{"title":"Optimal distributed frequency planning for OFDMA femtocell networks","authors":"E. Rodrigues, F. Casadevall","doi":"10.1109/PIMRC.2013.6666645","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC.2013.6666645","url":null,"abstract":"Femtocell networks have gained momentum due to their important benefits, such as improved indoor coverage, higher areal spectral efficiency, enhanced signal quality, among others. Those benefits are only achievable if adequate deployment decisions and efficient resource allocation techniques are able to assure the seamless co-existence among Femtocell Access Points (FAPs) within the femtocell tier and between FAPs and macrocell users. In this work, we study the frequency planning problem on the femtocell tier deployed on a closed access mode and using a dedicated spectrum. A novel radio resource allocation technique that performs a mid/long-term frequency planning for the FAPs in the femtocell tier is proposed. It is concluded in this paper that the Dynamic Frequency Planning (DFP) algorithm based on the Branch and Bound technique is able to find the optimal frequency planning according to any desired criterion and that the proposed algorithm is suitable for implementation in a distributed 4G femtocell network regarding signaling overhead and latency aspects.","PeriodicalId":210993,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 24th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129177694","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":"Analysis of cooperative communication spatial modulation with imperfect channel estimation","authors":"R. Mesleh, S. Ikki","doi":"10.1109/PIMRC.2013.6666477","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC.2013.6666477","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, spatial modulation (SM) is considered in a cooperative communication system and the effect of imperfect channel estimation on the overall system performance is analyzed. SM is a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technique that considers the multiple transmit antennas as an added constellation points and utilizes them to boost the spectral efficiency. In our analysis, a wireless communication system, where a source communicating with a destination through a direct link and multiple decode and forward (DF) relays, is considered. Imperfect channel knowledge is assumed at each relay and at the destination node. In cooperative mode, only the relays that correctly decode the source signal forward the decoded message to the destination. A closed form expression of the pair wise error probability (PEP) is obtained for a system consisting of two transmit antennas, multiple DF relays and single receive antenna and a tight upper bound is given for the average error probability. As well, asymptotic expression for the PEP at high signal to noise ratio (SNR) is derived.","PeriodicalId":210993,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 24th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC)","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121034269","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":"Improved frequency reuse schemes with horizontal sector offset for LTE","authors":"D. López-Pérez, H. Claussen, Lester T. W. Ho","doi":"10.1109/PIMRC.2013.6666501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC.2013.6666501","url":null,"abstract":"Macrocellular networks with frequency reuse across sectors of the same eNodeB and neighbouring eNodeBs suffer from high interference at the cell boundaries, resulting in an uneven distribution of User Equipment (UE) throughputs. Recently, it has been shown that for two-carrier HSDPA networks a horizontal sector offset configuration for the second carrier can significantly enhance network performance at the cost of an increased number of handovers. In this paper, this sector offset configuration is extended to LTE through a novel approach, which allows deploying offset antennas in eNodeBs without significantly increasing the number of handovers. The proposed sector offset configuration is compatible with current channel dependent schedulers, and provides significant gains. Simulation results show that for LTE the proposed sector offset configuration can increase the average UE throughput and 5%-tile UE throughput by up to 22% and 32%, respectively, while slightly increasing the number of handovers compared to the traditional eNodeB configuration. Moreover, results show that the new configuration can significantly reduce the handover failure rate by up to 69%.","PeriodicalId":210993,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 24th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115278151","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":"Multiple primary user spectrum sensing for unknown noise statistics","authors":"Lu Wei, O. Tirkkonen","doi":"10.1109/PIMRC.2013.6666259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC.2013.6666259","url":null,"abstract":"Multi-antenna spectrum sensing algorithms for cognitive radio are receiving a lot of attention recently. In this paper, we consider multi-antenna detection when the noise covariance matrix is assumed to be arbitrary and unknown. The studies leading to this paper have been motivated by the existence but typically unknown noise correlation in practice. A multiple primary user detector, derived from the generalized likelihood ratio criterion, is analyzed in such a scenario. We calculate the exact moments of the test statistics involved, which lead to a simple and accurate analytical formula for the false alarm probability. The result is obtained by utilizing tools from multivariate analysis as well as moment based approximations. Simulations are conducted to examine accuracy of the derived result, with the achieved accuracy being reasonably good. From the considered simulation settings, performance gain over existing detection algorithms is observed in scenarios with arbitrary but unknown noise correlation and multiple primary users.","PeriodicalId":210993,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 24th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC)","volume":"135 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114464467","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":"Smart channel scanning with minimized communication interruptions over IEEE 802.11 WLANs","authors":"Mehmet Fatih Tüysüz, H. A. Mantar","doi":"10.1109/PIMRC.2013.6666512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC.2013.6666512","url":null,"abstract":"In IEEE 802.11 wireless networks, periodic channel scanning is an essential procedure to discover available access points (APs) in vicinity and to achieve fast handover. However, this procedure leads to unnecessary overhead in wireless networks and also interrupts ongoing communications of stations. In this paper, we propose a smart channel scanning scheme that minimizes the communication interruptions. In the proposed scheme, periodic channel scanning is scheduled based on the predefined channel scanning intervals and activated after a successful frame transmission only if the mobile station is on move and the received signal strength indicator value (RSSI) drops below a pre-specified threshold value. Analytical and simulation results show that the proposed channel scanning scheme reduces the channel scanning overhead dramatically, minimizes communication interruptions and improves the overall throughputs of stations.","PeriodicalId":210993,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 24th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC)","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115050350","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":"Performance of coarse relay site planning in composite fading/shadowing environments","authors":"Ö. Bulakci, Jyri Hämäläinen, E. Schulz","doi":"10.1109/PIMRC.2013.6666603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC.2013.6666603","url":null,"abstract":"Relay deployments promise to alleviate the limitations of conventional macrocell networks, such as poor indoor penetration and coverage holes in a cost-efficient way. In this context, the capacity of the wireless relay link between a relay node (RN) and its serving base station (BS) has a crucial role in the achievable end-to-end performance. The deployment flexibility of RNs, which mainly stems from the wireless relay link, compact physical characteristics, and low-power consumption, can be exploited by relay site planning (RSP) to overcome the limitations of the relay link and, thus, enhance the system performance. To this end, RSP is carried out via selecting an RN deployment location from a discrete set of alternatives considering the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) on the relay link as the selection criterion. In practice, the so-called coarse RSP takes into account only large-scale fading due to shadowing. Nevertheless, as RNs are stationary, the wireless channels pertaining to relay deployments are subject to simultaneous impairments by both shadowing and multi-path fading, i.e., composite fading/shadowing. In this paper, we present the performance of coarse RSP that can be used for planning and dimensioning of two-hop cellular relay networks in composite fading/shadowing environments, where co-channel interference is also present. The relay link is modeled by Nakagami-lognormal distribution while the access link between a mobile terminal (MT) and its serving RN is modeled by Rician-lognormal distribution. Furthermore, we provide an accurate analytical framework through closed-form expressions for relay link SINR, link rates, and end-to-end rate. Results show that coarse RSP can still yield high performance improvements considering composite fading/shadowing channels.","PeriodicalId":210993,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 24th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC)","volume":"153 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122772558","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}
K. Kaushik, Deepak Mishra, S. De, S. Basagni, W. Heinzelman, K. Chowdhury, S. Jana
{"title":"Experimental demonstration of multi-hop RF energy transfer","authors":"K. Kaushik, Deepak Mishra, S. De, S. Basagni, W. Heinzelman, K. Chowdhury, S. Jana","doi":"10.1109/PIMRC.2013.6666195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC.2013.6666195","url":null,"abstract":"Batteries of field nodes in a wireless sensor network pose an upper limit on the network lifetime. Energy harvesting and harvesting aware medium access control protocols have the potential to provide uninterrupted network operation, as they aim to replenish the lost energy so that energy neutral operation of the energy harvesting nodes can be achieved. To further improve the energy harvesting process, there is a need for novel schemes so that maximum energy is harvested in a minimum possible time. Multi-hop radio frequency (RF) energy transfer is one such solution that addresses these needs. With the optimal placement of energy relay nodes, multi-hop RF energy transfer can save energy of the source as well as time for the harvesting process. In this work we experimentally demonstrate multi-hop RF energy transfer, wherein two-hop energy transfer is shown to achieve significant energy and time savings with respect to the single-hop case. It is also shown that the gain obtained can be translated to energy transfer range extension.","PeriodicalId":210993,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 24th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC)","volume":"286 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124264925","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":"Power efficient 60 GHz wireless communication networks with relays","authors":"Linhao Dong, Sumei Sun, Xu Zhu, Yeow-Khiang Chia","doi":"10.1109/PIMRC.2013.6666625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC.2013.6666625","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we study the power consumption in relay networks of the 60 GHz wireless communication based on amplify-and-forward (AF) and decode-and-forward (DF) relaying strategies. We propose a total power consumption model including drive power, decoding power, and power consumption of power amplifier (PA). This model is formulated as a function of drive power, which gives an easy access to the system level optimisation. The optimal drive power that minimises the total power consumption while satisfying the performance requirement can be found by numerical searching method. The impact of relay's locations on the total power consumption is also investigated. We show that, with the same performance requirement, in the small source-relay separation case AF consumes less power than DF, while with larger separation, AF consumes significantly more power than DF. This is different from the common intuition that DF is always more power consuming than AF due to the extra decoding power consumption at relay, which is due to the fact that the large source-relay separation limits the effective destination signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in AF, leading to more substantial decoding power consumption in the many more decoding iterations than DF.","PeriodicalId":210993,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 24th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC)","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124783640","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":"Localization in mobile wireless sensor networks via sequential global optimization","authors":"Ido Nevat, G. Peters, I. Collings","doi":"10.1109/PIMRC.2013.6666146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC.2013.6666146","url":null,"abstract":"We develop a novel approach to source localization in mobile wireless sensor networks. Standard approaches make explicit assumptions relating to the statistical characteristics of the physical process and propagation environments which result from distributional model assumptions in a likelihood-based inference method. In contrast, we adopt an approach known in statistics as a non-parametric modeling framework which allows one to relax the number of required statistical assumptions, specifically with regard to the distributional properties of the received signal and the physical process. This is achieved via a re-formulation of the problem as a flexible non-parametric regression model via the framework of Gaussian Processes. Coupling this modeling perspective with a Bayesian optimization mechanism, we frame the global optimization objective as a sequential decision problem. We then develop an efficient algorithm to sequentially select the optimal location at which the mobile sensor should obtain observations under communication and mobility constraints. Simulation results demonstrate the efficiency of the algorithm at achieving accurate localization in a wireless sensor network.","PeriodicalId":210993,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 24th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126095726","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 framework for calculation of TV white space availability subject to the protection of DTT and PMSE","authors":"H. Karimi","doi":"10.1109/PIMRC.2013.6666615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC.2013.6666615","url":null,"abstract":"The UK/European framework for access to the UHF TV band by white space devices (WSDs) is predicated on the communication of information on TV white space (TVWS) availability from white space databases (WSDBs) to WSDs. This information is in the form of location- and frequency-specific maximum permitted WSD radiated power levels. These levels are calculated in such a way so as to afford protection to the two incumbent (licensed) uses within the band, namely Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT), and Programme Making and Special Events (PMSE), as well as users of spectrum outside the band. In this paper we first outline the proposed framework for access to TV white spaces in the UK, describing the interactions between the regulator, WSDBs and WSDs. We then present the calculations required for the computation of maximum permitted WSD radiated power levels, accounting for nationwide DTT coverage and PMSE assignments.","PeriodicalId":210993,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 24th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124137612","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}