{"title":"Quantum-Enabled Blockchain for Data Processing and Management in Smart Cities","authors":"Uttam Ghosh, Debashis Das, Pushpita Chatterjee, Sachin Shetty","doi":"10.1109/WoWMoM57956.2023.00075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM57956.2023.00075","url":null,"abstract":"This review article explores the potential of quantum-enabled blockchain technology for distributed data processing and management in smart cities. It provides a comprehensive overview of the current state-of-the-art in both quantum computing and distributed ledger technologies, as well as the challenges facing smart city development. The article discusses how the combination of quantum computing and blockchain technology can address some of these challenges by enabling secure, decentralized, and efficient data processing and management in smart cities. It also highlights the potential benefits of this approach, including increased security, scalability, and transparency, as well as reduced costs and energy consumption. The article examines the various applications of quantum-enabled blockchain technology in smart cities, such as traffic management, energy distribution, and environmental monitoring. Finally, the article discusses the future outlook for this technology and the challenges that must be overcome for it to be successfully implemented in smart cities. Overall, this review article provides a comprehensive and insightful analysis of the potential of quantum-enabled blockchain technology for distributed data processing and management in smart cities, highlighting its potential to transform the way we live, work, and interact in urban environments.","PeriodicalId":132845,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE 24th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129478503","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":"MAPPO-Based Cooperative UAV Trajectory Design with Long-Range Emergency Communications in Disaster Areas","authors":"Yue Guan, Sai Zou, Kai Li, Wei Ni, Bochun Wu","doi":"10.1109/WoWMoM57956.2023.00067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM57956.2023.00067","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the cooperative real-time trajectory design issue for multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to support long-range emergency communications in disaster areas. To quickly restore the communication links between mobile users (MUs) and base stations, UAVs equipped with a radio frequency (RF) module and a free space optical (FSO) module serve as relay nodes. Given the difficulty of setting up a central controller for UAVs and the urgency of emergency communication, the UAV trajectory design issue is formulated as a distributed cooperative optimization problem. A collaborative multi-UAV trajectory design method based on multi-agent proximal policy optimization (MAPPO) is adopted to improve RF/FSO channel throughput. Compared with the state-of-the-art DRL methods, MAPPO can achieve higher RF allocation efficiency and increase the FSO communication backhaul capacity.","PeriodicalId":132845,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE 24th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116689105","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 Intelligent Mechanism for Monitoring and Detecting Intrusions in IoT Devices","authors":"Vitalina Holubenko, Paulo Silva","doi":"10.1109/WoWMoM57956.2023.00082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM57956.2023.00082","url":null,"abstract":"As of recent years, the growth of data processed by devices has been exponential, resulting of the increasing number of Internet of Things devices connected to the Internet, which has come to play a very critical role in many domains, such as smart infrastructures, healthcare, supply chain or transportation. Despite its advantages, the amount of IoT devices has come to serve as a motivation for malicious entities to take advantage of such devices. To deal with potential cyberattacks in IoT devices, Machine Learning techniques can be applied to Intrusion Detection Systems along with Federated Learning to help manage privacy related concerns. Several intrusion detection methods have been proposed in the past, however, there’s a lack of research aimed at HIDS. Furthermore, the focus is mostly on applied ML methods and evaluation and not on real-world deployment of such systems. To tackle this, this work proposes a framework for a lightweight host based intrusion detection system based on system call trace analysis for benign and malicious activity detection. In summary, this work aims to present research about Host Intrusion Detection that could be applied for IoT devices, while leveraging Federated Learning for model updates.","PeriodicalId":132845,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE 24th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)","volume":"28 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133135340","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":"Missing Traffic Speed Data Imputation Using Road Segment Characteristics for Long-Term Traffic Speed Prediction","authors":"Mustafa M. Kara, H. İ. Türkmen, M. A. Güvensan","doi":"10.1109/WoWMoM57956.2023.00080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM57956.2023.00080","url":null,"abstract":"Traffic speed estimation has become one of the challenging difficulties, especially for metropolitan cities in the last decade. On the other hand, sensor failures are still an important problem for data-intensive tasks such as traffic-oriented problems in smart cities. Thus, the absence of traffic speed data considerably decreases the performance of speed estimation algorithms. Following this drawback, we bring a new insight into missing traffic speed data imputation and propose several techniques to fill the gaps caused by traffic speed sensor failures. Our methodology exploits the traffic characteristic of similar segments and replaces the missing values with the existing values of k closest segments with similar characteristics for the corresponding timestamp. The introduced method, a variant of the k-Nearest Neighbor algorithm, achieves a great performance in producing real-like values, especially for long-term traffic speed estimation. Test results show that 3.5% error minimization is possible for predicting traffic speed from 1 to 7 days ahead. We also proved that missing value ratios below 50% could be healed with a negligible prediction error.","PeriodicalId":132845,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE 24th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127673677","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":"Urban Air Mobility Link Budget Analysis in 5G Communication Systems","authors":"Huw Whitworth, Saba Al-Rubaye, A. Tsourdos","doi":"10.1109/WoWMoM57956.2023.00071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM57956.2023.00071","url":null,"abstract":"The fifth generation (5G) technology is expected to play a key role in the development of urban air mobility (UAM). 5G networks have the potential to provide the high-speed, low-latency connectivity needed for UAM vehicles to communicate with each other, with ground stations, and with air traffic management systems. This connectivity is crucial for ensuring safe and efficient operation of UAM vehicles in crowded urban environments. This paper investigate the fundamental requirements for UAM connectivity and provides performance analysis for communication data link between ground station and UAM flying platform in proximity using 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standard concerning atmosphere, rain and Doppler effects. Furthermore, the Quality-of-Service (QoS) performance in terms of latency and throughput have been discussed to complete an overview of the 5G data link communications analysis. To conclude, the integration of 5G technology with UAM has the potential to revolutionize the way people and goods are transported within urban areas, enabling faster, more efficient, and safer transportation.","PeriodicalId":132845,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE 24th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)","volume":"289 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127724145","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":"WIP: Optimizing Solar-powered BLE Beacons for Wildlife Monitoring","authors":"Josef Miller, Mauro Garcia, Baris Aksanli","doi":"10.1109/WoWMoM57956.2023.00048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM57956.2023.00048","url":null,"abstract":"Animal-mounted sensors are one of the existing methods used to monitor the collective behavior of animals in the wild. While they have the benefit of transmitting location data directly from the animal’s position, they have the disadvantage of being bulky and limited in terms of capacity. This paper presents a method to overcome these drawbacks by eliminating battery usage in an outdoor environment through the use of an optimized solar powered beacon. Our goal is to eliminate battery usage while maintaining operational requirements and continuity. Our results show that we can achieve a 2-minute broadcast frequency under various weather and shade conditions, without any application downtime or battery need.","PeriodicalId":132845,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE 24th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131534587","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}
Serkut Ayvaşık, Edwin Babaians, Arled Papa, Y. Deshpande, Alba Jano, W. Kellerer, E. Steinbach
{"title":"Demo: Remote Robot Control with Haptic Feedback over the Munich 5G Research Hub Testbed","authors":"Serkut Ayvaşık, Edwin Babaians, Arled Papa, Y. Deshpande, Alba Jano, W. Kellerer, E. Steinbach","doi":"10.1109/WoWMoM57956.2023.00059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM57956.2023.00059","url":null,"abstract":"Teleoperation of robotic platforms is an emerging area for 5G and beyond 5G communications since reliable bi-directional communication is vital especially to have haptic interaction with the remote environment. This demo presents the teleoperation of a mobile robot with haptic feedback over an end-to-end 5G testbed. The network is deployed only using open-source software projects with Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) software defined radios (SDRs). The human operator will be using a joystick for body movements and a haptic device (3DSystems Touch) for the robot arm while remotely interacting with the mobile robot platform located in Munich.","PeriodicalId":132845,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE 24th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127199658","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":"PoseFly: On-site Pose Parsing of Swarming Drones via 4-in-1 Optical Camera Communication","authors":"Xiao Zhang, Griffin Klevering, Li Xiao","doi":"10.1109/WoWMoM57956.2023.00021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM57956.2023.00021","url":null,"abstract":"Drones are gaining more interest from the industry and the research community as a result of their many advantages, including low cost, small size, adaptability, and ease of use, as well as their potential applications. However, current control of swarming drones relies on stand-alone modes and centralized radio frequency control from a base station on the ground which is devoid of drone-to-drone communication. This method has drawbacks, including a crowded RF spectrum with mutual interference, high latency, and a lack of on-site drone-to-drone interactions. Because of its high spatial multiplexing capability, Line of Sight (LoS) security capabilities, broader bandwidth, and intuitive vision manner, Optical Camera Communication (OCC) is considered to be a potential alternative for sensing and communication in drone clusters. In this paper, we first utilize the rolling shutter effect in drone sensing and communication and propose PoseFly, a 4-in-1 AI-assisted OCC with drone identification, on-site localization, quick-link communication and lighting. We implement PoseFly prototypes on commercial drones, cameras and LEDs. Our experiments show our PoseFly achieves nearly 100% accuracy for distance estimation (20m), drone identification (12m), angle and speed estimation (4m) and 5 Kbps average quick-link throughput at up to 4 m on current prototypes.","PeriodicalId":132845,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE 24th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)","volume":"179 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123050750","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}
Foteini Karetsi, C. Liaskos, S. Ioannidis, E. Papapetrou
{"title":"On the Impact of Coding Depth in Sliding Window Random Linear Network Coding Schemes","authors":"Foteini Karetsi, C. Liaskos, S. Ioannidis, E. Papapetrou","doi":"10.1109/WoWMoM57956.2023.00035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM57956.2023.00035","url":null,"abstract":"Sliding Window Random Linear Network Coding (RLNC) offers a clear path towards achieving ultra-high reliability and low latency at the same time. Such requirements are pivotal for a wide range of applications in the future Internet as well as in 5G and beyond networks. While traditional RLNC has been extensively used for some years now, its Sliding Window flavor is rather recent and extremely promising because of its implementation advantages and the high degree of customization. Probably the most essential parameter of Sliding Window RLNC is the coding depth, i.e., the extent of non-coded packets protected by a coded one. In this work, for the first time, we elaborate on properly choosing the coding depth and shed light on the related trade-offs. We, first, show, experimentally, that significant performance gains can be obtained by fine-tuning the coding depth. Then, we propose and validate an analytical framework that allows us to decide the coding depth based on a channel’s reliability profile. Finally, we introduce a dynamic algorithm that, based on our analytical findings, can improve the performance of sliding window RLNC in the presence of bursts of errors.","PeriodicalId":132845,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE 24th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115291449","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}
Jannis Mast, T. Hänel, Nikolas Wintering, N. Aschenbruck
{"title":"Evaluating Wifibroadcast for Long-Distance UAV-to-Ground Data Transmission","authors":"Jannis Mast, T. Hänel, Nikolas Wintering, N. Aschenbruck","doi":"10.1109/WoWMoM57956.2023.00037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM57956.2023.00037","url":null,"abstract":"Using existing general purpose wireless technologies, it is difficult to transmit large amounts of data from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to a ground station during flight. Thus, there is a demand for specialized solutions. Wifibroadcast proposes a solution for this use case, utilizing a unidirectional and connectionless design to transmit data using unmodified low-cost WiFi hardware. In this paper, we measure and evaluate the performance of Wifibroadcast for UAV to ground transmissions over large distances and provide a direct comparison against standard IEEE 802.11. We demonstrate that Wifibroadcast is able to outperform WiFi in all tested scenarios while identifying specific characteristics, limitations, and requirements of a long-distance transmission on both the 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz frequency bands.","PeriodicalId":132845,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE 24th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)","volume":"350 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128810933","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}