{"title":"HEVC decoder optimization in low power configurable architecture for wireless devices","authors":"Vasileios Magoulianitis, I. Katsavounidis","doi":"10.1109/WoWMoM.2015.7158216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM.2015.7158216","url":null,"abstract":"High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is the new video compression standard, reducing bitrates nearly at half compared to H.264, offering potentially significant power savings for wireless video transmission at the network interface. This reduction in bitrate is achieved by a series of computationally expensive algorithms, thus making imperative to optimize HEVC decoding in order to provide a low-power implementation that can be used in mobile devices. Extending the Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) of a configurable microprocessor with new instructions for a target application can reduce the total effort of the application, thus reducing operating frequency and eventually power. The flexibility and relatively low design effort of such microprocessors - compared to hardwired Application-Specific-Integrated-Circuit (ASIC) designs - reduces the time space for adoption of HEVC and makes them an efficient alternative for wireless devices. We propose an efficient quarter-pixel interpolation filter implementation for HEVC using new custom-made instructions and other techniques for optimization of motion compensation, implemented on a configurable microprocessor architecture. Simulation results show a four times acceleration on average of the interpolation filter module over the reference HEVC software and an overall doubling in decoder performance.","PeriodicalId":221796,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 16th International Symposium on A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128239018","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":"U-TV: User-centric scalable DTV broadcast over heterogeneous wireless networks","authors":"Chetna Singhal, S. De, H. Gupta","doi":"10.1109/WoWMoM.2015.7158171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM.2015.7158171","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an innovative multi-faceted architecture, named U-TV, that provides user-centric and adaptive digital television (DTV) broadcast for heterogeneous users over heterogeneous wireless networks. The service providers (SPs) are the DTV base station (DTV BS) and Wi-Fi access points (Wi-Fi APs). The Bertrand duopoly game theoretic approach determines the pricing policy of the SPs and also the proportion of subscribers each of these SPs serve. The proposed framework incorporates the user-end as well as system utility definitions based on the users' energy-saving and price trade-off. The joint-optimization solution facilitates scalable video encoding subject to the device display resolutions, and energy and price sensitivities. The proposed solution results in an increased user satisfaction by providing them with optimized video content over the price competent SPs. Additionally, the SPs are able to serve more customers with acceptable user experience, as compared to the conventional as well as adaptive DTV service networks.","PeriodicalId":221796,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 16th International Symposium on A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)","volume":"240 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133216984","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}
M. Prist, S. Longhi, A. Monteriù, F. Giuggioloni, A. Freddi
{"title":"An integrated simulation environment for Wireless Sensor Networks","authors":"M. Prist, S. Longhi, A. Monteriù, F. Giuggioloni, A. Freddi","doi":"10.1109/WoWMoM.2015.7158177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM.2015.7158177","url":null,"abstract":"Simulators for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are one of the most important tools for systems development. They enable to study and evaluate new theories and hypotheses for sensors data gathering, testing new applications and protocols. Nowadays, there are a large number of open source WSN simulators and they can be divided into different categories according to their features and main applications. Due to the ability to increase the real WSN prototyping, the Cross Levels Simulator, like Cooja, has become an important class of simulators. Although they are open source, flexible and extensible in all levels, the test interface, the external connection at a physical level and the direct interaction with the process control via the WSN is very poor. In this work we present the Cooja Advanced Sky Interface which is an extension of the Contiki's Cooja network simulator for the Sky mote. Due to the absence of the analog output control in the Contiki OS for the Sky mote, as additional contribution, the Contiki Sky DAC driver has been developed and tested in the Cooja Simulator with the Advanced Sky GUI and GISOO plugin to give the ability to implement control over the wireless sensor network.","PeriodicalId":221796,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 16th International Symposium on A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130582847","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":"The design of a generalised approach to the programming of systems of systems","authors":"G. Coulson, G. Blair, Yehia El-khatib, A. Mauthe","doi":"10.1109/WoWMoM.2015.7158188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM.2015.7158188","url":null,"abstract":"The world's computing infrastructure is increasingly differentiating into self-contained sub-systems (e.g. Internet of Things installations, clouds, VANETs, ...), which are post-hoc composed to generate value-added functionality (“systems of systems”). Today, however, such system-of-systems composition is typically carried out in an ad-hoc and infrastructure-dependent manner, with obvious associated disadvantages. In this paper, we propose a generalised system-of-systems-oriented programming approach that enables programmers to manage the composition of systems without a need for intimate knowledge of their internals, and also facilitates dynamic and spontaneous system composition, as systems discover each other opportunistically in their environment.","PeriodicalId":221796,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 16th International Symposium on A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)","volume":"324 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132837306","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}
Alexandros Palaios, Hauke Dose, Janne Riihijärvi, P. Mähönen
{"title":"An experimental study on the statistical properties of radio environment noise","authors":"Alexandros Palaios, Hauke Dose, Janne Riihijärvi, P. Mähönen","doi":"10.1109/WoWMoM.2015.7158200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM.2015.7158200","url":null,"abstract":"We study the statistical characteristics of radio environment noise, in particular focusing on spurious received power arising from adjacent channel interference, harmonics and wideband man-made interference. Unlike the majority of existing studies, our measurements enable a comprehensive study on frequencies ranging from 80MHz to 2.64 GHz instead of being focused on the properties of an application-specific narrow band. We also apply a comprehensive statistical methodology to study how closely the measured noise can be modeled using a traditional white Gaussian stochastic process. In particular, we do not only focus on the parametric modeling of the marginal power distribution, but seek deviations from the whiteness of the noise through detailed time domain characterization, and apply a rigorous hypothesis testing on deviations from normality. Our results show that while the measured noise is often close to being white and nearly Gaussian, these properties are not as universal as often assumed in the literature. In particular, impulsive noise causes deviations both from normality of the marginals, as well as from the whiteness of the spectrum at levels that depend on the environment.","PeriodicalId":221796,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 16th International Symposium on A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114270511","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":"Water flow Driven Sensor Networks for leakage and contamination monitoring","authors":"Amitangshu Pal, K. Kant","doi":"10.1145/3342513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3342513","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we introduce the concept of Water flow Driven Sensor Networks for leakage and contamination monitoring in urban water distribution systems. The unique aspect of our work is that the sensor network can be deployed in the underground water network with only access to connection points (through manholes) and driven only by water harvested energy so as to avoid access to AC power or need for frequent battery changes. The main problems addressed are (a) adaptation of the network to the available energy in order to maximize leak/contamination detection, and (b) minimal artificial water circulation or leakage to improve detectability during periods of almost zero natural water flow. The paper shows, through extensive simulations, that the proposed approach can drastically reduce the leakage/contamination reporting time (more than 3 hours to ~30 minutes), and the adaptation can reduce this circulation by ~33% and yet enhance the collected/transmitted data by 30%.","PeriodicalId":221796,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 16th International Symposium on A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127181209","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":"Offload (only) the right jobs: Robust offloading using the Markov decision processes","authors":"Esa Hyytiä, T. Spyropoulos, J. Ott","doi":"10.1109/WoWMoM.2015.7158127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM.2015.7158127","url":null,"abstract":"We consider a dynamic offloading problem arising in the context of mobile cloud computing (MCC). In MCC, three types of tasks can be identified: (i) those which can be processed only locally in a mobile device, (ii) those which are processed in the cloud, and (iii) those which can be processed either in the mobile or in the cloud. For type (iii) tasks, it is of interest to consider when they should be processed locally and when in the cloud. Furthermore, for both type (ii) and (iii) tasks, there is typically two ways to access the cloud: via a (costly) cellular connection or via intermittently available WLAN hotspots. The optimal strategy involves multi-dimensional considerations such as the availability of WLAN hotspots, energy consumption, communication costs and the expected delays. We approach this challenging problem in the framework of Markov decision processes and derive a near-optimal offloading policy.","PeriodicalId":221796,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 16th International Symposium on A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115837807","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":"Taxi-cab cloud architecture to offload data traffic from cellular networks","authors":"K. Ezirim, Shweta Jain","doi":"10.1109/WoWMoM.2015.7158213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM.2015.7158213","url":null,"abstract":"The next generation mobile networks (NGMN) are over-taxed by the increasing demand of on-the-go content access. Standards bodies and researchers are building solutions that offload the traffic demands from the NGMN infrastructure to small cells. We motivate a taxicab cloud as a mobile ISP that offloads traffic demands from NGMN to under-utilized licensed bands such as TV whitespaces. This cloud consists of mobile (taxicabs) and fixed cloudlets. Fixed cloudlets are placed around major transit hubs in New York City. Cloudlets communicate with each other using cognitive radio (CR) technology for opportunistic spectrum access in the licensed band. Mobile cloudlets feature a multi-radio design to allow various short-range connection options (Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, mmWave etc.) to user equipment (UE). Cloudlets maintain distributed caches of popular content while UEs use name based content retrieval to access content. We use this scenario as a backdrop to study the taxicab mobility pattern. This is a bottom-up approach to designing suitable network and link layer technologies as well as estimate the benefits i.e., volume of traffic offloaded from the NGMN.","PeriodicalId":221796,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 16th International Symposium on A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115805457","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}
A. S. Panah, R. V. Schyndel, T. Sellis, E. Bertino
{"title":"In the shadows we trust: A secure aggregation tolerant watermark for data streams","authors":"A. S. Panah, R. V. Schyndel, T. Sellis, E. Bertino","doi":"10.1109/WoWMoM.2015.7158149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM.2015.7158149","url":null,"abstract":"In many applications such as sensor networks, e-healthcare and environmental monitoring, data is continuously streamed and combined from multiple resources in order to make decisions based on the aggregated data streams. One major concern in these applications is assuring high trustworthiness of the aggregated data stream for correct decision-making. For example, an adversary may compromise a few data-sources and introduce false data into the aggregated data-stream and cause catastrophic consequences. In this work, we propose a novel method for verifying data integrity by embedding several signature codes within data streams known as digital watermarking. Therefore, the integrity of the data streams can be verified by decoding the embedded signatures even as the data go through multiple stages of aggregation process. Although the idea of secure data aggregation based on digital watermarking has been explored before, we aim to improve the efficiency of the scheme by examining several signature codes that could also decrease the watermark detection complexity. This is achieved by simultaneous embedding of several shifted watermark patterns into aggregated data stream, such that the contribution of each data-source is hidden in the relative shifts of the patterns. We, also, derive conditions to preserve the main statistical properties of data-streams prior to the embedding procedure. Therefore, we can guarantee that the embedding procedure does not compromise the usability of data streams for any operations that depends on these statistical characteristics. The simulation results show that the embedded watermarks can successfully be recovered with high confidence if proper hiding codes are chosen.","PeriodicalId":221796,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 16th International Symposium on A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)","volume":"436 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126116049","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":"Rational coordination of crowdsourced resources for geo-temporal request satisfaction","authors":"Christine Bassem, Azer Bestavros","doi":"10.1109/WOWMOM.2015.7158202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WOWMOM.2015.7158202","url":null,"abstract":"Existing mobile devices roaming around the mobility field should be considered as useful resources in geo-temporal request satisfaction. We refer to the capability of an application to access a physical device at particular geographical locations and times as Geo-Presence, and we presume that mobile agents participating in geo-presence-capable applications should be rational, competitive, and willing to deviate from their routes if given the right incentive. In this paper, we define the Hitchhiking problem, which is that of finding the optimal assignment of requests with specific spatio-temporal characteristics to competitive mobile agents subject to spatio-temporal constraints. We design a mechanism that takes into consideration the rationality of the agents for request satisfaction, with an objective to maximize the total profit of the system. We analytically prove the mechanism to be convergent with a profit comparable to that of a 1/2-approximation greedy algorithm, and evaluate its consideration of rationality experimentally.","PeriodicalId":221796,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 16th International Symposium on A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121731803","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}