{"title":"Optimal Placement of Data Aggregation Points for Smart Metering using Wireless Heterogeneous Networks","authors":"E. Inga, M. Campaña, R. Hincapié, S. Céspedes","doi":"10.1109/COLCOMCON.2018.8466731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COLCOMCON.2018.8466731","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a heuristic model that optimally deploys the resources used to obtain a metropolitan and neighborhood area network with connectivity between the central office of an electricity company and the integrated meters in the homes of the clients-consumers. The presented model is not limited to relax a problem NP-Complete through grouping techniques or search by iterative processes which is the minimum or maximum distance that allows to obtain a feasible mesh that guarantees the connection of the smart meters in a real scenario; on the contrary, the work presents an option that allows reducing investment costs and achieving a heterogeneous wireless network that articulates several options in contrast to the cellular technology that would increase the investment considerably in the advanced measurement infrastructure; additionally, it includes the ability of wireless technology to achieve a long-term deployment that is scalable for the inclusion of new smart meters, but with the lowest cost considering to the minimum number of concentrators or data aggregation points of the initial feasible set determined by the corners where there are public lighting poles. The model achieves routing between smart meters, data aggregation points and cellular base stations that finally connect with the central office.","PeriodicalId":151973,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Colombian Conference on Communications and Computing (COLCOM)","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124558308","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":"Monitoring and irrigation of an urban garden using IoT","authors":"Gabriela Carrion, M. Huerta, B. Barzallo","doi":"10.1109/COLCOMCON.2018.8466722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COLCOMCON.2018.8466722","url":null,"abstract":"The traditional methods used in agriculture often have disadvantages related to consumption, management and conservation of water for irrigation. The emergence of new technologies such as Internet of Things and information management has accelerated the develop of “modern agricuture” by mitigating or at best eliminating the problems mentioned above. In this paper is presented the design and implementation of an embedded system that uses Internet of Things and a set of sensors and actuators to allow the monitoring of climatic variables and irrigation of an urban garden located in the parking facilities of the Universidad Politécnica Salesiana. Sensors measure parameters such as environmental humidity and temperature, soil moisture and temperature, CO2 levels, luminosity and crop presence; processed within an ATMEL microcontroller,which takes decisions for irrigation based on crop requirements. This information is received by the remote server through the WiFi protocol, which stores it in the cloud within a database and sends it to the client computer or mobile device, who will be able to access this data in real time from any location where it has access to the Internet.","PeriodicalId":151973,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Colombian Conference on Communications and Computing (COLCOM)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131018236","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":"Dynamic Gallager-Humblet-Spira Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks","authors":"Sergio Diaz, Diego Mendez, Mario Scholzel","doi":"10.1109/COLCOMCON.2018.8466704","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COLCOMCON.2018.8466704","url":null,"abstract":"The problem of constructing and maintaining a tree topology in a distributed manner is a challenging task in WSNs. This is because the nodes have limited computational and memory resources and the network changes over time. We propose the Dynamic Gallager-Humblet-Spira (D-GHS) algorithm that builds and maintains a minimum spanning tree. To do so, we divide D-GHS into four phases, namely neighbor discovery, tree construction, data collection, and tree maintenance. In the neighbor discovery phase, the nodes collect information about their neighbors and the link quality. In the tree construction, DGHS finds the minimum spanning tree by executing the GallagerHumblet-Spira algorithm. In the data collection phase, the sink roots the minimum spanning tree at itself, and each node sends data packets. In the tree maintenance phase, the nodes repair the tree when communication failures occur. The emulation results show that D-GHS reduces the number of control messages and the energy consumption, at the cost of a slight increase in memory size and convergence time.","PeriodicalId":151973,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Colombian Conference on Communications and Computing (COLCOM)","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129135377","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}
Byron Guanochanga, Rolando Cachipuendo, Walter Fuertes, D. Benítez, T. Toulkeridis, Jenny G. Torres, César Villacís, Freddy Tapia, Fausto Meneses
{"title":"Towards a Real-Time Air Pollution Monitoring Systems Implemented using Wireless Sensor Networks: Preliminary Results","authors":"Byron Guanochanga, Rolando Cachipuendo, Walter Fuertes, D. Benítez, T. Toulkeridis, Jenny G. Torres, César Villacís, Freddy Tapia, Fausto Meneses","doi":"10.1109/COLCOMCON.2018.8466721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COLCOMCON.2018.8466721","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the preliminary results ob- tained towards the development of a Wireless sensor network for monitoring air quality parameters within smart city applications. The system is implemented based on distributed sensor nodes using wireless technology. Several low cost sensors were placed inside a PVC chamber in order to monitor air pollutants concen- trations. To test the system, data samples were obtained around to two cities to determine the CO2 concentration and particulate material levels. Preliminary results suggest that wireless system developed may be used as a low cost tool for air pollution monitoring.","PeriodicalId":151973,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Colombian Conference on Communications and Computing (COLCOM)","volume":"5a 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128199751","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":"Seamless Handoff Management in IEEE 802.11 Networks Using SDN","authors":"Steven Martinez, N. Cardona, J. F. Botero","doi":"10.1109/COLCOMCON.2018.8466702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COLCOMCON.2018.8466702","url":null,"abstract":"The implementation of IEEE 802.11 wireless networks has grown notably in recent years. Handoff management in wireless networks, i.e., transferring an active data session from one cell defined by an access point to another, is a critical function. In IEEE 802.11 networks, this function interrupts mobile users’ connection to the network, ultimately resulting in service disruption. Currently, the Software Defined Networking (SDN) paradigm presents innovations and abstractions in the network architecture that can improve network management in wireless networks. SDN, through Light Virtual Access Point abstraction, enables the network to take control of the handoff process in IEEE 802.11 without network disconnection (seamless handoff) which is not possible in IEEE 802.11 traditional networks. In this paper, we show through experimentation over real network devices that SDN enables to perform the seamless handoff process in IEEE 802.11 without modification to the end user’ s mobile station and completely controlled by the network. We show that it is possible to reduce the handoff delay from one second or more in traditional networks to milliseconds in SDN networks by means of the LVAP abstraction.","PeriodicalId":151973,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Colombian Conference on Communications and Computing (COLCOM)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117145816","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}
Juan Aranda, Mario Schölzel, Diego Mendez, Henry Carrillo
{"title":"An Energy Consumption Model for MultiModal Wireless Sensor Networks based on Wake-up Radio Receivers","authors":"Juan Aranda, Mario Schölzel, Diego Mendez, Henry Carrillo","doi":"10.1109/COLCOMCON.2018.8466728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COLCOMCON.2018.8466728","url":null,"abstract":"Energy consumption is a major concern in Wireless Sensor Networks. A significant waste of energy occurs due to the idle listening and overhearing problems, which are typically avoided by turning off the radio, while no transmission is ongoing. The classical approach for allowing the reception of messages in such situations is to use a low-duty-cycle protocol, and to turn on the radio periodically, which reduces the idle listening problem, but requires timers and usually unnecessary wakeups. A better solution is to turn on the radio only on demand by using a Wake-up Radio Receiver (WuRx). In this paper, an energy model is presented to estimate the energy saving in various multi-hop network topologies under several use cases, when a WuRx is used instead of a classical low-duty-cycling protocol. The presented model also allows for estimating the benefit of various WuRx properties like using addressing or not.","PeriodicalId":151973,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Colombian Conference on Communications and Computing (COLCOM)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131201797","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":"Impact of Metadata Server on a Large Scale File System","authors":"Ripon Patgiri, Sabuzima Nayak, S. Borgohain","doi":"10.1109/COLCOMCON.2018.8466729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COLCOMCON.2018.8466729","url":null,"abstract":"Big Data, the most popular paradigm, consists of a huge set of data. Big Data storage is built using block-store, file system, object-store and/or hybrid of these systems, cohered with metadata. In this paper, we present role of the metadata server (MDS) in a file system for Big Data. The metadata is large in size for Big Data storage system, and therefore, a standalone metadata server (MDS) cannot hold entire metadata of the storage system. Thus, the metadata servers are augmented to form a clustered metadata server. Moreover, the clustered metadata server (MDS) defines the retrieval process of data from the clustered storage media. Besides, the clustered MDS defines the scalability of Big Data storage. In addition, the clustered MDS offers high efficiency and fast accessing of data in a large scale data storage. The size of Big Data is typically Petabytes to Exabytes. Therefore, there is a strong requirement of efficient and effective clustered MDS to define the access mechanism of Big Data storage. In this paper, we sketch the effect of MDS on very large scale file system.","PeriodicalId":151973,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Colombian Conference on Communications and Computing (COLCOM)","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114374588","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}
J. Cortez, C. Gutiérrez, F. Castillo-Soria, J. M. Luna-Rivera, F. M. Maciel-Barboza, Erica Ruiz
{"title":"Performance Evaluation of Spatial Modulation Techniques in Correlated MIMO V2V Channels","authors":"J. Cortez, C. Gutiérrez, F. Castillo-Soria, J. M. Luna-Rivera, F. M. Maciel-Barboza, Erica Ruiz","doi":"10.1109/COLCOMCON.2018.8466338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COLCOMCON.2018.8466338","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the effects of correlated multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels on the performance of spatial modulation (SM) techniques. Bit error rate (BER) performance for SM, quadrature SM (QSM), and generalized QSM transmission schemes over correlated MIMO vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) channels are presented. The results are compared with the conventional spatial multiplexing (SMux) transmission schemes. For all cases, the optimal maximum like-lihood (ML) detection criterion is used to detect the symbols at the receiver. Performace degradation due to the effects of spatial correlation of the MIMO V2V channels are then evaluated. The simulation results show significant degradations when SM techniques operate over correlated MIMO channels. Therefore, it can be concluded that SM techniques are very sensitive to the adverse effects of the propagation channels of modern mobile communication systems such as vehicular communications.","PeriodicalId":151973,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Colombian Conference on Communications and Computing (COLCOM)","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122867400","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}
Jeisson S. Sánchez-Mahecha, S. Céspedes, Javier Bustos-Jiménez
{"title":"QoS Evaluation of the Future High-Efficiency IEEE 802.11ax WLAN Standard","authors":"Jeisson S. Sánchez-Mahecha, S. Céspedes, Javier Bustos-Jiménez","doi":"10.1109/COLCOMCON.2018.8466723","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COLCOMCON.2018.8466723","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, the development of new wireless protocols and standards are an engineering challenge due to the increased demand of Internet services via wireless access networks. Incoming standards, such as the IEEE 802.11ax, aim to improve the availability and performance of the wireless local area networks (WLAN). Recent works related to the development of the IEEE 802.11ax standard are focused on the description and initial performance evaluations of the expected technical improvements; however, there is no evaluation available regarding the QoS improvements that can be achieved with the new features included in the standard. In this work, we present a qualitative evaluation, as well as a set of laboratory and emulation tests aiming to compare current WLAN networks (IEEE 802.11g/n/ac) with the future IEEE 802.11ax networks. Datasets from real wireless scenarios are collected to evaluate QoS metrics in current IEEE 802.11g networks, and the IEEE 802.11ax standard is evaluated via emulation in NS3 with the injection of the same datasets, considering there are no deployments available with the new standard to date. Results show a significant improvement in terms of effective transfer rate (throughput) and round-trip-time (RTT) for the future WLAN networks, which is in line with the huge potential expected with the introduction of the upcoming high efficiency IEEE 802.11ax standard.","PeriodicalId":151973,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Colombian Conference on Communications and Computing (COLCOM)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133143476","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":"Study of Somewhat Homomorphic Encryption Scheme for Image Erosion and Dilation","authors":"Óscar Hurtado-Guarnizo, M. Duarte-González","doi":"10.1109/COLCOMCON.2018.8466717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COLCOMCON.2018.8466717","url":null,"abstract":"Homomorphic encryption schemes emerged as the solution to the problem of secure data processing in the cloud. A fully homomorphic encryption scheme is constructed by using a Bootstrappable somewhat homomorphic encryption scheme, i.e. an encryption scheme that can homomorphically evaluate its own decryption circuit. In this paper, a somewhat homomorphic encryption scheme, based on lattices, is implemented and used for executing morphological operations over encrypted binary images. Moreover, a quantitative study to verify the influence of the implemented scheme’s parameters on the execution times (key generation, encryption, decryption and morphological operations) and on the number of operations that the scheme is able to perform without leaving the decryption radius is performed.","PeriodicalId":151973,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Colombian Conference on Communications and Computing (COLCOM)","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126184587","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}