{"title":"Stochastic model for data center energy saving augmented by optical wireless links","authors":"S. Arnon","doi":"10.1109/WiSEE.2016.7877305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WiSEE.2016.7877305","url":null,"abstract":"Data Centers (DC) consume an enormous amount of energy, now accounting for about 1.5% of US electrical usage. However, part of this energy (server operation and cooling) can be saved by turning off idle servers. This can be achieved by rerouting workloads from partially loaded servers, and thus allowing additional idle servers to shut down. Workload rerouting could be done by optical wireless communication (OWC) links, which can be deployed on top the existing cable/fiber network. In comparison to classic wired infrastructure, OWC deployment and maintenance is faster and simpler, and it offers dynamic configuration of the network. In this paper we derive a stochastic model of data center energy reduction using optical wireless links as a function of the data center load. Our results indicate that for typical data center energy reduction of more than 5% could be achieved for given set of parameters.","PeriodicalId":177862,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE)","volume":"167 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122275574","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":"Lifetime and power consumption optimization for distributed passive radar systems","authors":"Omid Taghizadeh, G. Alirezaei, R. Mathar","doi":"10.1109/WiSEE.2016.7877294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WiSEE.2016.7877294","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we address the power allocation problem for a system of distributed passive radar sensor network, where the location of the source is relatively constant, aiming at lifetime maximization and power consumption minimization. It is known that for a network in which the source location changes independently at each observation step, a nearly-optimal strategy can be obtained by minimizing the network power consumption at each iteration independently from other iterations. In this paper, we observe that this is not the case for a network with a constant source location. The reason is that for the latter case, the power of the nodes with good location will be expired very fast which leads to a significantly shorter network lifetime. In order to mitigate this effect, we propose a weighted sum-power minimization strategy which effectively reduces the gap with the optimal power allocation scenario, when the network resources are scarce. The numerical simulations compare the behavior of both strategies for various network conditions.","PeriodicalId":177862,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120926219","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":"Reducing energy consumption of data centers using optical wireless links","authors":"E. Rosenkrantz, S. Arnon","doi":"10.1109/WiSEE.2016.7877306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WiSEE.2016.7877306","url":null,"abstract":"Data Center (DC) servers consume a huge amount of energy. However, a part of this energy (cooling and information technology devices) can be saved by shutting down racks containing idle servers. This can be achieved by rerouting workloads from partially loaded racks, and thus allowing additional racks to switch into idle mode. Workload rerouting requires additional wired links or by optical wireless communication (OWC) links, which can be deployed on top the existing network. In comparison to classic wired infrastructure, OWC deployment and maintenance is faster and simpler, and it offers dynamic configuration of the network. Moreover, OWC can be used to augment the performance of virtualization techniques, which allow load balancing. In this paper we developed a mathematical model and an optimization algorithm along with numerical simulations, which evaluate the energy consumption in DCs. Results show that for a uniform distributed load between 24–100% and a 100% deployment of OWC links, 33% of the IT and cooling energy consumed can be saved.","PeriodicalId":177862,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121757594","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. Fraire, P. Madoery, J. Finochietto, P. Ferreyra, R. Velazco
{"title":"Internetworking approaches towards along-track segmented satellite architectures","authors":"J. Fraire, P. Madoery, J. Finochietto, P. Ferreyra, R. Velazco","doi":"10.1109/WiSEE.2016.7877316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WiSEE.2016.7877316","url":null,"abstract":"The Argentinian Space Agency (CONAE) has been pursuing the development of segmented satellite architectures as a novel strategy to reduce the cost and improve responsiveness of space access. Among the key enablers for these architectures, wireless communication is likely to be the most critical as it requires to operate on a highly dynamic, sparse and extreme environments. In this work, we analyze and derive the main specifications that a communication system for segmented architectures (CSSA) must support. In particular, we provide an abstract model to predict the access time to segmented systems to later propose a layered arrangement of the main specifications for the CSSA. Finally, we analyze by simulation a particular CSSA configuration in a simple yet representative scenario with an along-track flight formation.","PeriodicalId":177862,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE)","volume":"693 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116957795","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":"Joint localization and transmit-ambiguity resolution for ultra-low energy wireless sensors","authors":"Stephan Schlupkothen, G. Ascheid","doi":"10.1109/WiSEE.2016.7877302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WiSEE.2016.7877302","url":null,"abstract":"Technological advances in the miniaturization of millimeter-sized sensor motes facilitate new application cases where the motes' inherent energy constraints enforce radical changes with respect to the sensors' communication procedures. An upcoming application scenario is the surveying and exploration of hardly permeable and hardly accessible underground environments such as those of oil-sand mining areas. This scenario requires ten-thousands of millimeter-sized sensor motes (outer diameter less than 5mm) to examine the resource wealth. Within this scope, a correspondingly large amount of extremely resource constrained sensors motes need to have the possibility to sense their environment and interact with each other. In order to enable such application cases, significant energy savings are necessary. An interesting and promising approach is to shorten the sensors' DS-CDMA code sequences and, thereby, reduce the communication related energy costs. In this work, we investigate the resulting downsides of this approach on the range-based localization. As the code shortening leads to the problem of nonunique transmitter identification and consequently non-relatable pairwise distance measurements, the localization of the sensors by typical means is prevented in the first place. This is because multiple sensor motes will concurrently use the same transmit-codes. In this regard, we propose an approach which enables the joint localization and ambiguity resolution and reduces the complexity compared to sequential approaches where at fist the transmit-ambiguities are resolved and a localization with typical methods is performed subsequently.","PeriodicalId":177862,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127621862","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 comparison of VLC MIMO techniques considering indoor illuminance with inclined LEDs","authors":"Ruowen Bai, Rui Jiang, J. Tan, Jinguo Quan","doi":"10.1109/WiSEE.2016.7877313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WiSEE.2016.7877313","url":null,"abstract":"Visible light communication (VLC) is a promising complementary technology to radio frequency (RF) communication. In existing VLC multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system, light emitting diodes (LEDs) vertical MIMO (LVM) model is commonly used. However, in LVM model, illuminance distribution is not uniform enough for office and the optical channel is highly correlated, which degrade the system performance, especially in cases with small emitter separation. In this paper, LEDs inclined MIMO (LIM) model is proposed and the performance comparison of LIM and LVM model assuming line-of-sight (LOS) channel characteristics is presented. Theoretical analysis and simulation results show that LIM model outperforms LVM model in many respects. Firstly, LIM model provides more uniform office illuminance distribution than LVM model. In addition, LIM model with spatial modulation (SM) or spatial multiplexing (SMP) can achieve better bit error ratio (BER) performance when the receiver is in the center, especially with higher signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), because the inclined LEDs can reduce the MIMO channel correlation, which compensates the loss of received power. Besides, when the receiver is on the edge, LIM model with RC, SMP or SM all performs better than LVM model since more power is received and the channel correlation is lower. Furthermore, LIM model outperforms LVM model when considering receiver mobility since LIM model can provide a larger reliable communication area on the receiver plane.","PeriodicalId":177862,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114136186","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":"Power allocation for multi-target sensor networks","authors":"E. Zandi, G. Alirezaei, R. Mathar","doi":"10.1109/WiSEE.2016.7877296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WiSEE.2016.7877296","url":null,"abstract":"This paper regards a network of wireless passive sensors, suitable for radar applications. The network observes multiple number of target signals to be estimated. We propose an unbiased estimator whose error is minimized by optimizing both the power allocation at sensor nodes and the fusion coefficients at the fusion center. Since the underlying optimization problems are subject to both the individual power constraints of sensor nodes and a sum-power constraint of the sensor network, the corresponding solution describes an optimized policy for efficient power allocation to the sensor nodes and enables an energy-aware operation of the sensor network. The results are compared via numerical simulations.","PeriodicalId":177862,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE)","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121606636","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":"Efficient set-membership filtering algorithms for wireless sensor networks","authors":"Pouya Ghofrani, A. Schmeink","doi":"10.1109/WiSEE.2016.7877298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WiSEE.2016.7877298","url":null,"abstract":"The paper discusses three main adaptive filtering algorithms with partial updates and low computational complexities that converge fast and have a significantly better mean square error (MSE) performance than their non selective-update versions when they are tuned well. The algorithms are set-membership normalized least mean squares (SM-NLMS), SM affine projection (SM-AP) and SM recursive least squares (SM-RLS, also known as BEACON). The lifetime of a wireless sensor network (WSN) is often governed by its power consumption. We show how the previous works for energy prediction, channel estimation, localization and data replication in WSNs can be improved in both accuracy and energy conservation by employing these algorithms. We derive two simplified versions of the SM-AP and BEACON algorithms to further minimize the computational load. The probable drawbacks of the algorithms and the alternative solutions are also investigated. To exhibit the improvements and compare the algorithms, computer simulations are conducted for different scenarios. The purpose is to show that many signal processing algorithms for WSNs can be replaced by one general low complexity algorithm which can perform different tasks by minor parameter adjustments.","PeriodicalId":177862,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE)","volume":"142 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121711066","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}
Chen Chen, J. Jiao, Haitai Wu, Yonghui Li, Qinyu Zhang
{"title":"Adaptive rateless coding scheme for deep-space Ka-band communications","authors":"Chen Chen, J. Jiao, Haitai Wu, Yonghui Li, Qinyu Zhang","doi":"10.1109/WiSEE.2016.7877308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WiSEE.2016.7877308","url":null,"abstract":"The deep-space Ka-band channels are very sensitive to the weather conditions of the ground station area, where the data link will be suffered by high dynamic bit error rate and even occurred random interruption. Moreover, the huge distance of the deep-space communications caused that the transmitter can only have delayed channel state information (CSI) feedback. We modeled the noise temperature of the Ka-band link as an N-state Markov model based on the Autoregressive (AR) analysis in this paper, and then proposed a low-error channel state estimation algorithm. Furthermore, we designed an adaptive rateless coding scheme based on Analog fountain codes (AFC), which is capable to adjust code-rate to maximize the usage of the Ka-band link. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme have capacity-approaching performance, can increase system throughput and improve transmission efficiency.","PeriodicalId":177862,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE)","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121657446","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":"Novel synthetic phased-array antenna systems for wide-view concertos platforms","authors":"E. Ngai","doi":"10.1109/WiSEE.2016.7877319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WiSEE.2016.7877319","url":null,"abstract":"Active Synthetic Phased-Array Antenna Sensors will significantly enhance the RF performance for various synchronized platforms. It is built on the idea of systematically integrating and interfacing Phased-Array Antenna manifolds to retrieve various sensor information. This approach essentially overcomes the inflexibility of employing passive stand-alone single-aperture phased-array sensor as its performance degrades from systems eclipse due to its scan limit. It is a form of concerted RF sensors, designed to provide extended coverage i.e. wide field of view to compensate for the performance loss suffered from using the passive singly-aperture phased-array RF sensors. The design for these sensors is flexible that they can be reconfigured easily for broad range of RF applications. In addition, these sensors can be integrated on various moving and or stationary platforms with state of the art computing capability coupled with interface connectivity to improve the survivability and reliability of the RF sensors. These systems are especially adaptable to mobile structures such as Robotics and the like for modern RF radar, communication and remote sensing operating at extreme weather condition.","PeriodicalId":177862,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125283706","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}