{"title":"Flexible transport network expansion via open WDM interfaces","authors":"A. M. Fagertun, B. Skjoldstrup","doi":"10.1109/ICCNC.2013.6504114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCNC.2013.6504114","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a successful test-bed implementation of a multi-vendor transport network interconnection via open WDM interfaces. The concept of applying Alien Wave-lengths (AWs) for network expansion was successfully illustrated via deployment of multi-domain/multi-vendor end-to-end OTN services. We evaluate the impact of AW service establishment on both native and other alien services. Our experience confirms the technical feasibility of the concept in the context of transparent network-to-network interconnection at the optical layer. Furthermore, main operational challenges are discussed.","PeriodicalId":229123,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC)","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126256007","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":"Exact trigonometric superfast inverse covariance representations","authors":"R. Merched","doi":"10.1109/ICCNC.2013.6504134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCNC.2013.6504134","url":null,"abstract":"This paper shows that superfast inverse covariance representations are not limited to DFT based formulas, and can be obtained similarly for trigonometric transforms, such as discrete cosine and discrete sine matrices. Unlike commonly implied by some authors, the use of real transforms does not depend on any symmetry condition in the columns of the corresponding data matrix. This result follows the state-of-the-art of the displacement approach to matrices in connection to recurrence polynomial realizations, where the choice of Chebyshev bases leads to DCT/DST decompositions, directly applicable to block frequency-domain equalization using real data.","PeriodicalId":229123,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125680885","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}
Antonio Hernandez Coarasa, Prusayon Nintanavongsa, S. Sanyal, K. Chowdhury
{"title":"Impact of mobile transmitter sources on radio frequency wireless energy harvesting","authors":"Antonio Hernandez Coarasa, Prusayon Nintanavongsa, S. Sanyal, K. Chowdhury","doi":"10.1109/ICCNC.2013.6504149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCNC.2013.6504149","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless energy harvesting sensor networks constitute a new paradigm, where the motes deployed in the field are no longer constrained by the limited battery resource, but are able to re-charge themselves through directed electromagnetic energy transfer. The energy sources, whom we call actors, are mobile and move along pre-decided patterns while radiating an appropriate level of energy, sufficient enough to charge the sensors at an acceptable rate. This is the first work that investigates the impact of energy transfer, especially concerning the energy gain in the sensors, the energy spent by the actors, and the overall lifetime in the resulting mobile sensor-actor networks. We propose two event-specific mobility models, where the events occur at the centers of a Voronoi tessellation, and the actors move along either (i) the edges of the Voronoi cells, or (ii) directly from one event center to another. We undertake a comprehensive simulation based study using traces obtained from our experimental energy harvesting circuits powering Mica2 motes. Our results reveal several non-intuitive outcomes, and provide guidelines on which mobility model may be adopted based on the distribution of the events and actors.","PeriodicalId":229123,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123344392","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}
Yong‐Lae Park, Diana Young, Bor-rong Chen, R. Wood, R. Nagpal, E. Goldfield
{"title":"Networked bio-inspired modules for sensorimotor control of wearable cyber-physical devices","authors":"Yong‐Lae Park, Diana Young, Bor-rong Chen, R. Wood, R. Nagpal, E. Goldfield","doi":"10.1109/ICCNC.2013.6504060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCNC.2013.6504060","url":null,"abstract":"We present a functioning prototype of a soft, modular, active cyber-physical assistive device comprised of a sealed network of conductive liquid sensors and collectives of miniature pneumatically-driven actuators that serve as artificial muscles. The system is multi-functional, supports large deformation, and operates with its own on-board pneumatics and controllers. When multiple artificial muscles are collectively actuated (contracted), the overall displacement and force produced is scaled to the size, form, and capabilities of the wearer. Each muscle is equipped with a soft strain sensor that detects the muscle contraction. Four muscles with strain sensors are controlled by one micro-controller as one module. The current prototype has four modules with 16 muscles in total. With different combinations of contracted muscles, various shapes may be demonstrated.","PeriodicalId":229123,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131148941","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}
S. El-Khamy, M. El-Mahallawy, El-Nasser S. Youssef
{"title":"Improved wideband spectrum sensing techniques using wavelet-based edge detection for cognitive radio","authors":"S. El-Khamy, M. El-Mahallawy, El-Nasser S. Youssef","doi":"10.1109/ICCNC.2013.6504120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCNC.2013.6504120","url":null,"abstract":"Cognitive Radio networks demand a fast and accurate wideband spectrum sensing in order to operate successfully and achieve efficient spectrum utilization. The wavelet transform, being a multiresolution analysis tool, has been proposed to process the target spectrum to achieve both speed and accuracy. In this paper, we propose an improved algorithm, based on the characterization of spectrum singularities from their wavelet transform multiscale information for wideband spectrum sensing. The proposed algorithm performs better than the existing ones at medium-to-high noise power. In addition, modifications are introduced to the wavelet transform multiscale sum algorithm to improve its performance. We also show that the Gaussian wavelet is the best wavelet basis function for this spectrum sensing approach. Finally, new performance measures are introduced and evaluated to provide accurate assessment of wideband spectrum sensing techniques.","PeriodicalId":229123,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC)","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132641402","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":"LCS-MANET: A mobile storage architecture with location centric storage algorithm in manets","authors":"Shuai Zhao, Le Chang, Tong Zhao, W. Yan","doi":"10.1109/ICCNC.2013.6504222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCNC.2013.6504222","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile networks, typically, Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs), bring a new opportunity for sharing data on mobile devices. To provide available data storage and sharing service, we propose a mobile storage architecture in MANET called LCS-MANET, in which the key algorithm is Location Centric Storage (LCS) algorithm. In LCS-MANET, the nodes are classified into two types: storage nodes and common nodes. We implement location centric data storage algorithm on storage nodes and also design the data replication algorithm upon them. In the evaluation, when nodes move slowly, the query success rate can reach 80% in LCS, and even when moving at the speed of 15m/s, the query success rate of LCS achieves over 30%. Evaluation results show good performance in the scenario of mobile networks and data availability.","PeriodicalId":229123,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC)","volume":"78 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133391705","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":"Practical multipath load balancing with QoS","authors":"Bradley R. Smith, Lincoln Thurlow","doi":"10.1109/ICCNC.2013.6504216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCNC.2013.6504216","url":null,"abstract":"The Internet is based on a single-path communications model. This model imposes significant constraints on the ability of the Internet to satisfy the quality-of-service requirements of network applications, and results in significant inefficiencies in the use of network resources that are manifested as congestion. The result has been the need to over-provision Internet-based systems to meet the basic needs of modern communications. With the adoption of the Internet as the converged communication infrastructure for the 21st century, this is clearly not an acceptable long-term solution. One approach that has been identified to address these limitations is to enhance the Internet routing architecture to support multiple paths between a given source and destination. Significant research has been done into multi-path solutions for QoS and congestion, however a comprehensive solution for both QoS and congestion that is compatible with the Internet's datagram, hop-by-hop model of communication is still elusive. This paper reviews a solution presented in previous work, called Dominant Set Multipath Routing (DSMR), that addresses these requirements. The DSMR algorithm computes the best set of routes between each source and destination that provides the full range of performance available from the network. This set is used to route flows over paths that both meet the QoS requirements of the flow and minimize congestion in the network. Simulations are then presented which show the effectiveness of DSMR to provide 3 to 11 times the capacity of single-path routing while meeting QoS requirements and minimizing congestion.","PeriodicalId":229123,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC)","volume":"2017 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132834132","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":"Channel capacity and soft-decision decoding of LDPC codes for spin-torque transfer magnetic random access memory (STT-MRAM)","authors":"K. Cai, Zhiliang Qin, Bingjin Chen","doi":"10.12720/jcm.8.4.225-232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12720/jcm.8.4.225-232","url":null,"abstract":"Spin-torque transfer magnetic random access memory (STT-MRAM) has emerged as a promising non-volatile memory (NVM) technology, featuring compelling advantages in scalability, speed, endurance, and power consumption. In this paper, we focus on large-capacity stand-alone STT-MRAM, and investigate the channel capacity and the viability of applying low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes with soft-decision decoding to correct the memory cell errors and improve the storage density of STT-MRAM. We propose to use LDPC codes with short codeword lengths, with the reliability-based min-sum (RB-MS) algorithm for decoding. Furthermore, we propose to use the capacity-maximization criterion to design the quantizer and minimize the number of quantization bits. Simulation results demonstrate the potential of applying short-block-length LDPC codes with soft-decision decoding to improve the yield and push the scaling limitation of STT-MRAM.","PeriodicalId":229123,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC)","volume":"18 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116042972","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 optical wireless MIMO architecture and its application","authors":"Mingbo Niu, Julian Cheng, J. Holzman","doi":"10.1109/ICCNC.2013.6504240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCNC.2013.6504240","url":null,"abstract":"A novel coherent optical multiple-input multiple-output architecture is proposed for wireless communication links to mitigate atmospheric turbulence effects. Transmitter optical signals operate at distinct carrier frequencies to allow the received optical signals to be separately processed. The accumulated phase noise in each transmission branch can be independently compensated electronically. Based on the proposed architecture, several popular diversity combining techniques are considered for system performance evaluation. The presented results demonstrate substantial error performance improvement over a single-input single-output coherent optical wireless link.","PeriodicalId":229123,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC)","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114503284","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":"Coexistence analysis of adjacent long term evolution (LTE) systems","authors":"Muhannad Aulama, M. Olama","doi":"10.1109/ICCNC.2013.6504073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCNC.2013.6504073","url":null,"abstract":"As the licensing and deployment of Long term evolution (LTE) systems are ramping up, the study of coexistence of LTE systems is an essential topic in civil and military applications. In this paper, we present a coexistence study of adjacent LTE systems aiming at evaluating the effect of inter-system interference on system capacity and performance as a function of some of the most common mitigation techniques: frequency guard band, base station (BS) antenna coupling loss, and user equipment (UE) antenna spacing. A system model is constructed for two collocated macro LTE networks. The developed model takes into consideration the RF propagation environment, power control scheme, and adjacent channel interference. Coexistence study is performed for a different combination of time/frequency division duplex (TDD/FDD) systems under three different guard-bands of OMHz, 5MHZ, and 10MHz. Numerical results are presented to advice the minimum frequency guard band, BS coupling loss, and UE antenna isolation required for a healthy system operation.","PeriodicalId":229123,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC)","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131781778","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}