J. Baranda, José Núñez-Martínez, J. Mangues‐Bafalluy
{"title":"BP-MR: Backpressure Routing for the Heterogeneous Multi-radio Backhaul of Small Cells","authors":"J. Baranda, José Núñez-Martínez, J. Mangues‐Bafalluy","doi":"10.1109/WMNC.2015.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WMNC.2015.31","url":null,"abstract":"Dense small cell (SC) deployments are expected to help handling the explosive growth of mobile data usage. However, the backhaul of these deployments will face several challenges where point-to-point (PTP) and point-to-multipoint (PMP) wireless technologies will be combined forming multipoint-to-multipoint (MP2MP) wireless mesh backhauls. In this context, routing and load balancing solutions will be of key importance to maximize the use of wireless backhaul resources. This paper presents Backpressure for Multi-Radio (BP-MR), a distributed routing and load balancing protocol specifically designed for heterogeneous MP2MP wireless mesh backhauls. The backhaul is heterogeneous in the sense that each node may embed a different number of diverse wireless interfaces. BP-MR introduces a two-stage routing process to appropriately handle Head-of-Line blocking issues that appear in such multi-radio environments. We validate these improvements with ns-3 simulations under different network conditions. As a consequence of an improved wireless link usage efficiency, results show improvements in throughput of up to 34% and in latency of up to one order of magnitude with respect to state-of-the-art approaches.","PeriodicalId":240086,"journal":{"name":"2015 8th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129020653","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":"An Application-Layer Restful Sleepy Nodes Implementation for Internet of Things Systems","authors":"Matthias Thoma, Triantafyllos Afouras, T. Braun","doi":"10.1109/WMNC.2015.47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WMNC.2015.47","url":null,"abstract":"Two of the main issues in wireless industrial Internet of Things applications are interoperability and network lifetime. In this work we extend a semantic interoperability platform and introduce an application-layer sleepy nodes protocol that can leverage on information stored in semantic repositories. We propose an integration platform for managing the sleep states and an application layer protocol based upon the Constraint Application Layer protocol. We evaluate our system on windowing based task allocation strategies, aiming for lower overall energy consumption that results in higher network lifetime.","PeriodicalId":240086,"journal":{"name":"2015 8th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125304139","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":"Efficient Mobility and Multihoming Support for Mountain Rescue","authors":"Ibrahim S. Alsukayti, C. Edwards","doi":"10.1109/WMNC.2015.45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WMNC.2015.45","url":null,"abstract":"Introducing an IP-based communication system into the mountain rescue domain would enable carrying out search and rescue missions in an effective way. With efficient mobility and multihoming support, a Mountain Rescue Team would be able to establish more effective and reliable Internet communication. In this paper, we present the Multihomed Mobile Network Architecture (MMNA), a comprehensive multihomed mobility solution for complex nested mobility scenarios. It provides a multihoming management mechanism for gateway discovery and selection, on top of an efficient multihomed mobility model integrating different mobility and multihoming protocols. The design of the MMNA solution is first presented. We then describe how the MMNA was experimentally implemented and evaluated in a test bed setup to examine its effectiveness and feasibility considering a use case example of a mountain rescue scenario. The results highlight the practicality and advantages of deploying the MMNA into such a critical real-world scenario.","PeriodicalId":240086,"journal":{"name":"2015 8th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC)","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115219825","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":"Adaptive Interest Lifetimes for Information-Centric Wireless Multi-hop Communication","authors":"Carlos Anastasiades, Lukas von Rotz, T. Braun","doi":"10.1109/WMNC.2015.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WMNC.2015.38","url":null,"abstract":"Information-centric networking (ICN) is a promising approach for wireless communication because users can exploit the broadcast nature of the wireless medium to quickly find desired content at nearby nodes. However, wireless multi-hop communication is prone to collisions and it is crucial to quickly detect and react to them to optimize transmission times and avoid spurious retransmissions. Several adaptive retransmission timers have been used in related ICN literature but they have not been compared and evaluated in wireless multi-hop environments. In this work, we evaluate existing algorithms in wireless multi-hop communication. We find that existing algorithms are not optimized for wireless communication but slight modifications can result in considerably better performance without increasing the number of transmitted Interests.","PeriodicalId":240086,"journal":{"name":"2015 8th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC)","volume":"125 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127215734","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}
Foivos Michelinakis, Gunnar Kreitz, R. Petrocco, Boxun Zhang, J. Widmer
{"title":"Passive Mobile Bandwidth Classification Using Short Lived TCP Connections","authors":"Foivos Michelinakis, Gunnar Kreitz, R. Petrocco, Boxun Zhang, J. Widmer","doi":"10.1109/WMNC.2015.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WMNC.2015.34","url":null,"abstract":"Consumption of multimedia content is moving from a residential environment to mobile phones. Optimizing Quality of Experience - smooth, quick, and high quality playback - is more difficult in this setting, due to the highly dynamic nature of wireless links. A key requirement for achieving this goal is estimating the available bandwidth of mobile devices. Ideally, this should be done quickly and with low overhead. One challenge is that the majority of connections on mobiles are short-lived TCP connections, where a significant portion of data exchange is within the slow start phase. In this paper, we propose a novel method that passively estimates the currently available bandwidth by monitoring the minimal traffic generated by such connections. To the best of our knowledge, no other solution can operate with such constrained input. Our estimation method is able to achieve good precision despite artifacts introduced by the slow start behavior of TCP, mobile scheduler and phone hardware. We evaluate our solution against traces collected in 4 European countries. Furthermore, the small footprint of our algorithm allows its deployment on resource limited devices.","PeriodicalId":240086,"journal":{"name":"2015 8th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC)","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116585823","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. Aloman, A. Ispas, P. Ciotirnae, R. Sanchez-Iborra, M. Cano
{"title":"Performance Evaluation of Video Streaming Using MPEG DASH, RTSP, and RTMP in Mobile Networks","authors":"A. Aloman, A. Ispas, P. Ciotirnae, R. Sanchez-Iborra, M. Cano","doi":"10.1109/WMNC.2015.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WMNC.2015.12","url":null,"abstract":"Nearly three-fourths of the world's mobile data traffic will be video in the next 5 years. Video is one of the most demanding services in terms of network efficiency, reliability, and quality. In this work, we present a comparative performance evaluation of three different video streaming protocols, namely MPEG-DASH, RTSP, and RTMP for both on-demand and live video streaming over 4G and Wi-Fi (under different network conditions) in terms of Quality of user Experience (QoE). QoE measurements have been done (i) applying the recently standardized ITU-T Rec P-1201.1, which specifies the model algorithm for non-intrusive monitoring of video quality of IP-based video services based on packet header information for the lower resolution application area, and (ii) an extended non-standardized parametric model for comparative purposes. Results suggest that RTSP is more efficient than MPEG DASH for starting the video playback, but at the expense of decreasing QoE due to packet losses. We have also detected that PLR has a bigger influence over re-buffering events than end-to-end delay both in 4G/LTE and Wi-Fi, and that a slightly best quality is achieved by using QPSK at 20 MHz in 4G/LTE. QoE is noticeably higher with MPEG DASH than that attained by using RTSP, but slightly worse than that obtained with RTMP. Finally, our findings suggest that the use of parametric models for video QoE evaluation should be carefully review in terms of the weight that packet losses should have when streaming protocols based on reliable transport protocols (e.g., TCP) are used.","PeriodicalId":240086,"journal":{"name":"2015 8th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC)","volume":"26 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123454289","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}
Israel Leyva Mayorga, V. Pla, M. E. Rivero-Angeles
{"title":"A Hybrid Method for Obtaining the Distribution of Report Latency in Wireless Sensor Networks","authors":"Israel Leyva Mayorga, V. Pla, M. E. Rivero-Angeles","doi":"10.1109/WMNC.2015.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WMNC.2015.8","url":null,"abstract":"Efficient event reporting is of vital importance in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). This is especially true in critical-time applications, where ensuring an adequate report latency allows a proper reaction from the network to the occurring phenomena. Despite a QoS analysis based on mean report latency is clearly insufficient for critical-time applications, it is oftentimes presented as the main performance indicator. For instance, high percentiles or the whole distribution of the report latency are much better suited. Furthermore, several applications, such as target positioning, require the transmission of a certain number of event packets to accurately characterize occurring events. Building on this, we present a hybrid method for obtaining the report latency distribution of random access (RA) WSN protocols. Here, the distribution of detecting nodes is obtained by simulation and then we perform the mathematical analysis of QoS parameters. Since the proposed method comprises a general structure, it can be easily adapted for analyzing the QoS of a wide range of RA WSN protocols. We use this method for evaluating the report latency, along with the energy consumption of RA protocols in applications that require the transmission of, at least, k event messages. Results show that the combination of higher detection ranges with low congested wireless environments leads to a clear reduction in report latency and event overlooking probability. This leads to an overall performance increase.","PeriodicalId":240086,"journal":{"name":"2015 8th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC)","volume":"180 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122317235","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}
T. Kunz, Jean-Daniel Medjo Me Biomo, M. St-Hilaire
{"title":"NetAnalyzer: Analyzing Dynamic Network Topologies","authors":"T. Kunz, Jean-Daniel Medjo Me Biomo, M. St-Hilaire","doi":"10.1109/WMNC.2015.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WMNC.2015.14","url":null,"abstract":"An Unmanned Aerial Ad hoc Network (UAANET) is a special type of Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET). For these networks, researchers rely mostly on simulations to evaluate their proposed networking protocols. One major component of such simulation studies is the movement pattern of the UAVs. In this paper, we first show that mobility models affect the performance of UAANET/MANET routing protocols. To study the reasons behind these performance differences, we developed and present a new tool, called Net Analyzer, which calculates a range of static and dynamic metrics that capture the impact of mobility models on the network topology. Using the case study presented here, we show how the knowledge of some of these metrics can help differentiating different mobility models and to provide insights into the noticed performance differences.","PeriodicalId":240086,"journal":{"name":"2015 8th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC)","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122487527","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":"Cross-Layer Design and Performance Evaluation for IP-centric QoS Model in LTE-EPC Networks","authors":"William Diego, I. Hamchaoui, X. Lagrange","doi":"10.1109/WMNC.2015.43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WMNC.2015.43","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile operators are today facing the daunting challenge of providing cheap and valuable services to ever more demanding customers. As a matter of fact, mobile standards have not yet really addressed this expectation of open, cheap and flexible web oriented internet access. As an alternative, we introduced an IP-centric QoS model mainly inspired by IP policies commonly found in fixed networks. In the present paper we further describe a possible cross-layer design for this model. Some implementation challenges have been highlighted, together with possible solutions implying only minor modifications in evolved Node B, and none in terminals. Performances of this proposal compared to various implementations of the 3GPP QoS model have been evaluated using the ns-3 simulator in realistic scenarios. Some good properties of our IP-centric proposal compared to the standardized QoS model have been brought into evidence.","PeriodicalId":240086,"journal":{"name":"2015 8th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128428292","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 Assignments in Wireless Networks with Time-Varying Traffic Behaviors","authors":"H. Abu-Ghazaleh, A. Alfa","doi":"10.1109/WMNC.2015.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WMNC.2015.23","url":null,"abstract":"Many of the models used to analyze the performance of wireless networks assume stationary traffic behaviors where the average state-changing event times are constant. Various analysis of real traffic traces have shown that such behaviors in mobile wireless networks vary periodically during the day and night. Other systems also exhibit a similar behavior. A better analysis of the network's performance can be achieved by assuming the traffic behaviors to be non-stationary in such systems. In this paper, a multi-server queueing system is presented where the arrival and service probabilities in each time slot are time-dependent and periodic. The model can be applied for computing the optimal assignment of channels that adheres to certain performance level requirements.","PeriodicalId":240086,"journal":{"name":"2015 8th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131078795","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}