{"title":"SAGE based semi-blind channel estimation technique for massive MIMO system","authors":"K. Mawatwal, D. Sen, R. Roy","doi":"10.1109/ANTS.2016.7947868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTS.2016.7947868","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we have addressed the problem of channel estimation in massive MIMO systems, because the large scale benefits of massive MIMO relies on the accuracy of channel state information (CSI) available with the system. We have proposed an iterative space-alternating generalized expectation maximization (SAGE) based semi-blind channel estimation technique. The proposed method iteratively updates the initial estimate (obtained by the pilot based maximum-likelihood estimation (MLE)) with the help of a SAGE algorithm on pilot and data symbols. The method improves the CSI accuracy without the addition of extra pilot symbols, and converges in almost two iterations which is shown through simulations. The performance of the proposed method is compared with the existing estimators in terms of computational complexity, mean-squared error (MSE), and bit error rate (BER). Simulation results show that the proposed semi-blind estimator achieves significant gain over the existing pilot based estimators. Further, Cramer-Rao lower bound (CRLB) is derived to validate the performance efficacy of the proposed estimator.","PeriodicalId":248902,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS)","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115598560","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 analysis of Wi-Fi Direct for vehicular ad-hoc networks","authors":"A. Balasundram, Tharaka Samarasinghe, D. Dias","doi":"10.1109/ANTS.2016.7947854","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTS.2016.7947854","url":null,"abstract":"Vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) play a vital role in enabling intelligent transport services (ITS). The state of art dedicated short range communication (DSRC), which is envisioned to facilitate the communication in VANETs, requires dedicated hardware. This hinders the penetration of ITS especially in developing countries. This paper studies the suitability of Wi-Fi Direct (WD), which is readily available on many smart phones, as an alternative communication technology for VANETs. Performance measures such as throughput, end-to-end delay, packet receiving/loss ratios for both WD and DSRC are presented through simulations, using network simulator NS3, and the traffic simulator Simulation of Urban Mobility (SUMO). Both single-hop and multi-hop communication is considered. The results show the potential of WD as an alternative communication technology for VANETs.","PeriodicalId":248902,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS)","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131668615","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 efficient approach for load balancing in vehicular ad-hoc networks","authors":"Shubham Agarwal, Avirup Das, Nabanita Das","doi":"10.1109/ANTS.2016.7947768","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTS.2016.7947768","url":null,"abstract":"With the rapid increase in vehicular traffic in urban areas, optimal use of available resources is necessary to minimize the cost while maintaining the safety, and the quality of service. For this purpose, Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) are emerging, connecting vehicles with static road side units (RSUs) serving as a backbone. For energy efficiency, vehicles may upload data to the nearest RSU by multi-hop routing via shortest paths. But it drains the energy of the nodes nearer to the RSU faster leading to frequent recharging of batteries. For cost-efficient design and longer battery life, both optimal placement of RSUs and uniform power dissipation of nodes are necessary in VANETs. In this paper, a novel approach of load balanced routing is proposed to improve the network stability and battery lifetime in individual nodes. Assuming variable energy levels of transmission in each vehicle, our analysis establishes some upper bounds on the separation of two consecutive RSUs for nearly load balanced routing. The problem has been defined for linear network with uniform distribution of vehicles over 1-D road. Simulation studies show that the proposed scheme enhances the network performance significantly in terms of energy usage, network load and average packet delay.","PeriodicalId":248902,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130834299","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 the robustness of AQM mechanisms against non-responsive traffic","authors":"Sachin D. Patil, M. Tahiliani","doi":"10.1109/ANTS.2016.7947857","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTS.2016.7947857","url":null,"abstract":"Active Queue Management (AQM) mechanisms have come a long way, with an initial goal to avoid congestion to the recent most focus on reducing queue delay. The benefits of using AQM mechanisms at routers are being thoroughly studied nowadays, mainly to avoid the problem of bufferblaat. Although a lot of work has focused on analyzing the behavior of AQM mechanisms, the nature of traffic used while deriving inferences is mainly responsive (TCP), with small numbers of unresponsive flows (UDP) used in the background. The usage of UDP in Internet has increased significantly in the recent past, owing to a great demand for time sensitive multimedia applications. Since UDP flows do not respond to congestion signals, controlling the queue length at routers by using AQM mechanisms becomes a non-trivial task. In this paper, we study the robustness of popular AQM mechanisms in the presence of a large number of unresponsive UDP flows using ns-2. Further, we provide guidelines to effectively tune the AQM knobs and enhance their robustness against non-responsive UDP flows.","PeriodicalId":248902,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS)","volume":"304 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131041720","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":"Towards cost-effective capacity provisioning for fault-tolerant green distributed data centers","authors":"Rakesh Tripathi, S. Vignesh, V. Tamarapalli","doi":"10.1109/ANTS.2016.7947778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTS.2016.7947778","url":null,"abstract":"Many critical e-commerce and financial services predominantly depend on geo-distributed data centers for scalability and availability. Recent market surveys show that failure of a data center is inevitable causing huge financial loss. Fault-tolerant distributed data centers are typically designed by provisioning spare capacity to mask failure at a site. At the same time, data center operators are trying to reduce their carbon footprint by using renewable energy power. Thus, a key challenge in spare capacity provisioning is to distribute the additional servers across the sites, minimizing the total cost of ownership (which includes the server acquisition cost and operating cost) while maximizing the usage of renewable energy. While the existing models minimize the number of servers, we demonstrate that brown electricity price and renewable energy availability should be considered for sustainable fault tolerant data center design. We use mixed integer linear programming formulation to minimize the total cost of ownership (TCO), while handling constraints such as delay bound, partial or complete failure, and intermittent supply of renewable energy. By solving the optimization problem, we demonstrate that the proposed model reduces the TCO by 48% compared to CDN model (minimize latency), and by 24% compared to minimum server model (minimizes server cost). Results also highlight the impact of latency, number of data centers, failure percentage, and demand variation on the TCO.","PeriodicalId":248902,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129722702","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":"MIL-STD-1553 based wireless visible light communication system","authors":"Sandip Das, Nilesh Chandrakar, Suvra Shekhar Das","doi":"10.1109/ANTS.2016.7947843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTS.2016.7947843","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we present a design of an MIL-STD-1553 based wireless visible light communication (VLC) system. The system is designed in Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) in order to provide maximum flexibility in implementation. The design of the system consists of three major components namely, VLC front end, FPGA physical layer and firmware design and MIL-STD-1553 MAC design. The designed VLC front end achieves up to 16 Mbps speed and distance of separation of 4.5m with low cost of the self LED and photodetector components. Furthermore, a design architecture of MIL-STD-1553 based wireless VLC system is proposed which is a promising candidate for wireless avionics communications. A modification of traditional wired bus MIL-STD-1553 signaling is proposed for use with wireless VLC system and subsequently implemented in FPGA-based hardware for real-time evaluation. The entire physical layer, firmware and MAC layer are implemented in FPGA-based Xilinx's Zynq System on Chip (SoC) hardware. The design of the system is shown to have very minimal resource requirements when implemented in hardware. The real-time over-the-air performance results are obtained using over-the-air transmission and reception of data traffic through the testbed using On-Off-Keying (OOK) with Line of Sight (LOS) and SISO configuration. Finally, a small scale demonstrable experimental test setup consisting of three nodes (one BC and two RTs) is presented in this paper which is an early prototype of an OnBoard Data Handling (OBDH) in the satellite.","PeriodicalId":248902,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127674144","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 overlay management strategy to improve peer stability in P2P live streaming systems","authors":"Shilpa Budhkar, V. Tamarapalli","doi":"10.1109/ANTS.2016.7947813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTS.2016.7947813","url":null,"abstract":"Peer-to-peer (P2P) live streaming systems rely on utilizing peers' free resources to alleviate the load on streaming servers. In these systems peers join and leave the overlay based on interest in the stream and streaming quality. Therefore, to ensure scalable streaming a large number of stable peers are required in the system. In this work we propose an overlay management strategy to improve peer stability. The stability of a peer depends on various metrics like startup delay, stream quality and number of stable peer links. Therefore, two steps are taken to improve the peer stability. First, the tracker creates virtual sources which helps in reducing startup delay and improving peer's initial streaming quality. Second, peer stability is predicted using some parameters which ensures that only stable peers are selected as partners. The partner selection procedure improves the streaming quality of peers and reduces playback interruptions. Using simulations we compare the performance of the proposal with an existing strategy. Results demonstrate that there is an improvement in the quality of service, which further improves peer stability.","PeriodicalId":248902,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS)","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128362245","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 frequency reconfigurable rectangular step slotted antenna for WLAN/ITU","authors":"T. Ali, Sameena Pathan, R. Biradar","doi":"10.1109/ANTS.2016.7947833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTS.2016.7947833","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we have proposed a novel rectangular microstrip slot antenna with frequency reconfigurable characteristics for wireless applications. With the aid of two switches the reconfigurable characteristic of antenna is achieved thus enabling it to work in multiple modes. By making these switches ON and OFF, the antenna's frequency of operation can be varied. The antenna has a single band at 2.4GHz (WLAN) with a −10dB return loss bandwidth ranging from 2.3GHz to 2.5GHz when both the switches are ON. Antenna has triple bands at 2.4GHz, 5.2GHz (WLAN) and 7.8GHz (ITU) with −10dB return loss bandwidths ranging from 2.3GHz–2.6GHz, 5.1GHz–5.3GHz and 7.7GHz–7.9GHz respectively when both the switches are OFF. Antenna has dual mode of operations when either of the switch is ON. The proposed antenna has VSWR < 2 and good gain for designed bands. Both the simulated and measured results are in close agreement.","PeriodicalId":248902,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS)","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128640998","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":"Downlink interference control through adaptive DRX in a carrier aggregation enabled LTE-Advanced heterogeneous networks","authors":"I. Baig, S. Chaudhuri, D. Das","doi":"10.1109/ANTS.2016.7947786","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTS.2016.7947786","url":null,"abstract":"An LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) Heterogeneous Network (HetNet) constitutes of a macro cell and small cells, where, the former acts as an overlay network and the latter as an underlay network. In HetNet, enabling Carrier Aggregation (CA) usually results in severe downlink interference at small cells from macro cell because of high powered transmissions from macro cell on over-lapping component carriers (co-channels). The intensity of downlink interference is much more profound in HetNet enabled with CA than compared with a single carrier HetNet and ultimately affects the Quality of Service (QoS) of users connected to small cells. Some frequency domain solutions like cross carrier scheduling, soft frequency reuse, and downlink power control have been proposed so far, but they do not provide complete orthogonal transmissions among macro and small cells, leading to adjacent channel interference. Also, a few time domain approaches like Almost Blank Subframe (ABS), dynamic ABS have been proposed in the literature. However, the resource utilization of cells decreases due to high number of ABS assignments in the dense deployment, which also results in low user throughput. In this paper, we propose a combined time domain and frequency domain novel idea for downlink interference control, which is via adaptive Discontinuous Reception (DRX) settings through Multi-Objective optimizations and an optimal carrier allocation scheme, respectively. The proposed idea mitigates the downlink co-channel interference by enabling intermittent data reception at the User Equipment (UE) through adaptive DRX settings, also it utilizes an effective carrier allocation scheme such that users are always allocated to carriers with least interference. The analytical model and simulation results reveal that the proposed idea achieves average gain of 3.5 times w.r.t cell throughput when compared with well-known downlink interference mitigation schemes.","PeriodicalId":248902,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS)","volume":"115 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124707706","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":"Cognitive radio adhoc vehicular network (CRAVENET): Architecture, applications, security requirements and challenges","authors":"Sachin Sharma, S. Mohan","doi":"10.1109/ANTS.2016.7947842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTS.2016.7947842","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes and discusses the topic of cognitive radio ad-hoc vehicular networks (CRAVENET) and their architecture along with applications, security requirements and challenges that arise in architecting such networks. With the ever grower demand for spectrum, there exists an urgent need to improve spectrum utilization in wireless networks. Cognitive radio technology, which serves as a means to improve spectrum utilization, is expected to become an important part of diverse fields including the field of vehicular ad-hoc networking. The CRAVENET paradigm introduces entirely new challenges and security threats. This paper proposes an architecture with reliable authentication scheme to enhance security in CRAVENET.","PeriodicalId":248902,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS)","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116567678","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}