{"title":"Tunable Fabry-Perot interferometer based on fiber Bragg gratings","authors":"I. Ashry, H. Shalaby","doi":"10.1109/ICTEL.2010.5478865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTEL.2010.5478865","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a new architecture for tunable Fabry-Perot (FP) interferometer using fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs). The main feature of the architecture is its ability to increase the finesse using a potentially low cost technique. Furthermore, it decreases the power loss of the filtered channel and can be implemented easily in practice.","PeriodicalId":208094,"journal":{"name":"2010 17th International Conference on Telecommunications","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130166411","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}
G. Araniti, A. Iera, A. Molinaro, A. Raschellà, A. Umbert
{"title":"On the optimization of power assignment to support multicast applications in HAP-based systems","authors":"G. Araniti, A. Iera, A. Molinaro, A. Raschellà, A. Umbert","doi":"10.1109/ICTEL.2010.5478743","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTEL.2010.5478743","url":null,"abstract":"The goal of this research work is to investigate how efficient High Altitude Platforms (HAPs) can be in supporting Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) in scenarios in which the terrestrial coverage is not available. Specifically, we propose to implement an effective Radio Resources Management (RRM) policy into the HAP Radio Network Controller (H-RNC), whose main aim is to increase the overall system capacity. The proposed technique achieves its goal by dynamically selecting the most efficient multicast transport channel in terms of power consumption, chosen amongst Dedicated Channel (DCH), Forward Access Channel (FACH), and High Speed Downlink Shared Channel (HS-DSCH). Advantages deriving from the joint use of channels belonging to different categories are exploited. Results achieved when using the proposed RRM are quite manifest and witnesses to the necessity of providing such a feature when deploying integrated HAP/Terrestrial platforms supporting MBMS services.","PeriodicalId":208094,"journal":{"name":"2010 17th International Conference on Telecommunications","volume":"457 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120969780","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":"Spectral-domain analysis of a resistive patch antenna with uniaxial substrate","authors":"A. Boufrioua","doi":"10.1109/ICTEL.2010.5478772","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTEL.2010.5478772","url":null,"abstract":"The moment method technique has been developed to examine the scattering properties of a rectangular microstrip patch antenna with a surface resistance. Entire domain sinusoid basis functions without edge condition and roof top sub-domain basis functions are introduced to expand the unknown current on the metal patches. The boundary condition for the electric field was used to derive an integral equation for the electric current. The necessary terms for representing the surface resistance on the patch were derived and were included in the equation in the form of a resistance matrix. Effects of uniaxial anisotropy in the substrate on the complex resonant frequency, the half band width, the radar cross section and the radiation of the microstrip patch antenna are also investigated. Comparative study between our results and those available in the literature is done and showed a very good agreement.","PeriodicalId":208094,"journal":{"name":"2010 17th International Conference on Telecommunications","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127530713","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 cross layer protocol with hybrid multi channel MC-CDMA/OFDMA","authors":"A. N. Plymoth","doi":"10.1109/ICTEL.2010.5478811","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTEL.2010.5478811","url":null,"abstract":"Existing Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) networks solutions based on IEEE 802.11 have be known to perform badly in the presence of noise and interference. These networks therefore have problems with the scalability of crowded networks, with the result being highly variable delays rendering them unsuitable to delay sensitive applications such as voice and video. Here, interference causes significant unfairness and loss of throughput. This paper presents a novel protocol that solves many of the problemes of 802.11 by using a combined OFDMA and MC-CDMA PHY layer to create a highly robust and 802.11 type system. We describe how the MAC protocol should interact in a novel way with this PHY for maximized channel utilization, how code should be assigned without a centralized entity and how code collisions should be avoided. Extensive simulations is performed that show that our protocol outperforms 802.11, and achieves improved throughput, lowered delay with significant fairness improvement.","PeriodicalId":208094,"journal":{"name":"2010 17th International Conference on Telecommunications","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131272935","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 feasibility of Vehicle-to-Internet communications using unplanned wireless networks","authors":"I. Amdouni, F. Filali","doi":"10.1109/ICTEL.2010.5478778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTEL.2010.5478778","url":null,"abstract":"Advances in wireless communication technologies as well as the low cost of wireless equipment have increased the ubiquity of network connectivity, as is illustrated by the large deployment of IEEE 802.11 access points (APs). Anytime, anywhere, users are being connected to networks and consequently they expect more services on their mobile devices. Internet access from vehicles, in particular short lived connections, to roadside APs is one of the most challenging of these services. We wonder if those APs could offer Internet connectivity to vehicular networks especially for delay-tolerant applications. A preliminary requirement to make this possible is to provide the vehicle communication router with a list of available APs in its neighborhood. In this paper, we introduce ScanCar, a layered measurement system for wireless infrastructure discovery, which is integrated in the vehicle's router to build and maintain a database of WiFi APs within the vehicle's range. Then, we report the results of a real measurement study conducted on the data set ScanCar provided through wardriving in different regions of the French Riviera. For instance, in Antibes Juan-les-Pins, which is a residential city, our findings show that the scan duration of the 2369 discovered APs, varies between 200 ms and 664 ms. Despite that among those APs only 8.2% were not protected, we found that on average, clients can potentially remain in at least one AP's coverage area for 23.86 seconds, which can be considered as a very promising result toward the development of services for vehicle-to-Internet opportunistic communications.","PeriodicalId":208094,"journal":{"name":"2010 17th International Conference on Telecommunications","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131454972","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":"Reliability-Ordered DFE for vector systems","authors":"B. Cardiff, M. Flanagan, A. Fagan","doi":"10.1109/ICTEL.2010.5478835","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTEL.2010.5478835","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, detectors are considered for a general class of vector systems. A novel detector, the Reliability-Ordered Decision Feedback Equalizer (RO-DFE), is presented in which the ordering of decisions is done in accordance with reliability metrics helping to mitigate the problem of the error propagation inherent to all DFEs. The proposed structure derives the reliability metrics from an initial linear MMSE equalizer. This yields the major advantage that soft decisions from this equalizer can be reused within the DFE resulting in only a minor overall complexity increase. For an important class of channel independent OFDM pre-coders, the equivalence between a hypothetical detector and one operating on an equivalent AWGN channel is established. This is then used to derive a lower bound on the performance of a Maximum Likelihood (ML) detector in terms of Bit Error Rate for QPSK, and in terms of Symbol Error Rate for M-ary QAM over a maximum diversity Rayleigh fading channel. Simulation results are presented showing significant gains of the proposed detection system over conventional ones. The newly derived ML lower bound for QPSK is also compared to a simulated ML implementation and found to be accurate under good SNR conditions.","PeriodicalId":208094,"journal":{"name":"2010 17th International Conference on Telecommunications","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128174241","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":"Distributed relay selection strategy based on source-relay channel","authors":"Zied Bali, W. Ajib, H. Boujemaa","doi":"10.1109/ICTEL.2010.5478647","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTEL.2010.5478647","url":null,"abstract":"Recent results on cooperative networks have shown great potential in their ability to improve the system performance in the presence of fading channels by using different users' antennas. However, traditional centralized relays selection needs considerable overhead and signaling to exchange the channel state information. In this paper, we propose a simple “ Amplify and Forward” distributed method to find the best source-relay path from a set of possible cooperating relays. The method requires no communication among the relays, assumes no prior knowledge of network geometry and is based only on instantaneous source-relay wireless channel measurements. Each relay compares its source-relay SNR with a threshold and decides to participate or not to the communication independently of other relays decisions. The threshold is chosen by maximizing the probability to select only one relay. Through simulations we show that the proposed threshold method achieves high capacity gains while keeping the outage probability at a reasonable level.","PeriodicalId":208094,"journal":{"name":"2010 17th International Conference on Telecommunications","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128406992","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 novel routing with data mining in disconnected mobile ad-hoc networks","authors":"B. Wu, F. Lin, Jiliu Zhou","doi":"10.1109/ICTEL.2010.5478809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTEL.2010.5478809","url":null,"abstract":"During last two decades, Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) has been in widespread use. However, in some critical applications such as in battlefield or area sensing, due to the node mobility, limited power and sparse deployment density, MANETs may suffer network partitioning. Without a stable end to end path, these challenged scenarios could cause most existing ad hoc networks protocols to fail. In this paper, we propose a new carrier-based routing scheme with data mining method, named SARD (Self-Adaptive Routing for Disconnected MANETs). In our scheme, nodes are classified by their mobility patterns dynamically. Several Mobile Assisted-carriers (MA) are attached to each class to help data transmission. By exploiting the regularity of nodes mobility in real world, the SARD scheme improves data delivery performance in these disconnected scenarios. The simulation results show that our scheme outperforms Message Ferry approaches, and also adapts well when network scenario changes.","PeriodicalId":208094,"journal":{"name":"2010 17th International Conference on Telecommunications","volume":"329 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134160002","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":"An overview on Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks","authors":"Wang Yifan, Zhang Zaichen, Bi Guangguo","doi":"10.1109/ICTEL.2010.5478812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTEL.2010.5478812","url":null,"abstract":"Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks (UW-ASNs) is of growing research interest. This paper gives description on underwater channel model. It overviews transmission schemes in data link layer and network layer, and simulates different transmission schemes. Finally, it offers comparison and guides for future development.","PeriodicalId":208094,"journal":{"name":"2010 17th International Conference on Telecommunications","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124309866","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":"Outage performance of Decode-and-Forward partial selection in Nakagami-m fading channels","authors":"M. Benjillali, Mohamed-Slim Alouini","doi":"10.1109/ICTEL.2010.5478803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTEL.2010.5478803","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we investigate the outage performance of Decode-and-Forward with partial selection relaying in dualhop cooperative Nakagami-m fading links. The source, based on the unique knowledge of local first hop channel state information, selects the best relay to increase the chances of successful decoding and hence the possibility of cooperation when the direct link is also available. After deriving the exact distribution of the sum of two gamma variates with the same shape parameter, the outage probability of the system-with and without the direct link-is obtained in closed-form. We also derive the ∊-outage capacity in different particular cases, and the obtained results- when the channel model is reduced to a Rayleigh fading-are either new or correspond to those previously obtained in other works. Simulation results confirm the accuracy of our analysis for a large selection of system and fading parameters.","PeriodicalId":208094,"journal":{"name":"2010 17th International Conference on Telecommunications","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123873627","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}