D. Tkachenko, N. Kornet, A. Lagunov, D. Kravtsov, A. Kurbanov, R. Khandelwal, Luyang Li
{"title":"A possible extension for iDTV platform to support interactions with home appliances","authors":"D. Tkachenko, N. Kornet, A. Lagunov, D. Kravtsov, A. Kurbanov, R. Khandelwal, Luyang Li","doi":"10.1109/CCNC.2006.1593021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCNC.2006.1593021","url":null,"abstract":"Extensions to interactive digital TV (iDTV) platforms enabling interaction of iDTV applications with devices in the home network may create additional value for consumers. Recently, CableLabs has issued a specification for an OCAP Home Networking Extension that describes Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to enable sharing of content between OCAP compliant devices in a home network. The next logical step is to expand the capabilities of this home networking extension to enable iDTV applications to interact with other types of devices connected to the home network. In this paper we propose a framework, called the DTV Home Networking Framework (DTV-HNF), that provides mechanisms for interaction with devices in the home network in a manner that is independent of device functionality and underlying network technology. The approach is illustrated by implementation of prototypes demonstrating interaction of iDTV applications with devices connected using OSGi and UPnP home networking frameworks.","PeriodicalId":194551,"journal":{"name":"CCNC 2006. 2006 3rd IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2006.","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115175731","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 peer-to-peer framework for cost-effective on-demand media streaming","authors":"Xin Liu, Jun Wang, S. Vuong","doi":"10.1109/CCNC.2006.1593038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCNC.2006.1593038","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a novel peer-to-peer (P2P) framework for cost-effective on-demand media streaming, named BitVampire. BitVampire's primary design goal is to aggregate peers' storage and upstream bandwidths to facilitate on-demand media streaming. To achieve this goal, BitVampire splits published videos into segments and distributes them to different peers. When a peer (or a receiver) wants to watch a video, it (i) searches the corresponding segments, then (ii) selfishly determines the best subset of supplying peers and parallel downloads the desired media content from these peers in real-time mode. In BitVampire, participating peers help each other to get the desired content, thus powerful servers/proxies are not necessary, which makes it a cost-effective approach. To demonstrate the feasibility of BitVampire, We implemented a prototype using Java and JMF (Java Media Framework), and conducted some preliminary experiments.","PeriodicalId":194551,"journal":{"name":"CCNC 2006. 2006 3rd IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2006.","volume":"116 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126906164","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":"Propagation characteristics of intra-body communications for body area networks","authors":"J. Ruiz, Jiang Xu, S. Shimamoto","doi":"10.1109/CCNC.2006.1593076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCNC.2006.1593076","url":null,"abstract":"Body area networks (BAN) will become increasingly important in the future personal communication systems. We believe that intra-body communications (IBC) based on near field electromagnetic waves is a suitable solution for BAN. This paper presents experimental measurements of the frequency and time domain responses in order to investigate the transmission characteristics of the human body as a conductor of low power high frequency radio signals (up to 3GHz). In the measurements, several distances between transmitter and receiver (up to a long distance from the head to the foot) and six test people (to study the possible variation results due to physiological body effects) have been considered. Besides analyzing the intra-body channel response, we also aim to define a suitable frequency range for IBC. Finally, this paper also presents an initial evaluation study of several digital modulation schemes in order to investigate the optimal technique for IBC.","PeriodicalId":194551,"journal":{"name":"CCNC 2006. 2006 3rd IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2006.","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126207285","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 providing confidentiality in link state routing protocol","authors":"Dijiang Huang, A. Sinha, D. Medhi","doi":"10.1109/CCNC.2006.1593122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCNC.2006.1593122","url":null,"abstract":"In current network routing domains, routing infor- mation exchange usually lacks protection based on confidentiality. This makes network routing vulnerable to a variety of security attacks. In this paper, we present a framework to provide confidentiality for a link state routing protocol. This framework involves creation of a trust structure among routers as well as key management. Routing information is encrypted so that it can be accessed only by authorized routers. We present an implementation framework for our approach by extending Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), a commonly deployed link-state routing protocol. Based on our performance assessment, we have found that the additional cost in implementing our scheme has fairly moderate impact on the overall performance.","PeriodicalId":194551,"journal":{"name":"CCNC 2006. 2006 3rd IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2006.","volume":"22 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121012713","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":"Dynamic bandwidth allocation schemes in hybrid TDM/WDM passive optical networks","authors":"A. R. Dhaini, C. Assi, A. Shami","doi":"10.1109/CCNC.2006.1592982","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCNC.2006.1592982","url":null,"abstract":"Ethernet Passive Optical Networks (EPONs) are considered the most promising solutions for upgrading the cur- rent congested access networks to enable the delivery of broad- band integrated services. Although current EPON architectures are economically feasible, they are however bandwidth limited. In this paper, we discuss a simple upgrade architecture from EPON to WDM-PON. We present various Dynamic Wavelength and Bandwidth Allocation algorithms (DWBAs) that exploit both inter-channel and intra-channel statistical multiplexing in order to achieve good performance. We use extensive simulation experiments to validate our reasoning. I. INTRODUCTION","PeriodicalId":194551,"journal":{"name":"CCNC 2006. 2006 3rd IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2006.","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126587823","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 rate and power control using game theory","authors":"M. R. Musku, A. Chronopoulos, D. Popescu","doi":"10.1109/CCNC.2006.1593240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCNC.2006.1593240","url":null,"abstract":"Efficient use of available resources in next gener- ation wireless systems require control of both data rate and transmitted power for mobile terminals. In this paper the prob- lem of joint transmission rate and power control is approached from the perspective of non-cooperative game theory, and an algorithm for joint rate and power control is presented. A new utility function for mobile terminals is defined, and a detailed analysis of the existence and uniqueness of Nash equilibrium for the non-cooperative joint transmission rate and power control game is presented. The utility function depends on the signal to interference ratio (SIR), and can be adjusted to provide the desired Quality of Service (QoS) requirement. Numerical simulations that compare the proposed algorithm with alternative algorithms developed using game theory are also presented in the paper.","PeriodicalId":194551,"journal":{"name":"CCNC 2006. 2006 3rd IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2006.","volume":"299 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124280707","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":"Advanced coding schemes for a multiband OFDM ultrawideband system towards 1 Gbps","authors":"T. Lunttila, S. Iraji, H. Berg","doi":"10.1109/CCNC.2006.1593084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCNC.2006.1593084","url":null,"abstract":"Advanced coding schemes such as parallel concatenated zigzag (PCZZ) and LDPC codes are shown to provide performance close to turbo codes. In this paper we propose PCZZ and structured LDPC coding for an MB-OFDM UWB system with 16-QAM modulation aiming at increasing the data rate of the current system up to 1 Gbps. We evaluate the performance of the PCZZ and LDPC coding schemes in such a system. In particular, it is shown that the PCZZ and LDPC codes provide 3-4 dB gain in packet error rate compared to convolutional codes. We also address the link budget and achievable ranges for such a system with different coding rates. The proposed PCZZ and structured LDPC codes may be considered as a potential channel coding scheme for the future Multiband OFDM UWB systems providing data rates up to 1 Gbps or higher.","PeriodicalId":194551,"journal":{"name":"CCNC 2006. 2006 3rd IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2006.","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122530769","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":"Reservation based medium access control protocol for wireless sensor networks","authors":"N. Aslam, W. Robertson, S. Sivakumar, W. Phillips","doi":"10.1109/CCNC.2006.1593182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCNC.2006.1593182","url":null,"abstract":"Most of the proposed MAC and routing protocols for \u0000wireless sensor networks (WSNs) consider energy efficiency as the main objective and assume data traffic with unconstrained delivery requirements. However, applications such as rescue and disaster recovery, and tracking moving objects demand end-toend performance guarantees as the timely delivery of data is as important as energy efficiency. This paper presents a reservation based medium access control (MAC) for applications with different QoS priorities in a clustered WSN environment. The protocol is based on a combination of CDMA, TDMA and contention based access mechanisms. The protocol employs a slot assignment algorithm to handle adaptive resource allocation in a clustered environment. Simulations that demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed MAC protocol and the resource allocation is discussed.","PeriodicalId":194551,"journal":{"name":"CCNC 2006. 2006 3rd IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2006.","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125016994","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 and joint-suboptimum maximum-likelihood detection for FH/BFSK in multitone jamming","authors":"Yi-Chen Chen","doi":"10.1109/CCNC.2006.1593159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCNC.2006.1593159","url":null,"abstract":"Without knowledge of jamming state indication and the resultant signal-plus-jammer tone as required in [1], we derive the optimum maximum-likelihood (ML) non-coherent detector for FH/BFSK systems in multitone jamming and additive white Gaussian noise. Due to the huge complexity of the optimum ML detector, we further propose a novel complexity-reduced scheme which is called joint-suboptimum maximum-likelihood (JSML) detector. Simulation results show the superiority of the proposed detectors over other existing diversity combining approaches. The analytical performance of the JSML detector with single diversity is also provided and verified by simulation results. In moderate and high SNR conditions, the JSML detector performs slightly worse than the optimum ML detector while it achieves much complexity reduction.","PeriodicalId":194551,"journal":{"name":"CCNC 2006. 2006 3rd IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2006.","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122064385","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":"Designing a sociable robot system forweight maintenance","authors":"Cory D. Kidd, Cynthia Breazeal","doi":"10.1109/CCNC.2006.1593026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCNC.2006.1593026","url":null,"abstract":"Human-robot interaction research is maturing to the point where we can build systems that interact with people in their daily lives and provide support for particular needs. We propose a sociable robot system to help people who are losing weight to better track their progress. We describe related work in sociable robotics and ubiquitous computing and define the term sociable robot systems as systems that comprise a sociable robot, other technological devices, methods for interaction, and methods for relationship creation and maintenance. The system currently being implemented is described as well as the plans for testing the system in a real-world setting.","PeriodicalId":194551,"journal":{"name":"CCNC 2006. 2006 3rd IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2006.","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123273656","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}