{"title":"Recouping opportunistic gain in dense base station layouts through energy-aware user cooperation","authors":"Qing Wang, Balaji Rengarajan","doi":"10.1109/WoWMoM.2013.6583397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM.2013.6583397","url":null,"abstract":"To meet the increasing demand for wireless capacity, future networks are likely to consist of dense layouts of small cells. Thus, the number of concurrent users served by each base station (BS) is likely to be small which results in diminished gains from opportunistic scheduling, particularly under dynamic traffic loads. We propose user-initiated BS-transparent traffic spreading that leverages user-to-user communication to increase BS scheduling flexibility. The proposed scheme is able to increase opportunistic gains and improve user performance. For a specified tradeoff between performance and power expenditure, we characterize the optimal policy by modeling the system as a Markov decision process and also present a heuristic algorithm that yields significant performance gains. Our simulations show that, in the performance-centric case, average file transfer delays are lowered by up to 20% even in homogeneous scenarios, and up to 50% with heterogeneous users. Further, we show that the bulk of the performance improvement can be achieved with a small increase in power expenditure, e.g., in an energy-sensitive case, up to 78% of the performance improvement can be typically achieved at only 20% of the power expenditure of the performance-centric case.","PeriodicalId":158378,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 14th International Symposium on \"A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks\" (WoWMoM)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114384561","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":"Characterization of wireless propagation in complex indoor scenarios","authors":"Leire Azpilicueta Fernandez de las Heras","doi":"10.1109/WoWMoM.2013.6583424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM.2013.6583424","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, the characteristics radiopropagation of wireless systems within complex indoor scenarios is presented. An analysis of the physical radio channel propagation inside different complex indoor scenarios is presented based on three-dimensional ray launching in house code. The influence of topology as well as morphology of complex indoor scenarios in the deployment of wireless sensor networks and wireless systems is analyzed. The use of adequate radioplanning strategies lead to optimal wireless network deployments in terms of capacity, quality of service, and reduced power consumption.","PeriodicalId":158378,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 14th International Symposium on \"A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks\" (WoWMoM)","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126044223","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":"Optimising QoS of VoIP over wireless LANs via synchronized time","authors":"Padraig O. Flaithearta, H. Melvin, M. Schukat","doi":"10.1109/WoWMoM.2013.6583421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM.2013.6583421","url":null,"abstract":"In the existing IEEE 802.11e standard, all VoIP sessions contend within the same prioritization Access Category (AC), despite potentially having very different, and varying one-way (M2E - Mouth to Ear) delays. In this paper we show how VoIP endpoints that are time synchronized can help optimize 802.11e EDCA in order to prioritize VoIP sessions that have relatively large M2E delays and thus distinguish between VoIP sessions. Using the NS-3 Network Simulator, we quantify the benefits achievable through synchronization of an 802.11e network handling multiple VoIP calls in the presence of other TCP traffic.","PeriodicalId":158378,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 14th International Symposium on \"A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks\" (WoWMoM)","volume":"141 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123775114","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}
M. A. Santos, Jose Miguel Villalón Millán, L. Orozco-Barbosa, L. Janowski
{"title":"On the design of robust and adaptive IEEE 802.11 multicast services for video transmissions","authors":"M. A. Santos, Jose Miguel Villalón Millán, L. Orozco-Barbosa, L. Janowski","doi":"10.1109/WoWMoM.2013.6583508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM.2013.6583508","url":null,"abstract":"Video communications require the use of networks capable of optimally allocating resources and adapting dynamically themselves to the changing operating conditions. When a video stream has to be delivered to various receivers, the appropriate service to accomplish the delivery process is the multicast communication service. In the particular case of the widely used IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs (WLANs), the multicast service is simply specified as an unreliable broadcasting service, i.e., it does not include any error recovery mechanism. The absence of feedback from the receivers does not only prevent the sender from taking proper action to recover the corrupted packets, but it also makes unfeasible the implementation of a channel rate adaptation mechanism as the one used by the IEEE 802.11 unicast service. The absence of such mechanism may render the multicast service useless if the channel conditions are so that it makes unreliable the delivery process of the multicast traffic. Even though the IEEE has been working on an amendment to the standard specifying the operation of various error recovery mechanisms for the multicast service, these services have not been designed to support any rate adaptation mechanism. In this paper, we present a novel auto rate selection multicast mechanism, whose design is based on the collision prevention to increase the reliability. We have developed QoS and QoE evaluations via simulation, demonstrating that our proposal outperforms the video quality perceived by the end-user.","PeriodicalId":158378,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 14th International Symposium on \"A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks\" (WoWMoM)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123286939","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 Cluster-Aware Soft Frequency Reuse scheme for inter-cell interference mitigation in LTE based femtocell networks","authors":"Kuheli Louha, Hailong Li, D. Agrawal","doi":"10.1109/WoWMoM.2013.6583436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM.2013.6583436","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the requirement for extensive coverage, Long Term Evolution (LTE) has developed small cellular base stations called femtocells that can dramatically improve voice and data coverage for the indoor subscribers. However, limited spectrum availability in the cellular networks causes severe interference issues in the neighboring femtocell users transmitting in the same radio band. In densely deployed environments, interference problems in co-channel femtocell networks causes significant degradation in performance. In this paper, we propose a Cluster-Aware Soft Frequency Reuse (CASFR) scheme, that assigns distinct set of Physical Resource Blocks (PRB)s to each interfering femtocells. The scheme first uses periodic messages from the femto-user (FUE) to identify the interfering femtocells. It then divides each femtocell area into cell-center and cell-edge. Finally, it uses the CASFR algorithm to assign un-interfering sets of PRBs to the cell-center and cell-edge users of all the interfering femtocells. We also proposed a PRB Swapping and Exchange (PSE) algorithm for the uplink to further reduce any interference that may remain after performing CASFR. The simulation results show 14% decrease in the Inter Cell Interference (ICI) levels in the femto users, thereby increasing their average throughput by 25%.","PeriodicalId":158378,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 14th International Symposium on \"A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks\" (WoWMoM)","volume":"33 7-8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131753180","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":"Spatial correlation model for heterogeneous cameras in wireless multimedia sensor networks","authors":"M. Mowafi, F. Awad, Walid A. Y. Aljoby","doi":"10.1109/WoWMoM.2013.6583412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM.2013.6583412","url":null,"abstract":"Collaborative in-network processing has shown to efficiently reduce the per-node processing and transmission requirements in wireless multimedia sensor networks. When the camera nodes are randomly distributed in an area of interest, it is very likely that their fields of view would overlap causing the corresponding visual information to be highly correlated. In applied wireless multimedia sensor networks, heterogeneous camera nodes with different sensing radii and angles of view are usually deployed, which has shown to enhance the overall network performance and lifetime. This paper introduces a new correlation model to exploit the correlation characteristics among heterogeneous camera nodes for wireless multimedia sensor networks. The proposed model, of which a closed-form analytical correlation function was derived, takes into consideration different sensing parameters of the camera nodes; such as the sensing radii and the angles of view. The simulation results demonstrated that the proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art in terms of the accuracy of estimating the correlation characteristics, the information gain, and the distortion ratio.","PeriodicalId":158378,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 14th International Symposium on \"A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks\" (WoWMoM)","volume":"33 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120922153","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":"Personalised 3D navigation and understanding of Geo-referenced Scenes","authors":"N. Doulamis, Christos Yiakoumettis, G. Miaoulis","doi":"10.1109/WoWMoM.2013.6583497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM.2013.6583497","url":null,"abstract":"Google Maps and Google Earth were milestones in the evolution of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). A new era of 3D virtual geo-referenced worlds began. The need of exploration and creation personalized virtual tours is imperative. This work implements a best viewing algorithm for presenting a 3D model by considering both semantic and geometric features of the 3D model. The camera trajectory is estimated by respecting the user's preferences using a personalized entropy-based measurement. Moreover the camera speed is adjusted properly based on the complexity of the projected view of the model.","PeriodicalId":158378,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 14th International Symposium on \"A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks\" (WoWMoM)","volume":"12 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116437647","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}
Arno Barzan, B. Bonné, P. Quax, W. Lamotte, Mathias Versichele, N. Weghe
{"title":"A comparative simulation of opportunistic routing protocols using realistic mobility data obtained from mass events","authors":"Arno Barzan, B. Bonné, P. Quax, W. Lamotte, Mathias Versichele, N. Weghe","doi":"10.1109/WoWMoM.2013.6583438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM.2013.6583438","url":null,"abstract":"Large crowds at music festivals or other mass events create challenging environments for traditional infrastructure based wireless networks. Mobile devices carried by the attendees produce large amounts of network traffic that can result in network outage or serious delays. Opportunistic networks may offer solutions to enable communication between attendees and/or organizers through direct communication between devices, without requiring a fixed infrastructure. In previous work, researchers have developed numerous opportunistic routing protocols designed to enable communication in such ad hoc networks. In this paper, several of these protocols are evaluated for the specific use case of a music festival by running simulations that make use of realistic mobility data collected during an international music festival. This analysis allows for identification of candidate routing protocols that exhibit properties that make them suitable for the envisaged scenario. The goal is to narrow down the set of candidate protocols and to eventually fine tune them to optimize their working. Based on the simulations, we propose two candidate routing protocols that are most suited for use at mass events.","PeriodicalId":158378,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 14th International Symposium on \"A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks\" (WoWMoM)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131039347","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":"Performance evaluation of the IEEE 802.11aa multicast mechanisms for video streaming","authors":"A. D. Oliva, P. Serrano, P. Salvador, A. Banchs","doi":"10.1109/WoWMoM.2013.6583394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM.2013.6583394","url":null,"abstract":"Video traffic is foreseen to account for the majority of the Internet traffic in the near future. While the demand of video transmission keeps growing, the vast majority of wireless equipment deployed in the home environment, based on IEEE 802.11, cannot satisfy the amount of bandwidth that the video applications require. In order to cope with the increasing demand of multimedia traffic, the IEEE 802.11aa Task Group has recently standardized new mechanisms to allow efficient and robust transmission of multicast flows in Wireless LAN. However, the standard leaves open the choice of which one to use for a given scenario. In this paper, we explore the new mechanisms introduced by the 802.11aa Task Group, providing insights of the new choices for handling group addressed frames, by carrying out extensive simulations. Our results highlight the various trade-offs each mechanism has in terms of robustness, resource consumption and complexity, and provide a set of recommended guidelines for their use.","PeriodicalId":158378,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 14th International Symposium on \"A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks\" (WoWMoM)","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133908493","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":"Autonomic cognitive-based data dissemination in Opportunistic Networks","authors":"L. Valerio, M. Conti, E. Pagani, A. Passarella","doi":"10.1109/WOWMOM.2013.6583379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WOWMOM.2013.6583379","url":null,"abstract":"Opportunistic Networks (OppNets) offer a very volatile and dynamic networking environment. Several applications proposed for OppNets - such as social networking, emergency management, pervasive and urban sensing - involve the problem of sharing content amongst interested users. Despite the fact that nodes have limited resources, existing solutions for content sharing require that the nodes maintain and exchange large amount of status information, but this limits the system scalability. In order to cope with this problem, in this paper we present and evaluate a solution based on cognitive heuristics. Cognitive heuristics are functional models of the mental processes, studied in the cognitive psychology field. They describe the behavior of the brain when decisions have to be taken quickly, in spite of incomplete information. In our solution, nodes maintain an aggregated information built up from observations of the encountered nodes. The aggregate status and a probabilistic decision process is the basis on which nodes apply cognitive heuristics to decide how to disseminate content items upon meeting with each other. These two features allow the proposed solution to drastically limit the state kept by each node, and to dynamically adapt to both the dynamics of item diffusion and the dynamically changing node interests. The performance of our solution is evaluated through simulation and compared with other solutions in the literature.","PeriodicalId":158378,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 14th International Symposium on \"A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks\" (WoWMoM)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133579030","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}