoding the information in the chemical structure of the messenger molecules so that a complete data frame can be transmitted. Inspired by the frame structure in traditional communication networks, Molecule-as-a-Frame (MaaF) includes a header to allow for frame identifier and destination address bits. The paper shows the existence of a trade-off between the length of the frame identifier and transmit power, and finds the optimal throughput that minimizes the frame error rate.","PeriodicalId":126747,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking (BlackSeaCom)","volume":"53 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120901376","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":"The effect of energy efficiency and spectrum efficiency on bit error rate for unidirectional relay networks","authors":"M. Khalil","doi":"10.1109/BlackSeaCom.2017.8277695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BlackSeaCom.2017.8277695","url":null,"abstract":"A new method to analyze Energy Efficiency (EE) verse Bit Error Rate (BER) in AF relay networks is presented in this paper. In this network, the source transmits signals through flat fading channels to a set of intermediate relay nodes which amplify signals and then forwards them to the destination through other flat fading channels. The proposed EE is derived in a balanced scheme with Spectrum Efficiency (SE), when relay location is considered. Such a balance between EE and SE is achieved by minimizing power consumption. Furthermore, the BER for this balance is analyzed and the relationship between BER and EE is derived. All analytical expressions are validated numerically by simulation.","PeriodicalId":126747,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking (BlackSeaCom)","volume":"520 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131774825","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}
Eylem Erdogan, A. Birol, N. Kabaoğlu, T. Gucluoglu
{"title":"Antenna selection in cognitive AF systems in the presence of mutual primary-secondary interference, limited feedback and imperfect channel estimations","authors":"Eylem Erdogan, A. Birol, N. Kabaoğlu, T. Gucluoglu","doi":"10.1109/BlackSeaCom.2017.8277673","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BlackSeaCom.2017.8277673","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, the impacts of imperfect channel estimations on the performance of cognitive amplify-and-forward (AF) relaying system with antenna selection and mutual primary-secondary interference are investigated. For the considered model, statistical knowledge of the feedback channel is assumed to be available at the secondary system and closed-form and asymptotic outage and ergodic capacity expressions are derived to get insights about important system parameters including primary-secondary interference and impact of channel estimation errors. Theoretical results which are validated by the simulations show that even though antenna selection improves system performance substantially, imperfect channel estimations have detrimental effects on the performance of cognitive relay systems.","PeriodicalId":126747,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking (BlackSeaCom)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133652352","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}
Suayb S. Arslan, Hoa Le, Joseph I. Landman, Turguy Goker
{"title":"OpenMP and POSIX threads implementation of Jerasure 2.0","authors":"Suayb S. Arslan, Hoa Le, Joseph I. Landman, Turguy Goker","doi":"10.1109/BlackSeaCom.2017.8277690","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BlackSeaCom.2017.8277690","url":null,"abstract":"In shared memory multiprocessor architectures, threads can be used to implement parallelism. POSIX threads (pthreads) is a low-level bare-bones programming interface for working with threads. Therefore, we have extremely fine-grained control over thread management (create/join/etc), mutexes, and so on. On the other hand, openMP, as a shared-memory standard, is much higher level and portable interface which makes it easier to use multi-threading capability and obtain satisfactory performance improvements. Since pthreads is more flexible, it helps programmers gain more control on performance optimizations. Jerasure 2.0 erasure coding library has encoding/decoding engines which comprise independent “for” loop iterations and hence possess huge potential for multi-threaded processing. In this short paper, we investigate multi-threaded implementations of encoder/decoder pair of Jerasure 2.0 using two different technologies: OpenMP and pthreads. We constrain our changes to a minimum possible and compare the pure encoding/decoding performance with respect to each other as well as against that of the original single-threaded version by running them on two different server systems.","PeriodicalId":126747,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking (BlackSeaCom)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133978729","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}
G. Suciu, Laurentiu Bezdedeanu, Alexandru Ganaside, Marius Constantin Vochin
{"title":"Space technologies for disaster early warning and management","authors":"G. Suciu, Laurentiu Bezdedeanu, Alexandru Ganaside, Marius Constantin Vochin","doi":"10.1109/BlackSeaCom.2017.8277713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BlackSeaCom.2017.8277713","url":null,"abstract":"Space technologies can measure and forecast the effects of unforeseen disasters that can put in danger both the environment and the population. In particular, space technologies can take care of the risk evaluation, attenuation, and preparation of disaster management. Before implementing this kind of technology at a global scale, there must be an increase of human awareness regarding the possible catastrophes that might occur, build national capacity and develop a solution that is suitable and straight to the needs of the developing world. The purpose of this paper is to propose a conceptual model of disaster early warning and management system using satellite telemetry, and to determine which are the current unsolved issues and future requirements of early warning platforms through the analysis of the present worldwide trends.","PeriodicalId":126747,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking (BlackSeaCom)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127247383","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 practical social relationship-based system for cooperative internet of things operation","authors":"Y. Gadallah, Mostafa el-Tager, Yehia Ismail","doi":"10.1109/BlackSeaCom.2017.8277700","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BlackSeaCom.2017.8277700","url":null,"abstract":"The Internet of Things (IoT) is a relatively new paradigm under which simple devices are allowed to communicate over the Internet with no human intervention, in general. Many studies have been conducted in order to ensure the success of the model on which the IoT has been envisioned. In this study, we devise an architecture under which IoT devices within a certain geographical area can cooperate to achieve some communication goals via exchanging services such as routing and data aggregation, when needed. We use the social relationships among the network objects as the basis for requesting and enabling such services. For this purpose, the architecture allows the definition of several layers of social relations as well as a method for determining these relations and managing them. We then illustrate the practicality of this architecture via simulation experiments and we provide some results based on the experimental scenarios.","PeriodicalId":126747,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking (BlackSeaCom)","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121355447","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":"Power control and resource allocation in TDD-OFDM based femtocell networks with interference","authors":"Mhd Tahssin Altabbaa, Taner Arsan, E. Panayirci","doi":"10.1109/BlackSeaCom.2017.8277705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BlackSeaCom.2017.8277705","url":null,"abstract":"Femtocell technology is a promising solution for different dilemmas in cellular networks. In femtocell power control, the interference experienced by the network is divided into two main tiers according to the type of network whose signal is interfering with another network. In utilizing the functionality of a two-tier network where femtocell technology is deployed, a major challenge is in sharing the frequency resource of a macrocell. This paper proposes an enhanced dynamic algorithm bounded by two constraints to optimize the transmission powers of femtocell users in TDD-OFDM based femtocell networks, taking into consideration rate enhancement of femtocell mobile stations. We compare our algorithm with the macrocell guard system, which allows femtocells to occupy only the subchannels unoccupied by the macrocell.","PeriodicalId":126747,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking (BlackSeaCom)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126747497","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}
Huseyin Birkan Yilmaz, Changmin Lee, Yae Jee Cho, C. Chae
{"title":"A machine learning approach to model the received signal in molecular communications","authors":"Huseyin Birkan Yilmaz, Changmin Lee, Yae Jee Cho, C. Chae","doi":"10.1109/BlackSeaCom.2017.8277667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BlackSeaCom.2017.8277667","url":null,"abstract":"A molecular communication channel is determined by the received signal, which forms the basis for studies that are focusing on modulation, receiver design, capacity, and coding. Therefore, it is crucial to model the number of received molecules until time t. Received signal is modeled analytically when the transmitter is a point and the receiver is an absorbing sphere. Modeling the diffusion-based molecular communication channel with the first-hitting process (i.e., with an absorbing receiver) is an open issue when the transmitter is a reflecting spherical body. In this paper, we utilize the artificial neural networks technique to model the received signal for a spherical transmitter and a perfectly absorbing receiver (i.e., first-hitting process). The proposed technique may be utilized in other studies that assume a spherical transmitter instead of a point transmitter.","PeriodicalId":126747,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking (BlackSeaCom)","volume":"214 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115488665","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":"Space shift keying with full duplex amplify and forward relaying","authors":"Asil Koç, I. Altunbas, E. Başar","doi":"10.1109/BlackSeaCom.2017.8277698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BlackSeaCom.2017.8277698","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we investigate the error performance of space-shift-keying (SSK) with full-duplex (FD) amplify-and-forward (AF) relaying over Rayleigh fading channels in the presence of residual loop interference. In the proposed system, the source and destination nodes are equipped with multiple antennas, while the relay node has a single transmit and receive antenna. An upper-bound for the bit error rate (BER) expression of the system is derived in a closed-form. The accuracy of the analytical results are validated via Monte Carlo type computer simulations. It is revealed that SSK with FD-AF relaying as a spectrum-efficient transmission scheme provides considerable error performance improvement in comparison with the conventional SSK with half-duplex (HD) AF relaying, especially for higher spectral efficiency values.","PeriodicalId":126747,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking (BlackSeaCom)","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131561068","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}