Eric Neidhardt, Sandra Bähr, R. Nippold, C. Dalaff
{"title":"Web-based transport management tool-suite (KeepOperational) for crisis management","authors":"Eric Neidhardt, Sandra Bähr, R. Nippold, C. Dalaff","doi":"10.1109/ConTEL.2019.8848566","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ConTEL.2019.8848566","url":null,"abstract":"A well working transportation infrastructure is crucial for modern societies and the mobility of people. The general public relies on a sound infrastructure to fulfill their increasing and individual mobility needs. This means a wide range of transport necessities – e.g. daily way to work and daily (consumer, service) needs. In the event of a crisis, e.g. caused by a natural hazard, the transport infrastructure becomes vital for different reasons. The people have to be evacuated or rescued from the affected area. Furthermore, relief aid and supplies, as well as rescue forces do require unimpaired access to the crisis area. Natural disasters, like an earthquake or a flooding, are disturbing the transport infrastructure negatively. Cascading consequences are, for example, impassable roads, disturbed railway connections and a reduced transport capacity of persons and goods. To develop evacuation strategies, to plan logistics operations of emergency forces in the affected area and to safely route these forces through the affected area, among others, routing tools are required that take into account the current state of the infrastructure [1]. The Institute of Transportation Systems of the German Aerospace Center has developed KeepOperational, a web-based, integrated decision support tool for traffic management and crisis logistics. As a key feature, this system can directly inject impairments of the transportation infrastructure – derived from various sources – into the routing network so that these disturbances will be considered by the routing algorithms.","PeriodicalId":182429,"journal":{"name":"2019 15th International Conference on Telecommunications (ConTEL)","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114498632","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":"Suitability of Optical Wireless Communication receivers for Virtual Reality Applications","authors":"V. Guerra, J. Rabadán, R. P. Jiménez","doi":"10.1109/ConTEL.2019.8848557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ConTEL.2019.8848557","url":null,"abstract":"Virtual Reality has experienced massive commercial adoption due to the cost reduction of head mounted displays and the improvement of immersive user experience. Nevertheless, there are lots of initiatives and experiments in course for improving even more the quality of experience. One of the main faced obstacle by these systems is the user’s degrees of freedom. Static player positions (seated or standing without walking) and cable connections are being replaced by fully interactive wireless systems. Future scenarios will comprise a common space in which several players can freely move, interacting in the virtual domain. In this situation, high bandwidth wireless communications will play an important role. This paper evaluates feasibility of using Optical Wireless Communications for VR systems, attending at the impact of the receiver’s orientation on the link performance.","PeriodicalId":182429,"journal":{"name":"2019 15th International Conference on Telecommunications (ConTEL)","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126548792","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":"Experimental Evaluation of Unipolar OFDM VLC System on Software Defined Platform","authors":"Bassam Aly, M. Elamassie, M. Uysal, Emrah Kinav","doi":"10.1109/ConTEL.2019.8848539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ConTEL.2019.8848539","url":null,"abstract":"With unique features and advantages, visible light communication (VLC) is considered as a powerful complementary wireless access technology to radio frequency solutions such as WiFi. To handle the frequency-selectivity of VLC channels particularly at high speeds, multi-carrier signaling in the form of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is typically preferred. Among various variants of optical OFDM, unipolar OFDM (U-OFDM) stands outs with its better error rate performance. In this paper, we present the experimental evaluation of the bit error rate (BER) performance of a U-OFDM-based VLC system. In our experimental set-up, we use the popular software defined platform USRP (Universal software radio peripheral) from National Instruments customized with baseband cards and integrated with VLC front-ends. We first characterize the frequency-selective VLC channel. Then, we present BER performance against the estimated signal-to-noise-ratio and confirm it through comparison with theoretical results.","PeriodicalId":182429,"journal":{"name":"2019 15th International Conference on Telecommunications (ConTEL)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126558787","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":"Self-powered Weak Light LED-LED Communications","authors":"Shuang Liang, Shangbin Li, Qiqi Pan, Zhengyuan Xu","doi":"10.1109/ConTEL.2019.8848501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ConTEL.2019.8848501","url":null,"abstract":"A self-powered weak light LED-LED communication was demonstrated, in which the transceiver could be powered by a white LED module. Both OOK and PPM modulations were compared and it was shown the PPM modulation has more advantage under the situation of the low signal to noise ratio. The highest achievable bit rate under the FEC threshold of the bit error rate versus the lowest transmitted optical power of the LED-LED link was investigated. A bit rate of 10Mbps was achieved by 16-PPM with the transmitted optical power less than 100μW.","PeriodicalId":182429,"journal":{"name":"2019 15th International Conference on Telecommunications (ConTEL)","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124871923","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":"The importance of face-to-face teaching at fundamental telecommunication courses","authors":"M. Sokele, Trpimir Alajbeg, I. Lujo","doi":"10.1109/ConTEL.2019.8848530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ConTEL.2019.8848530","url":null,"abstract":"Professional undergraduate study of Communication and computer technology at Zagreb University of Applied Sciences is performed by using blended learning, combining the advantages of both face-to-face teaching and computer-assisted learning. For fundamental telecommunication courses such as “Digital circuits”, “Signals theory and processing” and “Information theory and coding”, teaching includes lectures, exercises and laboratory exercises. Lectures and exercises are held by face-to-face teaching, while laboratory exercises are hardware or software oriented and are performed in a standard laboratory environment. All teaching types are supported by a Learning management system for group as well as individual student preparation and learning. In this paper, the results of research about the correlation of students’ success on the exam and their attendance of lectures and exercises, are presented. Modeling of data was performed by linear and piecewise linear regression (“hockey stick” shaped). The analysis of the results showed a strong positive correlation between the student success at exam and their attendance of lectures and exercises. Abovementioned confirms the importance of face-to-face teaching alongside of all technology mediated ways of learning in case of fundamental telecommunication courses.","PeriodicalId":182429,"journal":{"name":"2019 15th International Conference on Telecommunications (ConTEL)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124507854","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":"ConTEL 2019 List of Reviewers","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/contel.2019.8848546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/contel.2019.8848546","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":182429,"journal":{"name":"2019 15th International Conference on Telecommunications (ConTEL)","volume":"2014 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133859054","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 Study of Spatial and Temporal Dispersion in Turbulent Underwater Optical Wireless Channel","authors":"Callum T. Geldard, J. Thompson, W. Popoola","doi":"10.1109/ConTEL.2019.8848555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ConTEL.2019.8848555","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a method of modelling optical underwater turbulence as a scattering attribute in simulation. This technique allows the spatial and temporal effects of this turbulent scattering to be accounted for in a way that treating it as a fading parameter does not. The half power beam-width at the receiver plane is shown to increase as turbulence increases in turbid harbour water. The impulse response of a perfectly aligned signal and that of a crosstalk component are compared for a fixed offset position. They show that, as well as an increase in delay spread, the relative effect of inter-channel interference increases when turbulent scattering is increased.","PeriodicalId":182429,"journal":{"name":"2019 15th International Conference on Telecommunications (ConTEL)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130386415","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":"On emergency and military telecom services: a thorns road to IP world","authors":"M. Schneps-Schneppe, D. Namiot","doi":"10.1109/ConTEL.2019.8848528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ConTEL.2019.8848528","url":null,"abstract":"A main goal of the paper is to discuss the world telecommunications strategy in transition to the IP world. Particularly, we analyze the parallels between emergency and military services and co-existence of circuit switching and packet switching technologies. We discuss the difficulties to build the emergency networks in the U.S. and Russian Federation. As a case, we are passing through three generations of American military communications: (1) the implementation of signaling protocol SS7 and Advanced Intelligent Network, (2) transformation from SS7 to IP protocol and, finally, (3) the extremely ambitious cybersecurity issues. In conclusion, recalling the difficulties that complicate the transition from circuit switching, seems, it is timely to say: the long circuit switching CS and packet switching PS coexistence seems inevitable.","PeriodicalId":182429,"journal":{"name":"2019 15th International Conference on Telecommunications (ConTEL)","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124443169","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 Congestion Control and Resource Allocation for Massive MTC in 5G Networks Based on SCMA","authors":"Luciano Miuccio, D. Panno, Salvatore Riolo","doi":"10.1109/ConTEL.2019.8848540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ConTEL.2019.8848540","url":null,"abstract":"The massive Machine Type Communications (mMTC) usage scenario, also known as massive Internet of Things (mIoT), involves a large number of MTC devices having high requirements on increased battery lifetime, which autonomously transfer small amounts of data with relaxed delay requirements, without human intervention. The current cellular network is unsuitable for this scenario, due to the limited uplink resources allocated to the Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) and to the Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH). With this in mind, in this paper we propose a new framework, customized for massive MTC services, that includes a joint control of the dynamic resource allocation between the PRACH and the PUSCH, and a new random access procedure based on an adaptive Access Class Barring (ACB) scheme that appropriately spreads random access re-attempts in time. In addition, to further increase the transmission efficiency, we adopt the Sparse Code Multiple Access (SCMA) technique for PUSCH resources, because SCMA results as the most promising Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) technique to support massive MTC connectivity with small-size data. Simulation results show that the proposed control framework significantly improves the number of succeeded communications and guarantees lower energy consumption in comparison with other proposals available in literature.","PeriodicalId":182429,"journal":{"name":"2019 15th International Conference on Telecommunications (ConTEL)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125378210","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}
D. Gračanin, R. B. Knapp, Thomas L. Martin, Sarah Parker
{"title":"Smart Virtual Care Centers in the Context of Performance and Privacy","authors":"D. Gračanin, R. B. Knapp, Thomas L. Martin, Sarah Parker","doi":"10.1109/ConTEL.2019.8848553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ConTEL.2019.8848553","url":null,"abstract":"US and Europe have been experiencing an unprecedented increase in the number of older adults. Increased life expectancy and increasingly aging population present challenges in terms of costs associated with elderly healthcare and wellbeing, as well as decreasing availability of health personnel. Similar trends are occurring in the rest of the world. There is a strong push to promote remote telehealth monitoring centers or virtual care centers (VCCs) as a way to address health care needs, especially for the aging population. Technology advances, such as Internet of Things and Smart Built Environments, support proliferation of smart and secure telehealth care that can be implemented at all levels. Remote patient monitoring, combined with personalized interventions and coaching, serves as the foundation for VCCs. However, there are trade-offs with regard to privacy and changes in the living environment and the overall scalability. We need to explore how technology can be utilized to provide health services while protecting and preserving privacy of all stakeholders. A distributed VCC (DVCC), created from individual VCCs and crossing regional and national borders, can provide effective, continuous service with ability to adjust to unforeseen events and emergencies. We discuss a meta-model-based approach to protect patients’ data while improving the efficiency of the care center personnel, which will allow remote care centers to more easily scale as need to provide round-the-clock monitoring.","PeriodicalId":182429,"journal":{"name":"2019 15th International Conference on Telecommunications (ConTEL)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115732517","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}