Dantong Liu, Yue Chen, K. K. Chai, Tiankui Zhang, Chengkang Pan
{"title":"Adaptive user association in HetNets with renewable energy powered base stations","authors":"Dantong Liu, Yue Chen, K. K. Chai, Tiankui Zhang, Chengkang Pan","doi":"10.1109/ICT.2014.6845087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICT.2014.6845087","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose adaptive user association in the Heterogeneous Networks (HetNets) with renewable energy powered base stations (BSs), where all the BSs are assumed solely powered by the harvested energy from the renewable energy sources. BSs across tiers differ in terms of energy harvesting rate, maximum transmit power and deployment density. In conventional grid-powered HetNets, user association is determined based on the assumption that all the BSs can transmit with constant powers, whereas the transmit powers of BSs vary in the HetNets with renewable energy powered BSs. The adaptive user association is formulated as an optimization problem which aims to maximize the number of accepted user equipments (UEs) and minimize the radio resource consumption in the scenario where the available energy of BSs is dependent on the harvested energy in a certain period of time. We first propose an optimal offline algorithm, where the gradient descent method is used to achieve the pseudo-optimal user association solution. The performance of proposed gradient descent based user association algorithm is verified by simulation results. Considering practical implementation, we further propose a heuristic online user association algorithm which is capable of making timely user association decision for the incoming UEs based on remaining available network resources. Simulation result indicates the proposed online algorithm achieves good tradeoff between UEs acceptance ratio and association delay.","PeriodicalId":154328,"journal":{"name":"2014 21st International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT)","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115946404","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}
Lu Yu, Tiankui Zhang, Chunyan Feng, Yao Lu, Xiao Han
{"title":"Symbol error rate comparisons of star MQAM schemes based on equal cubic metric","authors":"Lu Yu, Tiankui Zhang, Chunyan Feng, Yao Lu, Xiao Han","doi":"10.1109/ICT.2014.6845141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICT.2014.6845141","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present several schemes of N rings star M-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (NR-MQAM) with independent bit mapping. The theoretical expression of symbol error rate (SER) for NR-MQAM is derived and compared with that of cross or square MQAM. For NR-MQAM, the ring ratio is selected based on the principle that its cubic metric (CM) value is equal to that of cross or square MQAM. The theoretical SER curves and numerical simulation results show that 4R-32QAM, 8R-64QAM and 8R-256QAM have a lower SER and stronger ability to resist the phase errors than other 32QAMs, 64QAMs and 256QAMs. The validity of simulated results is demonstrated by the minimum Euclidean distance.","PeriodicalId":154328,"journal":{"name":"2014 21st International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125282104","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":"Optimizing packet scheduling decisions with network coding","authors":"Jin Wang, T. Chai, L. Wong","doi":"10.1109/ICT.2014.6845081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICT.2014.6845081","url":null,"abstract":"Network coding techniques are usually applied upon network layer protocols to improve throughput in wireless networks. However, the packet scheduling algorithm has long been neglected. With proper scheduling, bottleneck nodes can clear their packet queue faster than a vanilla round-robin scheduling algorithm. Therefore, a higher Coding+MAC gain can be achieved. In this paper, we formulate the scheduling problem and propose a search algorithm to find the optimal solution. A pruning rule and an approximation scheme are proposed to reduce the amount of search branches, and hence to improve the time performance. Results show that the algorithm can improve the throughput gain as compared to round-robin scheduling. The throughput gain is most conspicuous when the network is almost but not saturated.","PeriodicalId":154328,"journal":{"name":"2014 21st International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114295324","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 low-complexity resource allocation scheme using AMC for MIMO-OFDMA systems","authors":"W. B. Hassen, Mériem Afif, S. Tabbane","doi":"10.1109/ICT.2014.6845100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICT.2014.6845100","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we address the resource allocation problem in down-link transmission of MIMO-OFDMA systems. We aim at maximizing the total system capacity. The optimization problem is divided into sub-optimal ones in order to reduce the computing complexity. Firstly, a Physical Resource Block (PRB) allocation algorithm based on a recursive function is developed. Secondly, a power allocation procedure is performed. As all PRBs allocated to the same user must use the same Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) according to LTE specification, the power optimization sub-problem includes three steps: power allocation among PRBs (PAaPRB), power allocation among antennas (PAaA) and power allocation among users (PAaU). Simulation results show that our proposed method maximizes the total system capacity with a low-complexity in the case of loaded systems compared to well-known algorithms.","PeriodicalId":154328,"journal":{"name":"2014 21st International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT)","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122213175","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":"QoS-aware energy-efficient power control in two-tier femtocell networks based on Q-learning","authors":"Zhicai Zhang, X. Wen, Zhengfu Li, Shenghua He, Wenpeng Jing, Jun Zhao","doi":"10.1109/ICT.2014.6845130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICT.2014.6845130","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the time-varying nature of wireless channels, deterministic quality of service (QoS) is hard to guarantee in wireless networks. In this paper, by integrating information theory with the principle of effective capacity, we formulate an energy efficiency optimization problem with statistical QoS guarantee in the uplink of two-tier femtocell networks. To solve the problem, we introduce a Q-learning mechanism based on Stackelberg game framework, in which macro-user acts as a leader, and knows all femto-users' transmit power strategy; while femto-users are followers, and only communicate with macrocell base station (MBS) not with other femtocell base stations (FBS). In Stackelberg game studying procedure, macro-user selects transmit power level firstly based on the best responses of femto-users, femto-users interact with environment directly, and find their best responses. At last, a distributed Q-learning algorithm is proposed. Simulation results show the proposed algorithm has a better performance in terms of convergence speed while providing delay QoS provisioning.","PeriodicalId":154328,"journal":{"name":"2014 21st International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116896481","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}
Nuan van der Neut, B. T. Maharaj, Frederick H. de Lange, Gustavo J. González, F. Gregorio, J. Cousseau
{"title":"PAPR reduction in FBMC systems using a smart gradient-project active constellation extension method","authors":"Nuan van der Neut, B. T. Maharaj, Frederick H. de Lange, Gustavo J. González, F. Gregorio, J. Cousseau","doi":"10.1109/ICT.2014.6845095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICT.2014.6845095","url":null,"abstract":"The filter bank multicarrier (FBMC) modulation scheme has recently seen renewed interest and is being considered as a viable alternative to orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). FBMC, however suffers from the same high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) drawback as OFDM systems. Conventional OFDM PAPR reduction techniques cannot be directly applied to FBMC due to the overlapping nature of FBMC symbols. A novel technique is proposed based on an evolution of the smart-gradient project active constellation extension (SGP-ACE) PAPR reduction method used for OFDM systems, namely the FBMC SGP-ACE method. The proposed method is applied to a set of contiguous FBMC symbols, thereby compensating for the overlapping nature of FBMC modulation. The proposed method requires less iterations than a projection-onto-convex-sets (POCS) ACE approach to converge to a lower PAPR and significant reduction in complexity can be achieved as opposed to current FBMC PAPR reduction techniques which tend to require the addition of advanced signal processing. The proposed FBMC SGP-ACE method outperforms a conventional FBMC POCS-ACE method by 2.6dB in PAPR reduction at a clip probability of 10-4 on the 1st iteration.","PeriodicalId":154328,"journal":{"name":"2014 21st International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT)","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128000014","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":"Concurrent mobility load balancing in LTE self-organized networks","authors":"Chungang Yang","doi":"10.1109/ICT.2014.6845125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICT.2014.6845125","url":null,"abstract":"Mobility load balancing (MLB) is an important use case in the long term evolution (LTE) self-optimized networks (SON). To combat the potential Ping-Pong load transfer and low convergence issues, we propose a concurrent MLB (CLB) scheme to solve out the asymmetry traffic distribution among multiple cells and the potential hidden-cell problem. CLB is implemented among multiple source and target cells, which can be regarded as a load redistribution game among them. Here, source cells are referred to as the sellers since they have excess load, and target cells as the buyers since they can absorb more load from the sellers. However, the gaming implementation complexity of such CLB is very high and the overhead is too heavy due to onetime trigger of CLB always involving multiple cells. Also, this situation is further challenged by the large-scale deployment of multiple cells in a specific region. Therefore, we further propose an irregular CLB (termed as ICLB) scheme, which overcomes the shortage of CLB of all associated cells who taking part. For ICLB, we denote the cell selection mechanism in detail. Simulation results show that both CLB and ICLB algorithms can overcome Ping-Pong load balancing problem. Meanwhile, the load distribution is more balancing than that of conventional MLB, and the performance of average blocking probability and the number of unsatisfied users are improved significantly.","PeriodicalId":154328,"journal":{"name":"2014 21st International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT)","volume":"298 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122504159","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. Derhab, A. Bouras, F. B. Muhaya, M. Khan, Yang Xiang
{"title":"Spam Trapping System: Novel security framework to fight against spam botnets","authors":"A. Derhab, A. Bouras, F. B. Muhaya, M. Khan, Yang Xiang","doi":"10.1109/ICT.2014.6845160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICT.2014.6845160","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we inspire from two analogies: the warfare kill zone and the airport check-in system, to tackle the issue of spam botnet detection. We add a new line of defense to the defense-in-depth model called the third line. This line is represented by a security framework, named the Spam Trapping System (STS) and adopts the prevent-then-detect approach to fight against spam botnets. The framework exploits the application sandboxing principle to prevent the spam from going out of the host and detect the corresponding malware bot. We show that the proposed framework can ensure better security against malware bots. In addition, an analytical study demonstrates that the framework offers optimal performance in terms of detection time and computational cost in comparison to intrusion detection systems based on static and dynamic analysis.","PeriodicalId":154328,"journal":{"name":"2014 21st International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT)","volume":"162 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131866858","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":"Polarization-enabled spectrum opportunities made practical: Polarization Mode Dispersion and learning-throughput tradeoff","authors":"Dongming Li, Caili Guo, Xiaolin Lin, Rong Qiao","doi":"10.1109/ICT.2014.6845120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICT.2014.6845120","url":null,"abstract":"Polarization-enabled Spectrum Sharing (PSS) that exploits the spectrum opportunities in polarization domain is deployed to balance between avoiding interference at the incumbent receiver and optimizing the throughput of secondary user. However, when it comes to wideband environments, PSS is impaired by the frequency-dependent Polarization Mode Dispersion (PMD) effect, thus the spectrum efficiency of PSS drops. Different from previous studies on PSS without taking the frequency-dependent depolarization effect into consideration, this work firstly analyzes the PMD effect and then proposes a cluster-based PSS approach to enable PSS on a narrower frequency span for LTE user. Since the width of the frequency span impacts both the environment learning time overhead and the PMD effect suffered by PSS, we analytically incorporate the PMD effect into LTE throughput and the interference at the incumbent receiver. By this means, the optimal number of subcarriers is derived to maximize the effective throughput for LTE users, subject to the interference power constraint at the incumbent receiver.","PeriodicalId":154328,"journal":{"name":"2014 21st International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT)","volume":"234 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120941869","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":"Comparison of LED and RSOA performance in WDM-PONs","authors":"Luiz Fernando Henning, P. Monteiro, A. Pohl","doi":"10.1109/ICT.2014.6845093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICT.2014.6845093","url":null,"abstract":"Currently there is an significant effort by system operators to deploy cost effective Passive Optical Networks (PON). In this way, next generation PON is the subject of studies by researchers and system designers. Among them, Wavelength Division Multiplexing in Passive Optical Networks (WDM-PON) are of particular interest once they can provide larger capacity. This work presents a performance and cost comparison of two colourless optical network units (ONU) configurations that employ a Light Emitting Diode (LED) source and a reflective semiconductor optical amplifier (RSOA).","PeriodicalId":154328,"journal":{"name":"2014 21st International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130288777","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}