{"title":"Proposal of a base station diversity technique based on TCP performance","authors":"K. Naito, K. Mori, Hideo Kobayashi","doi":"10.1109/WICON.2005.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WICON.2005.27","url":null,"abstract":"The performance of TCP degrades rapidly in wireless communications environment, because TCP misunderstands the segment loss which is occurred by transmission errors as a network congestion. As improvement technique for TCP, we propose a new cellular system. In our proposed system, it supports a base station diversity technique, and a wireless terminal evaluates its own wireless environment and TCP performance. When the received signal power of a wireless terminal is small, the performance of TCP deteriorates under the influence of transmission errors. Then the wireless terminal with small received signal power connects to two or more base stations, in order to maintain the good performance of TCP. And it receives multiple frames of the same data from some base stations, and it performs the maximum likelihood ratio combining and decodes data. It seems that use of a base station diversity is effective also as a provision not only against decrease of received signal power but the fading, and the performance of TCP improve. In this paper, we evaluate the characteristics of TCP in the proposed base station diversity system, and it is shown clearly that the proposed system improves the performance of TCP greatly.","PeriodicalId":146688,"journal":{"name":"First International Conference on Wireless Internet (WICON'05)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126406643","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}
Sergio Armenia, L. Galluccio, A. Leonardi, S. Palazzo
{"title":"Transmission of VoIP traffic in multihop ad hoc IEEE 802.11b networks: experimental results","authors":"Sergio Armenia, L. Galluccio, A. Leonardi, S. Palazzo","doi":"10.1109/WICON.2005.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WICON.2005.34","url":null,"abstract":"In the last decade numerous studies have been carried out into the transmission of VoIP traffic over wireless networks. However, only a few works have addressed the topic of supporting real-time audio applications on multi-hop IEEE 802.11 ad hoc networks from the perspective of simulations and testbeds. This paper presents the results of the implementation of a VoIP testbed on a multihop IEEE 802.11b ad hoc network with stationary hosts. The real-time audio transmission is evaluated using two different multihop routing protocols, AODV and OLSR. The quality of the voice transmission, using different codecs, is measured through different performance metrics such as end-to-end delay, delay jitter and sequence number error.","PeriodicalId":146688,"journal":{"name":"First International Conference on Wireless Internet (WICON'05)","volume":"20 10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131138511","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":"Energy-efficient wakeup scheduling for maximizing lifetime of IEEE 802.15.4 networks","authors":"Diba Mirza, M. Owrang, C. Schurgers","doi":"10.1109/WICON.2005.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WICON.2005.14","url":null,"abstract":"Deployment of wireless ad hoc networks with scarce energy resources necessitates the design of algorithms that maximize the lifespan of the network, sustain connectivity and facilitate easy maintenance. Nodes in an ad hoc network often need to collaborate with each other to maintain network-connectivity or execute a set of tasks in a distributed fashion. They may have variable rates of energy consumption because some nodes perform energy-intensive tasks such as data-aggregation and data-forwarding more than others. These variations cause early energy depletion of certain nodes which impacts both the connectivity and the overall lifetime of the network. In this paper, we propose a scheme that alleviates this problem in low-traffic networks by tuning the energy consumption of a node during periods of inactivity to its energy-expenditure in the active phase. Since nodes are idle for extended periods of time, this compensation proves significant and we show that the lifetime of an IEEE 802.15.4 network improves up to 65% while ensuring that an end-to-end delay constraint is met.","PeriodicalId":146688,"journal":{"name":"First International Conference on Wireless Internet (WICON'05)","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114814901","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 opportunistic scheduler to balance performance measures and energy consumption in wireless networks: design and implementation","authors":"Yu Dong, David K. Y. Yau, John C.S. Lui","doi":"10.1109/WICON.2005.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WICON.2005.8","url":null,"abstract":"Energy management is critical for emerging tiny wireless mobile devices such as sensors and PDAs, which are power limited by the capacity of their batteries. The energy cost of wireless transmission is high, being superlinear in the communication distance. Even an idle node that is turned on but otherwise not engaged in any activity may consume a significant amount of energy. Based on the observation that reduced communication distance between two communicating parties can significantly reduce the energy cost of the communication, we propose a motion prediction algorithm that exploits the movement history of a sender node to predict the likelihood that the node may move closer to the receiver by a given deadline. If the likelihood is high, then the transmission is postponed until the mobile node moves closer to the receiver at a future time. To reduce unproductive energy use by an idle node, we propose a sleep/wakeup algorithm that adoptively puts the node into sleep mode. However, while a mobile node is sleeping, it may miss critical opportunities for position update and motion prediction. The objective of this paper is then to realize an opportunistic scheduler that can balance the energy consumption by an idle system and the performance of motion prediction in saving energy for network transmission. The proposed system has been prototyped on an actual sensor network platform. Experimental results show that our opportunistic scheduler can achieve significant energy savings in terms of both network communication and keeping the system awake as necessary.","PeriodicalId":146688,"journal":{"name":"First International Conference on Wireless Internet (WICON'05)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129928222","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":"TCP-ELN: on the protocol aspects and performance of explicit loss notification for TCP over wireless networks","authors":"G. Buchholcz, T. Ziegler, T. V. Do","doi":"10.1109/WICON.2005.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WICON.2005.31","url":null,"abstract":"Recently many works have been invested to overcome the low performance of TCP in wireless environments. These proposals are hardly adaptable in real networks due to high resource demand, non scalability and difficulties in their implementation. In this paper we propose a new technique that besides of allowing TCP to improve its performance also takes applicability into account. Our solution is based on the idea of explicit loss notification (ELN) to notify the sender about packet losses on the wireless channel. We evaluate the performance of TCP-ELN with different kind of traffic and error models. Simulation results show that ELN significantly improves the efficiency and fairness performance of TCP for FTP-like and Web-like traffic.","PeriodicalId":146688,"journal":{"name":"First International Conference on Wireless Internet (WICON'05)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128274095","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}
A. D. Stefano, Alessandro Scaglione, G. Terrazzino, I. Tinnirello, V. Ammirata, L. Scalia, G. Bianchi, Giuseppe Costantino Giaconia
{"title":"On the fidelity of IEEE 802.11 commercial cards","authors":"A. D. Stefano, Alessandro Scaglione, G. Terrazzino, I. Tinnirello, V. Ammirata, L. Scalia, G. Bianchi, Giuseppe Costantino Giaconia","doi":"10.1109/WICON.2005.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WICON.2005.23","url":null,"abstract":"The IEEE 802.11 DCF protocol is known to be fair in terms of long-term resource repartition among the contending stations. However, when considering real scenarios, where commercial 802.11 cards interact, very unpredictable as well as sometimes surprising behaviors emerge. Motivation of this paper is to investigate the reasons of the very evident disagreement between the theoretical IEEE 802.11 DCF protocol models and its practical implementations. In particular, we try to characterize the card behavior not only in terms of perceived throughput, but also in terms of low-level channel access operations. In fact, the simple throughput analysis does not allow to identify what affecting parameters, both in terms of transceivers architectures and MAC layer deployments, determine the performance differentiation among the cards. To this purpose, we implemented a tunable DCF network card, in which all MAC parameters are programmable and all the baseband signals are available, and we used this card as a probe instrument. We registered the low-level access operations of commercial cards in terms of access times revealed by the carrier sense function of our probe card. By comparing these times, we surprisingly proved that the most evident performance differences are not due to PHY layer issues, but to the MAC implementations, which often seem to do not respect the standard specifications.","PeriodicalId":146688,"journal":{"name":"First International Conference on Wireless Internet (WICON'05)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127126258","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":"Optimized multicast based on multipoint relaying","authors":"S. Cho, C. Adjih","doi":"10.1109/WICON.2005.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WICON.2005.25","url":null,"abstract":"Applications requiring the use of multicast such as military battlefield communication, rescue operations, conferencing, multi-user games, and context-aware applications, are becoming increasingly successful. To ensure broad popularization of these applications, they should be available regardless of time and place. Because wireless mobile ad hoc networks can automatically create a wide wireless network, which can extend an existing wired network, they are an ideal solution to support this concept of multicast, anytime, anywhere. To provide multicast services for mobile ad hoc networks, many protocols have been proposed. Their internal mechanisms are different but all protocols strive to achieve the same goal: efficient and reliable multicast packet delivery. However, there is often a trade-off between reliability and efficiency. Indeed, multicast packet delivery paths tend to become fragile with respect to mobility when they are optimized for bandwidth and become inefficient with respect to bandwidth when designed to be resilient to mobility. To improve the trade-off between efficiency and reliability, we use MPRs (multi point relays), the basic mechanism of OLSR for optimization, OLSR being one the main RFC in IETF Manet WG. Our approach is to build multicast delivery paths using MPRs to transmit multicast packets from multicast source to group members. Extensive simulation results shows that the proposed algorithm improves the reliability of multicasting without degrading noticeably the efficiency.","PeriodicalId":146688,"journal":{"name":"First International Conference on Wireless Internet (WICON'05)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127743392","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}
T. Janevski, A. Tudzarov, P. Stojanovski, D. Temkov, G. Stojanov, D. Kantardziev, M. Pavlovski, T. Bogdanov
{"title":"Interworking of cellular networks and hotspot wireless LANs via integrated accounting system","authors":"T. Janevski, A. Tudzarov, P. Stojanovski, D. Temkov, G. Stojanov, D. Kantardziev, M. Pavlovski, T. Bogdanov","doi":"10.1109/WICON.2005.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WICON.2005.17","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we propose and describe a solution for interworking of cellular networks and hotspot wireless LANs. The integration between the two types of networks, cellular and WLAN, is performed on the Authentication, Authorization and Accounting i.e., AAA side. For that purpose we have developed WLAN access controller and WLAN AAA gateway, which provide gateway-type access control as well as charging and billing functionalities for the WLAN service. In the development process of these elements we have considered current development stadium of all needed network entities and protocols. The developed solution provides cost-effective and easy-to-deploy PLMN-WLAN internetworking scenario.","PeriodicalId":146688,"journal":{"name":"First International Conference on Wireless Internet (WICON'05)","volume":"83 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127973796","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 comparison of HTB based channel-aware schedulers for 802.11 systems","authors":"R. Garroppo, S. Giordano, S. Lucetti, G. Risi","doi":"10.1109/WICON.2005.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WICON.2005.1","url":null,"abstract":"The 802.11 commercial devices adopt a simple FIFO scheduler, which does not allow to isolate flows addressed to different destinations. This characteristic leads to the well-known performance anomaly of 802.11: when one or more STAs experiment poor radio channel conditions, they increase the time spent to transmit a single packet leading to an inefficient use of the shared medium. These phenomena have as a consequence the worsening of the performance of all the STAs sharing the wireless medium independently of their radio channel conditions. In this scenario, the paper proposes an architecture for a scheduling algorithm to implement in the AP for the downlink traffic, based on Hierarchical Token Bucket (HTB). The peculiarity of the proposed architecture is its ability to take into account, besides the transport service class required by the destination user, the channel quality experimented by the destination mobile STAtion (STA). Starting from this architecture two scheduling schemes are then proposed: the wireless HTB (WHTB) and the time-based WHTB (TWHTB). Both schemes are implemented in a prototype of AP. Hence, the performance of the proposed scheduling algorithms are experimentally evaluated and compared with those obtained with standard scheduling algorithm, which do not take into account information on channel quality. Finally, the paper presents a comparison in terms of implementation issues highlighted by the two proposed schemes, during the developing phase and the experimental analysis.","PeriodicalId":146688,"journal":{"name":"First International Conference on Wireless Internet (WICON'05)","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127079247","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 cross-layer optimization framework for multicast in multi-hop wireless networks","authors":"Jun Yuan, Zongpeng Li, Wei Yu, Baochun Li","doi":"10.1109/WICON.2005.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WICON.2005.2","url":null,"abstract":"Achieving optimal transmission throughput in data networks is known as a fundamental but hard problem. The situation is exacerbated in multi-hop wireless networks due to the interference among local wireless transmissions. In this paper, we propose a general modeling and solution framework for the throughput optimization problem in wireless networks. In our framework, data routing, wireless medium contention and network coding are jointly considered to achieve the optimal network performance. The primal-dual solution method in the framework represents a cross-layer optimization approach. It decomposes the original problem into data routing sub-problems at the network layer, and power allocation sub-problems at the physical layer. Various effective solutions are discussed for each sub-problem, verifying that our framework may handle the throughput optimization problem in an efficient and distributed fashion for a broad range of wireless network scenarios.","PeriodicalId":146688,"journal":{"name":"First International Conference on Wireless Internet (WICON'05)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122228805","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}