{"title":"Efficient mm-Wave beamforming protocol for group environments","authors":"J. Haapola, S. Kato","doi":"10.1109/PIMRC.2011.6139658","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC.2011.6139658","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, group training protocols for beamforming of multiple devices are proposed in the context of the IEEE 802.15.3c standard using single carrier. The standard defined sector and beam-level training sequences function well if only the establishment of one or two communication links is required, but in the case of, e.g. interactive gaming or conference room environment it can lead to considerable inefficiency. The proposed group training protocols address the cases where two or more devices need to carry out beamforming in order to communicate with each other. Moreover, the group training method exploits the knowledge that the personal area network coordinator already has on the associated devices. The standard defined beamforming protocol and the group training proposals are evaluated using varying superframe lengths in both symmetric and asymmetric antenna systems. The results show that group training can reduce the time to achieve beam-level synchronization considerably even when only two devices need to connect while staying compliant with the standard.","PeriodicalId":262660,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127587602","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}
O. Holland, O. Cabral, F. Velez, Adnan Aijaz, P. Pangalos, H. Aghvami
{"title":"Opportunistic load and spectrum management for mobile communications energy efficiency","authors":"O. Holland, O. Cabral, F. Velez, Adnan Aijaz, P. Pangalos, H. Aghvami","doi":"10.1109/PIMRC.2011.6140046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC.2011.6140046","url":null,"abstract":"Dynamic load and spectrum usage management techniques can significantly improve the energy efficiency of mobile communications systems. This paper considers: (i) the opportunistic reallocation of traffic loads between bands to allow radio network equipment in the bands that the traffic is originated from to be powered down, and (ii) the opportunistic selection of more appropriate spectrum based on propagation characteristics to minimize necessary transmission power through improving propagation and/or reducing power leaking into co-channel cells in frequency reuse cases. This paper addresses the simulation of video, FTP and HTTP (web browsing) traffic sources for configurations representing LTE and HSDPA telecommunications networks, and shows that the opportunistic reallocation of users between bands to power down radio equipment achieves a significant saving of 50% or more in from-the-socket power. Furthermore, it shows that the opportunistic reallocation of users/links to minimize transmission power through using more appropriate propagation spectrum leads to a further modest reduction in from-the-socket power consumption.","PeriodicalId":262660,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126594803","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. Latif, F. Kaltenberger, Rizwan Ghaffar, R. Knopp, D. Nussbaum, H. Callewaert, G. Scot
{"title":"Performance of LTE in rural areas - Benefits of opportunistic multi-user MIMO","authors":"I. Latif, F. Kaltenberger, Rizwan Ghaffar, R. Knopp, D. Nussbaum, H. Callewaert, G. Scot","doi":"10.1109/PIMRC.2011.6139864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC.2011.6139864","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on the performance of LTE in rural areas which is based on a channel measurement campaign conducted with the Eurecom OpenAirInterface LTE testbed at 800MHz. This testbed is based on LTE release 8 PHY layer and implements transmission modes 1 (single antenna - SISO), 2 (transmit diversity), and 6 (single-user MIMO - closed loop rank-1 precoding) in real time. In addition to the throughput recorded from the real modem, the raw channel estimates were stored and used for extrapolating the performance to transmission mode 5 (multi-user MIMO). This extrapolation is done by means of a mutual-information based link-quality model that abstracts the performance of multi-user (MU) MIMO for an interference aware receiver proposed by Ghaffar et al and then the results are compared with the performance of abstraction to transmission mode 2 and 6. The superior performance of MU MIMO mode (with interference aware receiver) over other transmission modes is illustrated and it is shown that if the channel admits then MU MIMO is the preferred option.","PeriodicalId":262660,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133389546","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":"Throughput-based incentives for residential femtocells","authors":"Rocco Di Taranto, C. Rosenberg","doi":"10.1109/PIMRC.2011.6139690","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC.2011.6139690","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a) we investigate a simple throughput based incentive mechanism that could convince home users to install residential femtocells (by offering them a rate which is α > 1 times higher than the average rate received by a user associated with the macro base station), avoid most of the curse of free riders (i.e., selfish users who gets improved service just because others are investing in femto technology) and, at the end, be beneficial to both the users and the operator, and b) we propose a heuristic to compute the resource allocation supporting this incentive scheme. We show that it is cost-effective for a network operator to allocate a pool K of its licensed channels to a certain number of femto cells, even under our incentive mechanism. We first study a static scenario with fixed numbers of macro and femto users. We identify the range of values of the incentive parameter α that can be supported to reward femto users without harming macro users and we quantify the throughput gains for both macro and femto users in different situations. Then, we consider a dynamic scenario, where the number of users and the number of active femtocells change continuously, and we propose a simple and very accurate heuristic for computing K with a minimal amount of information to be collected at the macro base station. Our numerical results show that by using our proposed approach both macro and femto users are better off than in a pure macrocellular scenario.","PeriodicalId":262660,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133483469","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}
M. AlJerjawi, Yansheng Xu, R. Bosisio, C. Nerguizian
{"title":"OFDM-UWB MIMO transceiver implementation in realistic fading channels","authors":"M. AlJerjawi, Yansheng Xu, R. Bosisio, C. Nerguizian","doi":"10.1109/PIMRC.2011.6140094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC.2011.6140094","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes the implementation of an Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) Ultra-wideband (UWB) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transceiver employing a novel design of Wave-Radio Interferometer (WRI) circuit as a direct down-converter. In order to investigate the performance of the system in a realistic environment, the transceiver is simulated and tested in laboratory using an UWB fading channel defined by the IEEE802.15.3a standard set for high-rate wireless-personal area networks (WPANs). According to these standard specifications, a MATLAB code has been used to generate the channel model for simulations. The same code representing the channel impulse response has been imported to a radio channel emulator to imitate the wireless channel behavior for the laboratory measurements. For the proposed transceiver operating in the frequency range (3.1–4.1GHz), single-input multiple-output (SIMO) and MIMO configurations have been considered. A comparative study between standard channel models (CM) 1 and 4 is presented for each scenario. The results demonstrate a significant performance enhancement when an extra branch is used at the receiver of the SIMO, MIMO systems. This is due to the advantage of added diversity obtained in multiple-output systems.","PeriodicalId":262660,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133272721","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":"Self-organized network management functions for relay enhanced LTE-advanced systems","authors":"Konstantinos Samdanis, M. Brunner","doi":"10.1109/PIMRC.2011.6139925","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC.2011.6139925","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes relay specific self-organized functions to optimize the Donor eNB (DeNB) selection upon alternating load and mobility conditions or when specific donors are out of operation due to failure. Initially, we identify the main parameters that influence such donor selection process introducing the inter-DeNB handover and the re-configuration overhead as additional optimization targets, before analyzing the proposed iterative improvement algorithms. Besides centralized solutions, we also introduce a novel distributed one, which may react faster compensating failure, load and mobility fluctuations using only neighbor DeNB information. A simulation study demonstrates the benefits of our approach against conventional schemes considering load balancing, loss, mobility regulation and overhead, providing the basis for deployment recommendations.","PeriodicalId":262660,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134622160","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":"Power savings in mobile networks by dynamic base station sectorization","authors":"L. Hévizi, I. Gódor","doi":"10.1109/PIMRC.2011.6139954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC.2011.6139954","url":null,"abstract":"The authors conclude that instantaneous cell-load and buffer service-rate measurements can serve as input to various energy saving network algorithms. For example, such algorithms can control intelligent sleep modes in a mobile network, and can turn on and off radio resources according to the temporal and spatial variations of traffic. In particular, the authors demonstrate that underutilized 3-sector base stations can be reconfigured to omnicell base stations without significant service degradation in a network and that can save the power of two out of three radio units on typical 3-sector base stations.","PeriodicalId":262660,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131296011","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}
C. Schindhelm, Florian Gschwandtner, Michael Banholzer
{"title":"Usability of apple iPhones for inertial navigation systems","authors":"C. Schindhelm, Florian Gschwandtner, Michael Banholzer","doi":"10.1109/PIMRC.2011.6139701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC.2011.6139701","url":null,"abstract":"In recent decades, many indoor positioning techniques have been researched and some approaches have even been developed into consumer products. Most of them have been deployed into companies which benefit from indoor asset tracking. However, for public buildings like libraries or transportation systems, no direct benefit exists by installing expensive systems. Inertial navigation systems offer a form of positioning which is almost completely independent from external infrastructures, inexpensive and privacy friendly. As prices for sensors continuously drop, mobile terminals, such as cell phones or tablet PCs, are being equipped with various additional components, like GPS, cameras and light sensors, and moreover gyroscopes, compasses and accelerometers integration is also becoming commonplace. These last three components enable inertial navigation systems to calculate the position of the device. In this paper, we selected two devices, the iPhone 3GS and the iPhone 4, to analyze their sensors for usability of an inertial navigation system. For each device a common strapdown algorithm was implemented and varying standard filters applied to clean the output data stream of the sensors. Finally, we present the results, which are diverse according to the devices.","PeriodicalId":262660,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications","volume":"311 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131668318","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":"Coordinated multipoint multiuser-MIMO transmissions over backhaul-constrained mobile access networks","authors":"Changsoon Choi, L. Scalia, T. Biermann, S. Mizuta","doi":"10.1109/PIMRC.2011.6139719","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC.2011.6139719","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate coordinated multipoint (CoMP) multiuser multiple-input-and-multiple-output (multiuser-MIMO) downlink transmissions over mobile access networks yielding different backhaul constraints. The larger number of base stations (BSs) participating in CoMP, the higher user throughput can be expected if there is no constraint in mobile backhaul networks. Limited capacity and latency in mobile backhaul networks impose constraints on the number of BSs that can actually participate in CoMP. We propose a CoMP system architecture with multiple clustering steps that that takes into account these backhaul constraints and enables to avoid selecting BSs which do not have enough backhaul network capability. The system-level simulation shows how much performance gain user can expect by improving backhaul network capability.","PeriodicalId":262660,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131673213","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":"Preemption, fairness, and security dynamics in heterogeneous DSA environments","authors":"Shabnam Sodagari, T. Clancy","doi":"10.1109/PIMRC.2011.6139678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC.2011.6139678","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we study how key dynamic spectrum access operating parameters impact radios' ability to fairly access wireless spectrum. Additionally we investigate intentional spectrum access policies that allow priority radios (e.g. public safety or defense) to preempt access to the spectrum by lower priority (e.g. commercial) radio networks.","PeriodicalId":262660,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133775008","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}