{"title":"Smart constellation selection for precise vehicle positioning in urban canyons using a software-defined receiver solution","authors":"B. Niehoefer, Florian Schweikowski, C. Wietfeld","doi":"10.1109/SCVT.2013.6735995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCVT.2013.6735995","url":null,"abstract":"Positioning techniques based on satellite navigation systems are nowadays standard in most commercial vehicles. But GPS receivers in general are effected by multipath and atmospheric effects and hence their performance may be decreased, especially in challenging environments that directly affects the usage of satellite-based positioning in traffic-relevant and by that safety-critical systems. Therefore, this paper describes, based on an exemplary implementation of an Advanced Software-Defined radio receiver (ASDR) for Global Navigation Satellite Systems, the impact of the direct receiver surrounding. In addition, a so-called Smart Constellation Selection (SCS) as pre-positioning routine will be introduced to increase the accuracy by just using already available data at the receiver side. Next to the implementation of the ASDR itself, the functionality and performance of the SCS will be explained. In addition, this contribution contains the introduction of a freely available database with geo-referenced GPS measurements including web-based analysis functionalities to enable other researches to test and evaluate their ideas for future GNSS enhancements.","PeriodicalId":219477,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 20th Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux (SCVT)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122598718","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 security protocol with minimum interference for UWB and WiFi networks","authors":"Wu Huayi, Zhidong Shen, Baohua Bai","doi":"10.1109/SCVT.2013.6736004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCVT.2013.6736004","url":null,"abstract":"As one type of the attacks happening in MAC layer of wireless networks, a selfish behavior can degrade network performance significantly. In this paper, we studied a hybrid wireless network including UWB devices and WiFi devices together and analyze the characteristics of selfish behavior and the methods how to expose it. In order to improve the self-giving cooperation between the nodes in hybrid wireless networks and increase the fairness index of the whole networks, a security mechanism based on a puzzle model was proposed in this paper. The punishment mechanism was used both in a common control channel and a data channel. And then, we proposed an optimal algorithm to reduce the interference of networks. The results of stimulations show that the proposed protocol improves the self-giving cooperation between nodes in the networks and make the interference of the network minimum.","PeriodicalId":219477,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 20th Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux (SCVT)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122122198","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 source and channel decoding of variable length codes based on pruned VLC-block trellis","authors":"G. Tu, Jing Dai","doi":"10.1109/SCVT.2013.6736000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCVT.2013.6736000","url":null,"abstract":"Joint source and channel decoding (JSCD) of variable length codes (VLCs) has been attracting considerable attention in recent years. It is a capacity-approaching technique to decode in an iterative way, or known as iterative source-channel decoding (ISCD) of VLCs. When the side information of both bit length and symbol length of the VLC sequence are available, VLC-block trellis can be constructed, which exploits the knowledge of both lengths. The ISCD based on VLC-block trellis generally performs better than that based on the more widely used Balakirsky trellis. However, the complexity of VLC-block trellis is much higher, and grows exponentially with the sequence size. In this paper we study a sub-optimal solution by pruning some states and branches of the trellis. Simulation results show that this method can adjustably reduce complexity with acceptable performance loss.","PeriodicalId":219477,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 20th Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux (SCVT)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129367124","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}
Qing Wang, Diptanil DebBarma, S. Groot, I. Niemegeers, A. Lo
{"title":"Cell switching mechanisms for access point sharing in WLAN over radio-over-fiber systems","authors":"Qing Wang, Diptanil DebBarma, S. Groot, I. Niemegeers, A. Lo","doi":"10.1109/SCVT.2013.6736002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCVT.2013.6736002","url":null,"abstract":"Radio-over-fiber (RoF) technology is a promising candidate to provide high data rates and ubiquitous coverage by distributing small cells over the service area. For wireless LAN (WLAN) application in RoF systems, an access points (AP) can be shared among multiple small cells. The medium access mechanisms in the distributed coordination function (DCF) under this context encounter some issues due to the carrier sensing failure between the nodes in different cells. For alleviating this problem and also supporting flexible AP sharing, two switching mechanisms are discussed. One employs a time division scheme for sharing the APs and the other a selective reception of uplink frames among the associated cells. Both approaches are shown to be effective. The proposed mechanisms do not require changes in the existing protocols on both the client side and AP side. And they are complementary to each other due to their different switching principles.","PeriodicalId":219477,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 20th Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux (SCVT)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128168778","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}
Hao Gao, Yan Wu, M. Matters-Kammerer, D. Milosevic, J. Linnartz, P. Baltus
{"title":"System analysis and energy model of 60GHz radio-triggered wireless sensor receiver","authors":"Hao Gao, Yan Wu, M. Matters-Kammerer, D. Milosevic, J. Linnartz, P. Baltus","doi":"10.1109/SCVT.2013.6735999","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCVT.2013.6735999","url":null,"abstract":"The optimization of a wireless system towards low power performance is not straightforward, it is the combination and trade-offs among different communication layers. In the physical layer, the frequency and the data rate are the fundamental parameters for optimizing power consumption in the wireless communication system. The radio-triggered passive wireless sensor receiver is a solution to achieve a low power radio, enabling a longer lifetime. In this paper, the system level analysis of the radio-triggered passive wireless sensor receiver is provided, including the trade-off between frequency and data rate. On transistor level, the detailed power consumption models of the RF front-end are provided. Based on the analysis, a mm-Wave radio-triggered passive wireless sensor receiver is proposed.","PeriodicalId":219477,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 20th Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux (SCVT)","volume":"336 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125793837","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}
Niccolo De Caro, W. Colitti, K. Steenhaut, Giuseppe Mangino, G. Reali
{"title":"Comparison of two lightweight protocols for smartphone-based sensing","authors":"Niccolo De Caro, W. Colitti, K. Steenhaut, Giuseppe Mangino, G. Reali","doi":"10.1109/SCVT.2013.6735994","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCVT.2013.6735994","url":null,"abstract":"Smartphones are equipped with numerous sensors and have become sophisticated sensing platforms. However, several sensing applications running on a smartphone can degrade the device performance. This can be overcome by using lightweight application protocols which improve the smartphone performance in terms of bandwidth consumption, battery lifetime and communication latency. This work focuses on two emerging application protocols: the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) and the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP). Although both protocols have been designed for highly constrained environments such as sensors, they are also appropriate to be adopted in smartphone applications. We provide a qualitative and quantitative comparison between MQTT and CoAP when used as smartphone application protocols and we give preliminary indications on the application scenarios in which either protocol should be adopted. While MQTT has already been adopted in smartphone applications, CoAP is relatively new and has up to now mainly been considered for sensors and actuators. Our comparison shows that CoAP can be a valid alternative to MQTT for certain application scenarios.","PeriodicalId":219477,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 20th Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux (SCVT)","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130898118","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 toolkit for real-time analysis of dynamic large-scale networks","authors":"R. V. D. Bovenkamp, F. Kuipers","doi":"10.1109/SCVT.2013.6735997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCVT.2013.6735997","url":null,"abstract":"Networks are used in many research domains to model the relationships between entities. We present a publicly available toolkit to extract graphs from datasets or data streams and to analyse their properties. The graph extraction is based on a set of rules that define the links between entities in a set or stream of self-contained events involving sets of entities. As the extracted graph is dynamic and, moreover, can be spread over multiple machines, we include the class of gossip algorithms to analyse them. In addition, the toolkit also contains algorithms to compute metrics of static snapshots of the dynamic graph.","PeriodicalId":219477,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 20th Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux (SCVT)","volume":"211 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131648126","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":"Rules of thumb for predicting path loss in body coupled communication channels","authors":"J. Linnartz","doi":"10.1109/SCVT.2013.6736009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCVT.2013.6736009","url":null,"abstract":"In Body-Coupled Communication, a signal propagates as an Electric Field around the human body. It can be generated and picked-up by a capacitive transducer near the skin. This paper proposes approximate expressions for the path loss in such channels and compares these with more accurate calculations of an equivalent circuit. In particular, the authentication use case is addressed of a transmit tag in the immediate vicinity of the body, e.g. in a wallet, and a reader tag at some distance from the human, e.g. near a hand reaching out.","PeriodicalId":219477,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 20th Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux (SCVT)","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123093304","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":"Priority-aware extended eOCSA frame packing algorithm evaluation in WiMAX systems with mixed VoIP and data traffic","authors":"Keivan Bahmani, E. Ince","doi":"10.1109/SCVT.2013.6735996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCVT.2013.6735996","url":null,"abstract":"Recently developed mobile broadband wireless systems can provide high-quality multimedia services with required levels of QoS. Currently most 4th generation wireless communication systems employ the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) technology in the downlink (DL) part of their physical layer. In this paper we present a simulation-based performance analysis of the Priority-Aware Extended eOCSA (PA-EeOCSA) DL frame packing algorithm under mixed VoIP and uncorrelated data traffic. For VoIP traffic, the ON-SID model has been used and the packing efficiency of both the eOCSA and PA-EeOCSA algorithms have been compared. Simulation results point out that in terms of mean percentage of unallocated bursts and the number of slots allocated on average, the PA-EeOCSA algorithm performs more efficiently in comparison to eOCSA. Results also show that with data users fixed at 20, between 40-45 VoIP users can be admitted if the mean percentage of unallocated bursts is to be maintained below 3.0 %. Recall that, a low mean percentage of unallocated bursts is imperative in order to keep the overall packet loss rate below a tolerable limit.","PeriodicalId":219477,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 20th Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux (SCVT)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121568506","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":"Effects of imperfect CSIT on downlink MU-MIMO fair SLNR scheduling algorithm","authors":"Diptanil DebBarma, Qing Wang, S. Groot, A. Lo","doi":"10.1109/SCVT.2013.6736003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCVT.2013.6736003","url":null,"abstract":"Indoor downlink communication contributes to a large part of the data traffic generated in today's world. The demand for high rate wireless indoor coverage while providing complete support to the existing wireless technologies is a big challenge. The future proof centralized optical fiber indoor back haul for efficient indoor coverage is gaining a lot of attention recently. Physical layer techniques like multiuser MIMO (MU-MIMO) is becoming an inevitable approach in this regard. Quality of service serves as the most attractive feature that should be ensured among the mobile terminals (MTs). In this work we try to study the effects of imperfections in channel knowledge owing to estimation errors. We study the effects of it on our previously proposed throughput fair successive signal to leakage and noise ratio (SLNR) precoding algorithm [1] for such a fiber-wireless (Fi-Wi) MU-MIMO indoor. Our algorithm has been shown previously to achieve maximal fairness. In this paper we use MMSE alterations to significantly reduce the effect of estimation errors for our scheme. We provide a lower bound on the sum rate achievable with imperfect CSIT. In this paper we also compare different power allocation policies. Power allocation policies plays an important part in improving the performance of the system in terms of BER of the worst case user. We show that channel adaptive power allocation guarantees approximately 3dB SNR improvement over the equal power allocation policy for BER of 10-7.","PeriodicalId":219477,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 20th Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux (SCVT)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128567150","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}