{"title":"Fighting against access collision and hidden node problem in broadcast scheme of wireless ad hoc networks","authors":"Xianbo Chen, L. Tsaur, H. Refai, Xiaomin Ma","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOMW.2013.6824996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOMW.2013.6824996","url":null,"abstract":"Broadcast service is an integral part of wireless networks, through which important control and signaling information are typically exchanged. However, its multi-receiver nature determines that broadcast suffers more from access collision and hidden node problem. In wireless ad hoc networks, the phenomenon becomes even worse due to the absence of a central coordinator. Existing media access control (MAC) protocols in wireless ad hoc networks were primarily designed for unicast service and the potential broadcast support is not satisfying. In this paper, we introduce a MAC layer protocol, namely Parallel Signaling and Persistently Synchronous MAC (PS2MAC) that can significantly alleviate both access collision and hidden node problem. A novel relay technique is deployed in PS2MAC so that a superior broadcast performance, such as throughput and packet delivery ratio, is achieved. The conclusion is supported with simulation analysis.","PeriodicalId":174992,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133850173","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":"Vehicular cloud computing: A survey","authors":"Lin Gu, Deze Zeng, Song Guo","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOMW.2013.6825021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOMW.2013.6825021","url":null,"abstract":"With the proliferation of automobile industry, vehicles are augmented with various forms of increasingly powerful computation, communication, storage and sensing resources. A vehicle therefore can be regarded as “computer-on-wheels”. With such rich resources, it is of great significance to efficiently utilize these resources. This puts forward the vision of vehicular cloud computing. In this paper, we provide an extensive survey of current vehicular cloud computing research and highlight several key issues of vehicular cloud such as architecture, inherent features, service taxonomy and potential applications.","PeriodicalId":174992,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122315041","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":"Protocols and stability analysis for energy harvesting TDMA systems with/without relaying","authors":"I. Krikidis, G. Zheng, B. Ottersten","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOMW.2013.6855666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOMW.2013.6855666","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with time-division multiple access (TDMA) in wireless networks with bursty data traffic and energy harvesting capabilities at the source nodes. Several TDMA-based transmission strategies that incorporate different levels of “as-sistance” for the energy-constrained sources are investigated and analyzed in terms of stable throughput. Specifically, we study the stability region for a TDMA policy with assistance of a) channel state information (CSI) at the sources, b) orthogonal relaying cooperation, c) cognitive radio relaying cooperation and d) full-duplex (FD) relaying cooperation. The transmission parameters associated with the proposed strategies are also optimized. We observe that CSI results in significant energy savings and enlarge the stability region of the network while FD cooperation, which exploits the multipacket reception characteristics of the channel, provides the best performance.","PeriodicalId":174992,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116635741","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}
Xiaohu Ge, J. Martínez-Bauset, V. Casares-Giner, Bin Yang, J. Ye, Min Chen
{"title":"Modelling and performance analysis of different access schemes in two-tier wireless networks","authors":"Xiaohu Ge, J. Martínez-Bauset, V. Casares-Giner, Bin Yang, J. Ye, Min Chen","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOMW.2013.6855644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOMW.2013.6855644","url":null,"abstract":"We develop a teletraffic model to evaluate the performance of two typical access schemes in two-tier wireless networks. Two of the main performance parameters are the blocking probability and carried traffic. Numerical results show that the femtocell priority access scheme performs better than the macrocell priority access scheme as it achieves lower blocking probability and carries more traffic.","PeriodicalId":174992,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114911206","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":"MM-QoS for BAN: Multi-level MAC-layer QoS design in body area networks","authors":"Min Chen","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOMW.2013.6855745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOMW.2013.6855745","url":null,"abstract":"Employing recent wireless technologies, body area network (BAN) interconnects the communications between sensors nearby human bodies and outside world. The sensors collect environmental and physiological data with various importance, therefore, the provisioning of quality of service (QoS) for the sensory data in BAN is a critical issue. This paper proposes MM-QoS, which is a multiple level-based QoS design at MAC layer for a tree topology structured BAN. The QoS provisioning is divided into three levels of priorities, i.e., priority of user (PoU), priority of data (PoD) and priority over time (PoT). The time slot-based CSMA/CA mechanism in the beacon enabled mode of IEEE 802.15.4 is utilized for the implementation of the QoS framework. The simulation results verify the effectiveness of the multi-level QoS provisioning in BAN.","PeriodicalId":174992,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114687719","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":"RTS/FCTS mechanism based full-duplex MAC protocol for wireless networks","authors":"Wenchi Cheng, Xi Zhang, Hailin Zhang","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOMW.2013.6855746","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOMW.2013.6855746","url":null,"abstract":"As an attractive and challenging transmission mode, the wireless full-duplex transmission can potentially double the system throughput if the self-interference can be efficiently cancelled or suppressed as compared with that of the wireless half-duplex transmission. Recently emerged advanced self-interference cancellation and suppression techniques have shown the possibility of avoiding the overwhelmed self-interference of the wireless full-duplex transmission. However, to achieve the double system throughput in wireless full-duplex networks, not only the efficient self-interference cancellation and suppression techniques in the physical-layer is necessary, but also the practical full-duplex medium access control (MAC) protocol is highly demanded in the datalink layer. In this paper, we propose a novel request to send (RTS)/full-duplex clear to send (FCTS) based MAC protocol which can support both bidirectional and unidirectionallinks in wireless full-duplex networks. Then, we develop the analytical model to characterize the performance of our proposed full-duplex MAC protocol in wireless full-duplex networks. Also conducted is a set of numerical evaluations showing that our proposed full-duplex MAC protocol can achieve superior system throughput as compared with that of the conventional half-duplex MAC protocol for wireless networks.","PeriodicalId":174992,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124099393","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":"Optimum energy efficient communications for hybrid ARQ systems","authors":"G. Wang, Jingxian Wu, Y. R. Zheng","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOMW.2013.6855686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOMW.2013.6855686","url":null,"abstract":"The optimum energy efficient communication of a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) system with Chase combining is studied in this paper. The proposed scheme minimizes the energy required to successfully deliver a bit from a source to its destination by identifying the optimum energy distribution, i.e., the sequence of transmission energy that should be employed during the retransmissions of a packet. The optimum energy distribution is calculated with a new backward sequential method, where the energy of the retransmission round k is expressed as a closed-form expression of the energy of the retransmission rounds i > k. The optimum design is performed by considering a wide range of practical system parameters, such as circuit power and coding in the physical layer, and frame length and protocol overhead in the media access control layer. Both analytical and simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme can achieve significant energy savings compared to conventional HARQ systems that employ equal energy in all retransmissions.","PeriodicalId":174992,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125412608","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}
K. Laghari, Rishabh Gupta, Jan-Niklas Antons, R. Schleicher, S. Möller, T. Falk
{"title":"Objective characterization of human behavioural characteristics for QoE assessment: A pilot study on the use of electroencephalography features","authors":"K. Laghari, Rishabh Gupta, Jan-Niklas Antons, R. Schleicher, S. Möller, T. Falk","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOMW.2013.6825151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOMW.2013.6825151","url":null,"abstract":"Quality of Experience (QoE) is a human-centric paradigm which produces the blue print of human behavioral states such as perception, emotion, cognition and expectation. Recent advances in neurophysiological monitoring tools have facilitated the study of frequency, time and location of neuronal activity to an unprecedented degree, as well as opened doors to a better understanding of human cognition, emotions and overall behavioral systems. These neurophysiological insights may provide more accurate and objective characterization of QoE metrics. This paper seeks to investigate neuronal activity generated by three different quality levels of a speech stimulus using electroencephalography (EEG). To this end, an electroencephalography (EEG) feature was computed based on the coupling between so-called delta and beta EEG frequency bands, which has previously been linked with negative behavioral characteristics (anxiety, frustration, dissatisfaction). The result indicates an increase in delta and beta coupling with a decrease in the speech quality levels. Additionally, neural correlates of a subjective affective scores (arousal and valence) were also computed and shown to be inversely proportional with EEG feature. These preliminary findings corroborate that emotions play a significant role in human quality and QoE perception.","PeriodicalId":174992,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"130 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114621464","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":"Investigation into spatial audio quality of experience in the presence of accompanying video cues with spatial mismatch","authors":"Chungeun Kim, A. Kondoz, Xiyu Shi","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOMW.2013.6825155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOMW.2013.6825155","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the metrics for spatial audio quality of experience (QoE) prediction, particularly considering the existence of video whose viewpoint may not match that of the auditory scene. Subjective tests were conducted for 5.1-channel audio quality evaluation following a previously developed testing and prediction methodology, with the addition of accompanying video cues and with the spatial correlation between audio and video as a new variable for the QoE prediction. The first experiment with a synthesized visual cue showed that the spatial mismatch between audio and video affects the perceived audio QoE. A prediction model of the QoE score was suggested through statistical analysis, using the audio-video angular mismatch as well as other known measurable low-level parameters. The model was validated through another set of subjective test using a captured real-life audiovisual content.","PeriodicalId":174992,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128343295","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 energy-efficient on-demand multicast routing protocol for wireless ad hoc and sensor networks","authors":"Jie Hao, Guojian Duan, Baoxian Zhang, Cheng Li","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOM.2013.6831758","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2013.6831758","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose an energy-efficient on-demand multicast routing protocol (EMP) for wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. The design objective is to prolong the network lifetime of such networks. For this purpose, EMP introduces the strategy of energy critical avoidance in the process of on-demand construction of multicast routing trees. That is, those energy-critical nodes in the network are discouraged from involving a multicasting task. EMP also incorporates the destination-driven feature in its tree construction process in order to reduce the tree cost. We present the detailed design description of EMP. Simulation results show that EMP can achieve high performance in terms of network lifetime.","PeriodicalId":174992,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128539045","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}