{"title":"A GFDM-CDMA Scheme for Hybrid Satellite-Terrestrial Communication System","authors":"Yang Yang, Lidong Zhu, Xing Mao","doi":"10.1109/ISNCC.2019.8909153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISNCC.2019.8909153","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, hybrid Satellite-Terrestrial (S-T) communication system, especially satellite communications integration with 5G/6G, is regarded as future development trend. Considering physical layer access waveform design, this paper proposed a novel Generalized Frequency Division Multiplexing- Code Division Multiple Access (GFDM-CDMA) scheme for hybrid S-T communication system. GFDM has many advantages such as good adaptability and low out-of-band (OOB) radiation. However, because of its interference between adjacent subcarriers, the multiple access performance is degraded. In this paper, we introduced (CDMA) technology in GFDM. The odd and even subcarriers of GFDM are spread spectrum respectively. Moreover, this scheme integrates the slot-ALOHA protocol and GFDM-CDMA, which extends access freedom in frequency, time and code domain. The simulation and analysis results show that the proposed GFDM-CDMA scheme is effective and suitable for hybrid S-T communication system.","PeriodicalId":187178,"journal":{"name":"2019 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134387996","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}
Muhammad Taha Jilani, M. A. U. Rehman, Muhammad Azeem Abbas
{"title":"An Application Framework of Crowdsourcing based Emergency Events Reporting in Smart Cities","authors":"Muhammad Taha Jilani, M. A. U. Rehman, Muhammad Azeem Abbas","doi":"10.1109/ISNCC.2019.8909146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISNCC.2019.8909146","url":null,"abstract":"Trauma is the major cause of death in metropolises and it becomes even worse in developing countries, due to the huge delay between incident occurrence and patient arrival at the emergency center. Among others, a key contributing factor is the inefficient notification system that lacks essential information to the rescue services in a real-time manner. This paper describes an application framework for emergency event reporting system. The proposed approach is based on crowdsourcing that utilizes participatory sensing to leverage multiple smartphones users to collectively report emergency events. Volunteers within the vicinity of an incident can promptly trigger an alert notification to the rescue services with crucial information such as location coordinates, type of incident and number of victims. The system process this information and sent alert to the ambulance and other rescue services with optimized route details and the location of nearest emergency centers. This proposed framework found to be more efficient and comprehensive than conventional systems thus can be useful for future smart cities.","PeriodicalId":187178,"journal":{"name":"2019 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133122137","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":"Grating Lobes Reduction in Linear Arrays Composed of Subarrays Using PSO","authors":"Ghazale Tashtarian, S. Majedi","doi":"10.1109/ISNCC.2019.8909108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISNCC.2019.8909108","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present three new scenarios for grating lobes reduction in linear arrays composed of subarrays. In these scenarios particle swarm optimization algorithm is used to solve such non-linear problem. In all of these scenarios amplitude tapering at the subarray level is applied. In the first scenario subarrays have different lengths, in the second scenario they have different lengths and number of elements and in the third scenario they are unequally spaced subarrays. The proposed scenarios are able to disrupt the array periodicity and hence reduce grating lobes level. Arrays with length of 100λ composed of 10 subarrays are synthesized and simulated using the presented scenarios in order to verify their performance. The simulated results show that the side lobe level in the synthesized arrays are below −30 dB.","PeriodicalId":187178,"journal":{"name":"2019 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115404400","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":"Impact of I/Q Imbalance on Receive Space Modulation Techniques","authors":"Omar Hiari, R. Mesleh","doi":"10.1109/ISNCC.2019.8909169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISNCC.2019.8909169","url":null,"abstract":"Receive space modulation relies on channel knowledge at the transmitter and precoding to spatially modulate the receive antennas. This results in reduced complexity and more efficient receiver implementations. Receive space modulation techniques (RSMTs) in particular are a recently introduced family of hardware implementations that leverage receive space modulation. As with any RF hardware implementation, RSMTs will suffer from the effects of RF impairments due to non-ideal behavior of components. Particularly, the I/Q modulator is an essential component in most transmitter implementations which suffers from phase and amplitude imbalance that have an adverse effect on transmitted signals. In this paper, the impact of I/Q amplitude and phase imbalance on the performance of RSMTs is analyzed an studied. It is revealed through the acquired results that amplitude imbalance has the most adverse effect on the different systems, in particular when a high modulation order of an arbitrary constellation is leveraged.","PeriodicalId":187178,"journal":{"name":"2019 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123870086","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":"Emotion Recognition Based on Decoupling the Spatial Context from the Temporal Dynamics of Facial Expressions","authors":"R. Alazrai, K. M. Yousef, M. Daoud","doi":"10.1109/ISNCC.2019.8909141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISNCC.2019.8909141","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an emotion recognition approach based on decoupling the spatial context from the temporal dynamics of facial expressions in video sequences. In particular, each emotional state is represented as a set of temporal phases, where each temporal phase exhibits different temporal dynamics such as the expressing speed and the variable length of each phase. In this work, we have developed an algorithm for automatically detecting the temporal phases of human facial expressions by employing the concept of mutual information to define a similarity measure among different video frames. Moreover, we have developed a two-layer framework for emotional state recognition. The first layer utilizes the spatial context to classify the frames in an input video into emotional-specific temporal phases using a support vector machine classifier. In the second layer, dynamic time warping is used to classify the sequence of labels associated with the video frames, which is generated in the first layer, into a specific emotional state. In order to validate the performance of the proposed approach, we have conducted extensive computer simulations and the results show an average classification accuracy of 93.53% using the extended Cohn-Kanade facial-expression database.","PeriodicalId":187178,"journal":{"name":"2019 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC)","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116448393","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":"Indoor Location Finding of the Transmitter Based on Bluetooth Received Signal Strength","authors":"Murat Ture, Ayşenur Hatipoğlu","doi":"10.1109/ISNCC.2019.8909095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISNCC.2019.8909095","url":null,"abstract":"Around the world, positioning in open environments has been done via satellites. Satellite positioning systems require a direct line of sight (LOS) with satellites to provide high accuracy. Due to physical objects and potential interference sources, it is almost impossible to use satellite positioning systems in indoor environment, thus Indoor Positioning Systems (IPS) have been developed. We have implemented an IPS based on Bluetooth Smart Technology for signaling between transmitter and receivers. Besides, Trilateration and Linear Least Squares methods have been used to determine the position of the transmitter together with the radio received signal strength (RSS). The estimated values have been optimized by the Newton Raphson iteration method. In the implemented system, person of interests or items are not required to possess mobile devices. It is enough to carry Bluetooth Beacon devices which are cheap and efficient in terms of power consumption.","PeriodicalId":187178,"journal":{"name":"2019 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC)","volume":"189 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122355940","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 the Usage of DSCP and ECN Codepoints in Internet Backbone Traffic Traces for IPv4 and IPv6","authors":"Nils Rodday, Klement Streit, G. Rodosek, A. Pras","doi":"10.1109/ISNCC.2019.8909187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISNCC.2019.8909187","url":null,"abstract":"Differentiated Services Code Points are values that can be used on IP packets to mark traffic and allow for different Quality of Service treatment during the traversal through a network. Explicit Congestion Notifications are used to indicate that congestion on a network occurred. Both values are encoded in the previously called Type of Service field in the IP header. In this paper, we look at codepoint values for DSCP and ECN in relation to the ports used on the transport layer, which lets us infer the application that is generating the traffic. We provide new measurement data by analyzing traffic from Internet backbone links collected by CAIDA from the months March, April, and May 2018 in New York City. Our results show that DSCP codepoints are rarely used in IPv4 but even less in IPv6. Moreover, most traffic using DSCP codepoints is only using default values and not values designed for prioritization of packets. ECN-enabled traffic is scarce in IPv4, while in IPv6 it appears to be neglectable. However, we could observe differences for certain application traffic in the usage of DSCP and ECN codepoints and elaborate on their distribution.","PeriodicalId":187178,"journal":{"name":"2019 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122379009","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. Tahat, M. Abdelrahman, Qusai Abu-Khlaif, Lara Qatarneh, Zaina Abu-Shamma, O. Saraereh
{"title":"A Semi-Automated User-Centric Decision System for Green Communications Incorporating the Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm","authors":"A. Tahat, M. Abdelrahman, Qusai Abu-Khlaif, Lara Qatarneh, Zaina Abu-Shamma, O. Saraereh","doi":"10.1109/ISNCC.2019.8909180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISNCC.2019.8909180","url":null,"abstract":"In the general domain of telecommunications and networking, there is a relatively new area of green communications techniques that has been attracting the attention of many researchers. It is focused on making communications and network systems more friendly to the environment. In this paper, we aim to control the demand side of a wireless communications system and deploy techniques for shaping it to reduce the load on the network and to improve the capacity. This is due to the fact that wireless infrastructure, such as base stations, switching centers already consume about 0.5% of the global electric power that cause the carbon emissions, which translates into a carbon footprint of 34g of CO2for 1 Mbit of transmitted data. We consider a semi-automated decision system that implements a User-in- The-Loop (UIL) approach that has been described in the literature in recent years, where in addition we deploy the particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm in conjunction with two types of user traffic classes, namely, the Best Effort users and the Guaranteed Bit Rate users to enhance the efficient utilization of the overall system resources. Simulation results validate that these suggested UIL solutions techniques can improve the user capacity of the overall system when compared with the traditional uncontrolled system. Hence, this will have a positive impact on the interactions of communications systems with the environment, ultimately achieving the end purpose of the green mobile data communications.","PeriodicalId":187178,"journal":{"name":"2019 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC)","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124827552","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 New Approach to Simulating Node Deployment for Smart City Applications Using Geospatial Data","authors":"I. Senturk, Gaoussou Youssouf Kebe","doi":"10.1109/ISNCC.2019.8909101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISNCC.2019.8909101","url":null,"abstract":"The rapid urbanization combined with the continuing growth of the world's overall population entails efficient provisioning of services and infrastructure in the cities. Some of the challenges of this gradual shift can be addressed by the global phenomenon of smart cities. Despite various definitions, the concept refers to data-driven solutions to operate cities more efficiently. As the infrastructure requires constant data collection, sensors and various wireless communication technologies are the building blocks of smart cities. In this paper, we consider a smart city application to monitor the road network obtained through one of the volunteered geographic information (VGI) systems. To analyze the impact of the employed wireless communication technology on the network connectivity, we have deployed sensors to the infrastructure according to the obtained geospatial data and varied the transmission range of the sensors. The results show considerable decline in the number of occurred partitions and the minimum number of relay nodes required to ensure network-wide connectivity when the transmission range is increased.","PeriodicalId":187178,"journal":{"name":"2019 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128557989","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":"Capacity guaranteed sleep mode algorithm for 5G femtocell tier","authors":"C. Bouras, Georgios Diles, N. Konstantinos","doi":"10.1109/ISNCC.2019.8909200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISNCC.2019.8909200","url":null,"abstract":"The upcoming 5G networks require an advanced planning in terms of coordinating various mechanisms to achieve the highly expected performance growths that they pledge. This coordination becomes more challenging due to the increased density in urban environments of the deployment of small radius base stations, such as femtocells. In this paper we test our proposed mechanism for sleep mode power control in femtocell networks, over a widely used simulated traffic model, adjusted to our scenario. Our sleep mode strategy has been developed for femtocell clusters with the goal of reducing the number of operating femtocells without compromising the data rate performance of their subscribers. Our simulations reaffirm the benefits of our algorithm, especially the reduced number of operating femtocells and the increased offered capacity, when tested in realistic environments.","PeriodicalId":187178,"journal":{"name":"2019 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127233464","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}