{"title":"Resilient SDN based small cell backhaul networks using mmWave bands","authors":"Jonathan Vestin, A. Kassler","doi":"10.1109/WoWMoM.2016.7523543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM.2016.7523543","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the tremendous increase in traffic demand, current mobile access and backhaul networks face a capacity problem. To increase the capacity, one can deploy many small cells, which may be dynamically powered on where traffic demand arises. As a consequence, the backhaul network for dense small cell deployments needs to cope with the massive increase in user demands but rolling out fiber to each small cell is economically not viable. Recently, mmWave based mobile backhaul networks have raised a lot of interest because of the large chunk of available spectrum in the 60 GHz, and 70/80 GHz band. However, due to the specific propagation characteristic of mmWave spectrum, such links may face frequent outage. In addition, a more flexible design of the backhaul network is desired in order to cope with the diversification of service requirements. In this paper, we propose a small cell backhaul network architecture which is based on the concept of Software Defined Networking. In order to cope with the dynamics of mmWave links, we propose that the SDN control plane calculates for each backhaul link a set of backup links. Using OpenFlow Fast Failover groups, a fast local repair of a mmWave backhaul link can be achieved leading to a resilient backhaul mesh architecture. An evaluation of our concept in a network emulator demonstrates the effectiveness of our approach. Particularly how it leads to lower packet loss and consequently higher throughput.","PeriodicalId":187747,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 17th International Symposium on A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126937532","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}
Zheng Chen, N. Pappas, M. Kountouris, Vangelis Angelakis
{"title":"Throughput analysis of smart objects with delay constraints","authors":"Zheng Chen, N. Pappas, M. Kountouris, Vangelis Angelakis","doi":"10.1109/WoWMoM.2016.7523565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM.2016.7523565","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we analyze a shared access network with one primary device and randomly distributed smart objects with secondary priority. Assuming random traffic at the primary device and saturated queues at the smart objects with secondary priority, an access protocol is employed to adjust the random access probabilities of the smart objects depending on the congestion level of the primary. We characterize the maximum throughput of the secondary network with respect to delay constraints on the primary. Our results highlight the impact of system design parameters on the delay and throughput behavior of the shared access network with massive number of connected objects.","PeriodicalId":187747,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 17th International Symposium on A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128140621","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}
P. Ruckebusch, J. Bauwens, Bart Jooris, S. Giannoulis, E. D. Poorter, I. Moerman, D. Garlisi, P. Gallo, I. Tinnirello
{"title":"Cross-technology wireless experimentation: Improving 802.11 and 802.15.4e coexistence","authors":"P. Ruckebusch, J. Bauwens, Bart Jooris, S. Giannoulis, E. D. Poorter, I. Moerman, D. Garlisi, P. Gallo, I. Tinnirello","doi":"10.1109/WoWMoM.2016.7523538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM.2016.7523538","url":null,"abstract":"In this demo we demonstrate the functionalities of a novel experimentation framework, called WiSHFUL, that facilitates the prototyping and experimental validation of innovative solutions for heterogeneous wireless networks, including cross-technology coordination mechanisms. The framework supports a clean separation between the definition of the logic for optimizing the behaviors of wireless devices and the underlying device capabilities, by means of a unifying platform-independent control interface and programming model. The use of the framework is demonstrated through two representative use cases, where medium access is coordinated between IEEE-802.11 and IEEE-802.15.4 networks.","PeriodicalId":187747,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 17th International Symposium on A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132619011","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}
Aydin Rajaei, Dan Chalmers, I. Wakeman, G. Parisis
{"title":"GSAF: Efficient and flexible geocasting for opportunistic networks","authors":"Aydin Rajaei, Dan Chalmers, I. Wakeman, G. Parisis","doi":"10.1109/WoWMoM.2016.7523550","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM.2016.7523550","url":null,"abstract":"With the proliferation of smartphones and their advanced connectivity capabilities, opportunistic networks have gained a lot of traction during the past years; they are suitable for increasing network capacity and sharing ephemeral, localised content. They can also offload traffic from cellular networks to device-to-device ones, when cellular networks are heavily stressed. Opportunistic networks can play a crucial role in communication scenarios where the network infrastructure is inaccessible due to natural disasters, large-scale terrorist attacks or government censorship. Geocasting, where messages are destined to specific locations (casts) instead of explicitly identified devices, has a large potential in real world opportunistic networks, however it has attracted little attention in the context of opportunistic networking. In this paper we propose Geocasting Spray And Flood (GSAF), a simple but efficient and flexible geocasting protocol for opportunistic, delay-tolerant networks. GSAF follows a simple but elegant and flexible approach where messages take random walks towards the destination cast. Messages that follow directions away from the cast are extinct when the device buffer gets full, freeing space for new messages to be delivered. In GSAF, casts do not have to be pre-defined; instead users can route messages to arbitrarily defined casts. Our extensive evaluation shows that GSAF is efficient, in terms of message delivery ratio and latency as well as network overhead.","PeriodicalId":187747,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 17th International Symposium on A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)","volume":"295 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114454286","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}
Marco Wagner, Jeroen Laverman, Dennis Grewe, S. Schildt
{"title":"Introducing a harmonized and generic cross-platform interface between a Vehicle and the Cloud","authors":"Marco Wagner, Jeroen Laverman, Dennis Grewe, S. Schildt","doi":"10.1109/WoWMoM.2016.7523575","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM.2016.7523575","url":null,"abstract":"Vehicle-to-Cloud connectivity is opening up a vehicle's internal data and function portfolio to the outside world. This sets up new chances by being able to create new customer services that enable new business models and opportunities. However, current approaches for Vehicle-to-Cloud connectivity tend to build technological silos by being restricted to a single manufacturer or model, a single functionality or to the automotive domain which excludes seamless connectivity to other domains such as IoT or IT. Hence, a harmonized and generic cross-platform interface, a so called Vehicle Abstraction Layer, between the vehicle and the cloud has to be developed. A key issue within this task is the design of an abstract description of data and functionality provided by a vehicle. Such a description allows to automatically generate code in order to bind any vehicle being described to a cloud system. This paper introduces such an abstract description by using Eclipse Vorto, an open source device description framework. It also presents the technology used as well as a description scheme. Furthermore, the approach is illustrated by an example scenario.","PeriodicalId":187747,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 17th International Symposium on A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132234761","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":"Non-integer bit estimation for enhanced inter-picture prediction in H.265/HEVC","authors":"S. Im, M. Ghandi, Ka‐Hou Chan","doi":"10.1109/WoWMoM.2016.7523586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM.2016.7523586","url":null,"abstract":"Many modern video encoders use the Lagrangian rate-distortion optimization (RDO) algorithm for mode decisions during the compression procedure. This paper proposes to increase the accuracy of inter picture prediction in H.265, by computing a non-integer number of bits for arithmetic coding of the syntax elements. During the RDO process the distortion and bit rate of each mode has to be estimated and a more accurate estimation leads to better-optimized decisions. Our method offers a significant gain in RDO performance, with simulations showing that an average bit-rate saving of up to 16.0% can be achieved for the H.265/HEVC codec.","PeriodicalId":187747,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 17th International Symposium on A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127249930","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":"Markov analysis of video transmission based on differential encoded HARQ","authors":"V. Vadori, A. V. Guglielmi, L. Badia","doi":"10.1109/WoWMoM.2016.7523557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM.2016.7523557","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we analyze hybrid automatic repeat request applied to the transmission of video content over the wireless channel. Retransmission-based techniques are usually applied to queueing systems assuming a homogeneous flow of identical packets, which are all transmitted and possibly retransmitted in the same way. However, multimedia packets are encoded with incremental methods leveraging spatial and temporal redundancy and as such, they have different roles and should be treated differently by the retransmission mechanism. Therefore, our work considers a selective retransmission scheme with unequal error protection applied to a multimedia flow subdivided into distinguishable packets. We assume a binary channel with memory and non-zero round-trip time. We utilize discrete-time Markov chains to model the channel and the transmission/retransmission system. This enables a closed-form derivation of performance metrics via Markov analysis. Numerical results are discussed and possible implications on multimedia communications are evaluated.","PeriodicalId":187747,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 17th International Symposium on A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)","volume":"07 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131045155","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":"Application recommendation at places for mobile users","authors":"Yanliang Liu, Yupeng Hu, Ruiyun Yu, Yonghe Liu","doi":"10.1109/WoWMoM.2016.7523553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM.2016.7523553","url":null,"abstract":"With the ever expanding mobile device ecosystem, mobile users face a vast and constantly growing application pool. At the same time, in our daily life, waiting occurs regularly at different places such as shopping centers, where mobile applications become the de facto means to consume the time periods. In this paper, we propose a novel application recommendation system that utilizes human activity information at different places, to better match the applications with the characteristics of the users current contexts. Specifically, we design a place/application matching model and present two application list recommending algorithms with bounded approximation ratio. We also implement the recommendation system on real mobile phones and conduct field studies to show its feasibility. Our experimental and simulation results show that the proposed schemes can achieve satisfactory results.","PeriodicalId":187747,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 17th International Symposium on A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129523483","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":"Downlink transmit power setting in LTE HetNets with carrier aggregation","authors":"Zana Limani Fazliu, C. Chiasserini, G. Dell'Aera","doi":"10.1109/WoWMoM.2016.7523513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM.2016.7523513","url":null,"abstract":"Carrier aggregation, which allows users to aggregate several component carriers to obtain up to 100 MHz of bandwidth, is one of the central features envisioned for next generation cellular networks. While this feature will enable support for higher data rates and improve quality of service, it may also be employed as an effective interference mitigation technique, especially in multi-tier heterogeneous networks. Having in mind that the aggregated component carriers may belong to different frequency bands and, hence, have varying propagation profiles, we argue that it is not necessary, indeed even harmful, to transmit at maximum power at all carriers, at all times. Rather, by using game theory, we design a distributed algorithm that lets eNodeBs and micro base stations dynamically adjust the downlink transmit power for the different component carriers. We compare our scheme to different power strategies combined with popular interference mitigation techniques, in a typical large-scale scenario, and show that our solution significantly outperforms the other strategies in terms of global network utility, power consumption and user throughput.","PeriodicalId":187747,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 17th International Symposium on A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125859354","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":"ResFi: A secure framework for self organized Radio Resource Management in residential WiFi networks","authors":"Sven Zehl, A. Zubow, M. Doering, A. Wolisz","doi":"10.1109/WoWMoM.2016.7523511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM.2016.7523511","url":null,"abstract":"In dense deployments of residential WiFi networks individual users suffer performance degradation due to both contention and interference. While Radio Resource Management (RRM) is known to mitigate this effects its application in residential WiFi networks being by nature unplanned and individually managed creates a big challenge. We propose ResFi - a framework supporting creation of RRM functionality in legacy deployments. The radio interfaces are used for efficient discovery of adjacent APs and as a side-channel to establish a secure communication among the individual Access Point Management Applications within a neighborhood over the wired Internet backbone. We have implemented a prototype of ResFi and studied its performance in our testbed. As a showcase we have implemented various RRM applications among others a distributed channel assignment algorithm using ResFi. ResFi is provided to the community as open source.","PeriodicalId":187747,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 17th International Symposium on A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127431357","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}