Ramesh Babu Battula, M. Gaur, D. Gopalani, Meenakshi Tripathi
{"title":"Spectrum aware distance utilization routing protocol for cognitive radio networks","authors":"Ramesh Babu Battula, M. Gaur, D. Gopalani, Meenakshi Tripathi","doi":"10.1109/MICC.2015.7725404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MICC.2015.7725404","url":null,"abstract":"The increasing demand of wireless applications has led to the problem of spectrum scarcity. The new networking paradigm is widely known as Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA). DSA can be realized by use of cognitive radio (CR) technology. A CR provides an opportunistic utilization of an underutilized spectrum to the node with which it is equipped. Usually a nonlicensed user/node is equipped with a CR. Recent research has mainly been focused on Spectrum sensing, sharing, mobility and decision making which allows one to make use available free spectrum blocks opportunistically, but less emphasis have been laid on routing in multi-hope cognitive radio networks (CRNs). The feasibility of a multi-hope CRN depends entirely on routing scheme employed in it, as it ensures end-to-end delivery of data packets. Hence to make CRNs more efficient and prominent, an effective routing layer is required which is aware of the dynamics of CRNs. This work proposes a Spectrum Aware Distance Utilization Routing Protocol for (CRNs). The proposed protocol aims at providing optimal routing paths, which offers high spectrum availability with minimum path length between any pair of Source and Destination, hence enhancing routing in multi-hop CRNs. For optimal path formulation, it uses spectrum availability and link utilization factor. Through extensive simulations the efficiency of the proposed protocol found better than the existing ones.","PeriodicalId":225244,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 12th Malaysia International Conference on Communications (MICC)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123236248","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 spectral efficiency maximization in a partial joint processing system using a multi-start particle swarm optimization algorithm","authors":"A. Faisal, F. Hashim, M. Ismail, N. Noordin","doi":"10.1109/MICC.2015.7725449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MICC.2015.7725449","url":null,"abstract":"Downlink joint processing (JP) between base stations eliminates the inter-cell interference in a cellular system with a frequency reuse factor of one and improves the spectral efficiency of cell-edge users. JP has a huge impact on both feedback and backhaul load, and thus partial JP was presented to tackle with signaling demand. However, achieving equivalent backhaul reduction based on limited feedback channel state information is challenging when linear techniques, such as zero-forcing beamforming (BF) are used, which led to the use of stochastic algorithms instead. Therefore stochastic multi-start particle swarm optimization algorithm (MSPSOA) is proposed in this paper to achieve backhaul reduction and address the issue of lack of diversity, which is related to the basic particle swarm optimization algorithm (BPSOA). The lack of diversity has been solved in this work by replacing the inactive particles adaptively based on a predefined constant which represents the difference between local best and global best optimization criterion. The performance of the proposed MSPSOA and BPSOA BF is evaluated with respect to full and partial JP using different metrics such as sum-rate, actual interference and convergence using a multipath realistic environment WINNER II channel model. The proposed MSPSOA outperforms BPSOA in terms of average sum-rate by 15.3%, while the actual interference decreased by 14.6% in some conducted scenarios.","PeriodicalId":225244,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 12th Malaysia International Conference on Communications (MICC)","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132644256","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 new wideband double negative metamaterial","authors":"S. S. Islam, M. Islam, M. Faruque","doi":"10.1109/MICC.2015.7725455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MICC.2015.7725455","url":null,"abstract":"The design and absorption analysis of a new double negative metamaterial is being presented in this study. The proposed design shows resonance frequency within the X-band and Ku-band with double-negative characteristics at Ku-band in the microwave spectra. The measured result is presented that shows good conformity with the simulated result. The material displays more than 1 GHz wideband refractive index in the Ku-band. In addition, maximum 40% absorption can be achieved with the material as well.","PeriodicalId":225244,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 12th Malaysia International Conference on Communications (MICC)","volume":"353 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121528167","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}
I. Rafiqul, M. H. Habaebi, Islam Md Haidar, A. K. Lwas, A. Zyoud, Mandeep S. J. Singh
{"title":"Rain fade mitigation on earth-to-satellite microwave links using site diversity","authors":"I. Rafiqul, M. H. Habaebi, Islam Md Haidar, A. K. Lwas, A. Zyoud, Mandeep S. J. Singh","doi":"10.1109/MICC.2015.7725431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MICC.2015.7725431","url":null,"abstract":"Rain is the major challenge to design reliable earth to satellite microwave link at higher frequencies in tropical regions. Site diversity is one of the techniques used to mitigate this problem. Hodge and ITU-R Site Diversity Gain Models and ITU-R Diversity Improvement Factor Model are analyzed based on measurements at two locations in Malaysia. The measured rain intensity at IIUM and UKM campus for six months period with 1 minute integration time was used to predict attenuation with MEASAT3A as reference satellite. Two locations are separated by 37.36 Km distance. The measured site diversity gain and improvement factor are compared with predicted values. It is found that highly available satellite links can be achieved through site diversity.","PeriodicalId":225244,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 12th Malaysia International Conference on Communications (MICC)","volume":"145 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129064709","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 evaluation of RSS-based WSN indoor localization scheme using artificial neural network schemes","authors":"Aiman Ibrahim, S. Rahim, H. Mohamad","doi":"10.1109/MICC.2015.7725451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MICC.2015.7725451","url":null,"abstract":"A popular way of achieving WSN localization is through measurements and evaluation of Received Signal Strength (RSS) values of the signal transmitted by target mobile nodes. However, indoor localization presents a greater challenge due to occurrences of more severe propagation behaviors depending on the parameters of the environment. Artificial Neural Network (ANN) presents a method of adaptive processing of location specific non-linear indoor signal propagation. This paper evaluates the performance of three different methods of ANN family for indoor localization scheme. Data from the simulated propagation model are preprocessed into median, average, min and max values providing a strategic pattern to feed as inputs into the ANNs. The performance of location predicted with Elman Backpropagation (EB), Cascade-Forward Backpropagation (CFB) and Feedforward Backpropagation (FFB) show root mean square error (RMSE) of 0.4991m, 0.5257m and 0.6506m respectively with distance range of 100m.","PeriodicalId":225244,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 12th Malaysia International Conference on Communications (MICC)","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128614223","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":"Opportunistic relays selection for successive relaying with inter-relay interference","authors":"Qian Yu Liau, C. Leow","doi":"10.1109/MICC.2015.7725448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MICC.2015.7725448","url":null,"abstract":"In the presence of inter-relay interference, the capacity performance of successive relaying can be severely degraded. Existing literature on successive relaying does not consider the channel quality of the inter-relay channel in maximising the capacity performance. Therefore, we propose an opportunistic successive relaying scheme that jointly considers the channel conditions of source-to-relay channels, relay-to-destination channels and also the inter-relay channels. In the proposed scheme, we select a pair of relays out of N potential relays in a distributed fashion to optimise the instantaneous end-to-end capacity in the presence of inter-relay interference. The performance of the proposed opportunistic successive relaying scheme is simulated using Monte Carlo technique and the ergodic capacity is analysed. The simulation results justify that the proposed scheme is able to mitigate the adverse effect of inter-relay interference effectively. Based on the analytical result, we prove that the asymptotic ergodic capacity of the proposed scheme increases logarithmically with quadratic of the number of potential relays at high SNR.","PeriodicalId":225244,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 12th Malaysia International Conference on Communications (MICC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130002182","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":"Evaluation of contiguous and non-contiguous channel bonding schemes based on TVWS spectrum occupancy in Malaysia","authors":"R. A. Rahim, R. Nordin, M. Ismail, N. Abdullah","doi":"10.1109/MICC.2015.7725406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MICC.2015.7725406","url":null,"abstract":"Contiguous and Non-Contiguous Channel Bonding (CnNCCB) have been considered in TV White Space (TVWS) standard, (i.e. IEEE 802.11af) to combine more than one channel in TVWS band. To support more flexible channel bandwidth of TVWS, this paper investigates different types of CnNCCB, namely Dynamic Channel Bonding (DCB), Uniform Channel Bonding (UCB) and Standard Channel Bonding (SCB). Measurement has been conducted to investigate the availability of TVWS at eight different sub-urban/urban locations in Malaysia. We also examine and compare the measurement data with the random best fit normal data. The results show that four locations (ALS, KKB, KTR and SMR) did better CnNCCB than others, while Uniform Channel Bonding (UCB) achieved the highest number of channel bonding compared to SCB and DCB. The findings in this paper provide insight into the actual TV band spectrum occupancy and the best channel bonding criteria based on the TV channel occupancy in Malaysia.","PeriodicalId":225244,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 12th Malaysia International Conference on Communications (MICC)","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122747544","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":"Web-based monitoring of an automated fertigation system: An IoT application","authors":"Shah Abd Hafiz Zainal Abidin, S. Ibrahim","doi":"10.1109/MICC.2015.7725397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MICC.2015.7725397","url":null,"abstract":"Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging system that incorporates many technologies from different areas. In this paper, we present the implementation of IoT in an agriculture industry, particularly in monitoring an automated fertigation system. The monitoring system comprises a web-based system, an automatic fertigation system and a communication network. The main focus of this paper is on the web-based system where the data from the SQLite database is used in the web-GUI to display parameters such as the status of water level, the flow condition of valves and pipes as well as the overall operation of automated fertigation system. The paper also described on how farmers can access the website, set fertigation schedule and determine fertilizer's formulation. Different from others, this system is equipped with emergency mode to stop the fertigation system which can be controlled directly from the website. Our method uses a microprocessor to handle the databases, web-GUI and control communications between the fertigation system and the web-based system. This system will ease farmers in managing their automated fertigation system virtually using their mobile devices.","PeriodicalId":225244,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 12th Malaysia International Conference on Communications (MICC)","volume":"135 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130587273","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":"Phase unwrapping technique for dual-frequency Doppler ranging estimation","authors":"N. Hassan, S. Yusof, K. M. Yusof","doi":"10.1109/MICC.2015.7725452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MICC.2015.7725452","url":null,"abstract":"The usage of phase information from multiple frequency measurement has become a common practice in many different fields especially in ranging estimation techniques. The techniques can give higher accuracy and its can cover a long-range application compared to the conventional technique. However, in real situation this phase information is subjected to distortion, noise, and other vagaries that make the phase information do not carry the right information anymore. In this paper, the phase unwrapping techniques based on data association is introduced to reduce the noise effect on phase estimation. Three different phase unwrapping techniques are explored, which are Maximum Likelihood Estimation, Least Square Estimator and Chinese Remainder Theorem. The performance metric of those techniques is based on Root Mean Square Error (RMSE). The results showed, for countless data sample, a Maximum Likelihood Estimation technique is preferred. But if data sample is limited and insufficient Least Square Estimator techniques is more suitable to be used.","PeriodicalId":225244,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 12th Malaysia International Conference on Communications (MICC)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127342964","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}
L. Chek, S. Mekhilef, M. Krishnamurthi, E. Sulaiman
{"title":"Multiple output LC tank varactor VCO with ultra-low power consumption and low-phase noise","authors":"L. Chek, S. Mekhilef, M. Krishnamurthi, E. Sulaiman","doi":"10.1109/MICC.2015.7725453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MICC.2015.7725453","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the design of Varactor Tank Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO) with multiple outputs using Colpitts Oscillation. Design process followed industry guidelines in order to achieve ultra-low power consumption and low phase noise production. Each VCO proposed is a combination of main tank, Colpitts Oscillator, Varactor tank, negative resistance and utilized with super filter voltage, impedance matching, synthesizer and buffer for VCOs combination purpose. This design is verified by measurement of output frequency ranged 806 MHz to 1054 MHz with 3V to 10.5V supply respectively for each VCOs. Whereas power consumption varies in the range of 335.407 μ W to 486.1814 μ W., The proposed VCO design shows significant improvements compared with earlier VCO design in terms of wider output operating frequency range, lower power consumption and better phase noise results.","PeriodicalId":225244,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 12th Malaysia International Conference on Communications (MICC)","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121971541","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}