{"title":"On the Performance of Single Side-Band OFDM for Band-Limited Visible Light Communication","authors":"Hossein Kazemi, H. Haas","doi":"10.1109/ICCWorkshops49005.2020.9145204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCWorkshops49005.2020.9145204","url":null,"abstract":"The use of a multicarrier modulation scheme based on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is a very promising approach to enable high-speed transmissions for band-limited visible light communication (VLC) systems. The existing variants of optical OFDM have been designed mostly to establish a compromise between spectral and power efficiencies, with the premise that the signal is purely transmitted in the baseband, thereby it needs to be real-valued. A common way to synthesize a real waveform with the digital implementation of OFDM is to use Hermitian symmetry. An alternative, but not fully explored, solution without imposing Hermitian symmetry is to upconvert the complex baseband OFDM signal within the limited bandwidth of VLC systems using an appropriate carrier frequency. In this paper, the bandpass transmission of OFDM signals based on optical single side-band OFDM (SSB-OFDM) is considered. The detailed mechanism for the generation and detection of an SSB-OFDM signal with discrete-time processing is presented. To address the bandwidth constraint, spectrum shaping of the SSB-OFDM signal is discussed. Furthermore, performance analyses of spectral efficiency (SE) and bit error ratio (BER) are carried out and the results are verified using Monte-Carlo simulations. Novel insights are provided, highlighting the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) gain of SSB-OFDM over a baseline direct current-biased optical OFDM (DCO-OFDM) system.","PeriodicalId":254869,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops)","volume":"12389 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115605371","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}
K. Sengupta, Xuyang Lu, S. Venkatesh, Bingjun Tang
{"title":"Physically Secure Sub-THz Wireless Links","authors":"K. Sengupta, Xuyang Lu, S. Venkatesh, Bingjun Tang","doi":"10.1109/ICCWorkshops49005.2020.9145177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCWorkshops49005.2020.9145177","url":null,"abstract":"Ensuring security is emerging as one of the grand challenges towards realization of a large-scale and high-speed wireless network fabric for 5G and beyond. In particular, enabling security at the network layer and application layers becomes computationally very challenging in multi-Gbps sub-THz and THz wireless links operating under strict energy constraints and latency requirements. To address this, there has been renewed interest in physical layer security techniques that attempt to exploit the physics of propagation in the channel to incorporate security features. Phased arrays, that are expected to be the foundational building blocks behind such sub-THz links, attempt to address such physical layer security by creating directive links and minimizing leakage power to undesired directions. However, the spectrum and constellation transmitted by such arrays at these off-axis angles are fully preserved allowing eavesdroppers with sensitive enough receivers to compromise the communication channel. In this paper, we demonstrate incorporation of physical layer security in sub-THz wireless links through spatio-temporal array architectures. Unlike phased arrays, these architectures enforce spectral aliasing, loss of information and constellation scrambling at undesired directions to mitigate eavesdropper attacks. We present the fundamental operation principle of such architectures and discuss various modulation techniques and their intended security features. We also demonstrate them experimentally with fully integrated sub-THz arrays in custom designed silicon ICs and packaged antennas operating at 76 GHz. The presented architectures can enable future large-scale deployment of multi-Gbps wireless networks with physically secure links operating at sub-THz frequencies for future 5G and beyond.","PeriodicalId":254869,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123111603","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}
Kay Luis Wallaschek, Robin Klose, Lars Almon, M. Hollick
{"title":"NEAT-TCP: Generation of TCP Congestion Control through Neuroevolution of Augmenting Topologies","authors":"Kay Luis Wallaschek, Robin Klose, Lars Almon, M. Hollick","doi":"10.1109/ICCWorkshops49005.2020.9145446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCWorkshops49005.2020.9145446","url":null,"abstract":"We present NEAT-TCP, a novel technique to automatically generate congestion control algorithms in a data-driven fashion while optimizing towards a specified global system utility. NEAT-TCP employs an artificial neural network (ANN) in each node and generates a population of ANNs by means of an evolutionary algorithm called NEAT. The ANNs run independently from each other at the communication endpoints and take only features as inputs that are locally available at these nodes. We define the system utility as a combined maximization of overall throughput and throughput fairness between flows according to Jain's fairness index. The nodes are deployed in a grid topology in ns-3 simulations, which makes it particularly difficult to maximize the utility due to different interference levels for the data flows. In our experiments, NEAT-TCP achieves 69% more fairness, 66% less mean end-to-end delay and 71% less packet loss in relation to TCP New Reno at the cost of 19% less overall throughput, which meets our multi-criteria objective.","PeriodicalId":254869,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121069374","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":"RAMNe: Realtime Animal Monitoring over Network with Age of Information","authors":"Yu Nakayama, Yoshiaki Inoue, Marie Katsurai","doi":"10.1109/ICCWorkshops49005.2020.9145235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCWorkshops49005.2020.9145235","url":null,"abstract":"The ever-improving Internet of things (IoT) and computer vision technologies have enabled automated monitoring of animals, which is essential for understanding animal behavior and conservation of ecosystem. The tradeoff between survey cost and sampling variability is a significant issue in designing a camera survey considering the risk of losing informative images; the monitoring accuracy tends to decrease in accordance with data reduction. However, there has been no designing method for time-lapse realtime monitoring over networks to guarantee monitoring accuracy. To address this problem, this paper proposes a Realtime Animal Monitoring over Network (RAMNe). The goal of RAMNe is to efficiently detect target animals in realtime using network cameras. We propose a determination method for the monitoring interval to guarantee the target value of monitoring accuracy based on a formal theoretical analysis using the Age of Information (AoI). The proposed scheme can minimize the amount of transferred data to enable efficient and stable monitoring even in resource-limited environments. The performance of RAMNe was evaluated with ns-3 simulations to confirm the relationship between monitoring accuracy and interval.","PeriodicalId":254869,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126027387","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":"Simultaneous Lightwave Information and Power Transfer via Scattering and Line-of-Sight Links","authors":"Haotian Qiao, Chen Gong, Weijie Liu, Zhengyuan Xu","doi":"10.1109/ICCWorkshops49005.2020.9145408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCWorkshops49005.2020.9145408","url":null,"abstract":"Motivated by the fact that light can traverse through water or from air to water, we address simultaneous light information and power transfer (SLIPT), which can perform wireless charging while maintaining certain communication rate. We propose the architecture with line-of-sight (LOS) link for energy transmission and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) link for communication. We propose binary-level information modulation, and analyze the energy transfer performance and the detection bit error rate (BER). We further optimize the binary-level modulation and the load resistance at the receiver, to maximize the energy transfer under the detection BER constraint. The energy and information transmission is evaluated under a realistic application scenario.","PeriodicalId":254869,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126128526","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":"Joint Transmit Power and Trajectory Optimization for Two-Way Multi-Hop UAV Relaying Networks","authors":"Bing Li, Shengjie Zhao, Rongqing Zhang, Hao Zhang, Hanli Wang, Liuqing Yang","doi":"10.1109/ICCWorkshops49005.2020.9145414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCWorkshops49005.2020.9145414","url":null,"abstract":"Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has been regarded as a promising means to supplement ground communications. As flying relays, UAVs can be rapidly and flexibly deployed to assist data transmissions in many practical scenarios. In this paper, we investigate a two-way multi-hop UAV relaying network, where there are two ground users as sources and multiple UAVs as relays to help the two ground sources exchange information. We first provide an efficient two-way multi-hop UAV relaying pattern, which can achieve a data rate of 2/4 data packets per time slot with decode-and-forward (DF) protocol. Then, we further formulate a joint transmit power and trajectory optimization problem for the UAVs in this two-way multi-hop relaying scenario. The formulated problem is non-convex which makes it difficult to solve directly, hence we propose an iterative algorithm to obtain an approximate optimal solution. Numerical results demonstrate that our proposed network achieves significant throughput gains.","PeriodicalId":254869,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops)","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123443597","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}
Xinying Ma, Zhi Chen, Yaojia Chi, Wenjie Chen, Linsong Du, Zhuoxun Li
{"title":"Channel Estimation for Intelligent Reflecting Surface Enabled Terahertz MIMO Systems","authors":"Xinying Ma, Zhi Chen, Yaojia Chi, Wenjie Chen, Linsong Du, Zhuoxun Li","doi":"10.1109/ICCWorkshops49005.2020.9145343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCWorkshops49005.2020.9145343","url":null,"abstract":"With the development of sixth generation (6G) wireless systems, terahertz (THz) communication has been envisioned as an emerging technology pillar to provide large bandwidth and support diverse application scenarios. However, due to the severe path attenuation and poor diffraction of THz waves, THz communication links are easily interrupted by the obstacles when it is applied to indoor scenarios. To tackle this challenge, an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), which is able to control the propagation direction of THz waves by adjusting the discrete phase shifts of IRS elements, is considered as an available alternate to mitigate blockage vulnerability and enhance the coverage capability. To begin with, the hardware characteristics of graphene-enabled IRS is investigated and the IRS-assisted THz multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system model is developed. Then, a low complexity compressed sensing (CS) based channel estimation scheme, namely iterative atom pruning based subspace pursuit (IAP-SP), is proposed for channel state information (CSI) acquisition. Concretely, the IAP-SP scheme reduces the computational burden by eliminating the redundant columns of sensing matrix during the iterative process. Simulation results demonstrate that, in contrast with conventional subspace pursuit (C-SP) scheme, the developed IAP-SP maintains basically consistent channel recovery performance while realizes extra 99.51% complexity reduction.","PeriodicalId":254869,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125393857","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":"Indoor Communications with OAM Array","authors":"Rui Chen, Hanyu Du, Jiandong Li","doi":"10.1109/ICCWorkshops49005.2020.9145397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCWorkshops49005.2020.9145397","url":null,"abstract":"It is reported by an online research that Wi-Fi is chosen as the top thing people would not be able to live without. Therefore, it is necessary to continuously develop Wi-Fi technology. On one hand, further increase of Wi-Fi throughput in a legacy spectrum needs new approaches rather than just widening the band or increasing the number of spatial streams. On the other hand, a great research effort has been focused on vortex electromagnetic waves carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) as a new degree of freedom to enhance the throughput of wireless communication systems. In this paper, we investigate the feasibility and channel capacity performance of an OAM array-based MIMO system in an indoor multipath environment. Numerical results validate that OAM array-based MIMO is superior to conventional MIMO no matter with water-filling power allocation or equal power allocation at any SNR. This result provides a promising possibility to further improve the performance of Wi-Fi.","PeriodicalId":254869,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops)","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116467513","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 Two-Fold Group Lasso Based Lightweight Deep Neural Network for Automatic Modulation Classification","authors":"Xiaofeng Liu, Qing Wang, Haozhi Wang","doi":"10.1109/ICCWorkshops49005.2020.9145050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCWorkshops49005.2020.9145050","url":null,"abstract":"Automatic modulation classification (AMC) is a hot topic in modern wireless communication, which is a classification problem essentially. The deep learning methods have been applied to AMC gradually, for its excellent performance in classification, regression and decision-making tasks. However, the deep learning methods always come with complex network structure, vast training parameters and extra long training time, which seriously affected its application and promotion on power-limited and resource-constrained devices. In this paper, we propose a lightweight end-to-end AMC model named lightweight deep neural network (LDNN) via a novel group-level sparsity inducing norm, which can help network pruning itself automatically to obtain a highly compact network. In order to solve the problem of recognition confusing types, such as QAM16 and QAM 64 are always been confused in AMC task, a improved two-step training lightweight deep neural network (TLDNN) is well designed to improve the recognition accuracy. Experimental results shows the accuracy improvement of the proposed lightweight compact networks via two-fold group lasso regularization and two-step training schemes.","PeriodicalId":254869,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122294643","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}
Patel Nikunjkumar Sureshbhai, Pronaya Bhattacharya, S. Tanwar
{"title":"KaRuNa: A Blockchain-Based Sentiment Analysis Framework for Fraud Cryptocurrency Schemes","authors":"Patel Nikunjkumar Sureshbhai, Pronaya Bhattacharya, S. Tanwar","doi":"10.1109/ICCWorkshops49005.2020.9145151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCWorkshops49005.2020.9145151","url":null,"abstract":"The current open cryptocurrency markets pose varied challenges on a prospective investor (PI), such as pseudoanonymity of cryptocurrency transactions, selection criteria for investments in crowdfunding schemes (CF), modus-operandi for these schemes, non-transparency of money generation and distribution among peers, and untraceable scams. PIs are susceptible to monetary losses in the open market due to the aforementioned issues. The fraudsters could be both internal (operator of the scheme) and external (financial institutions (FI), such as banks, money-lenders, and insurance companies). The centrality of trust among stakeholders like PI, CF, and FI is a prime concern. Motivated from these facts, this paper proposes a decentralized framework, KaRuNa, A Blockchain-based Sentiment analysis framework for Fraud Cryptocurrency schemes. KaRuNa operates on public blockchain three phases of trust modeling among stakeholders. In the first phase, transactions are performed on the blockchain that offers trust, auditability, and transparency among stakeholders. In the second phase, sentiment analysis (SA) of cryptocurrencies is proposed based on a novel algorithm of hash addresses to generate classification scores (CS). Parameters like social trends, rise/fall in cryptocurrency price, measured standard deviation, peak and low are selected to fed to proposed novel Long-short term memory (LSTM) classifier to generate recommendations based on CS. An accuracy of 98.99% is achieved using LSTM over generated CS to evaluate risks in the investment. Results demonstrate that KaRuNa achieves more scalability compared to conventional approaches.","PeriodicalId":254869,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114157273","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}