{"title":"Cooperative Multiaccess for Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks: An Information-Centric Approach","authors":"K. Pentikousis, F. Fitzek, O. Mammela","doi":"10.1109/ICCW.2009.5208072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCW.2009.5208072","url":null,"abstract":"Multiaccess wireless networks have emerged as an active research field but, until now, previous work has mainly centered on integrating wireless LANs with cellular networks. With mobile WiMAX deployments increasing, many expect fierce competition between 3GPP and WiMAX Forum mobile broadband technologies. We take a different approach in this paper and study cooperative multiaccess in an urban scenario, where mobile WiMAX and 3G cellular are used in a complemen- tary manner to deliver mobile video services. We position our work with respect to a novel information-centric approach in networking and evaluate through simulation the benefits arising from better management of multiaccess device capabilities in WMAN multimedia content distribution. In particular for the scenario we examine, we find that tapping on unused resources from different WMANs allows for significant increase in service delivery rates. Our results show that there is a lot to be gained by following a cooperative, rather than an antagonistic approach. I. INTRODUCTION Mobile and wireless multiaccess is a topic that has received significant attention lately. The availability of multiaccess devices is growing fast and, soon, devices that bundle cellular and wireless LAN (WLAN) network interfaces will be com- monplace. Meanwhile, urban areas are likely to be blanketed by overlapping broadband wireless access networks. Cur- rently, proprietary and non-IEEE standardized wireless MANs (WMANs) are available in some countries, and 3G/UMTS is the dominant mobile broadband technology. Country-wide mobile WiMAX and LTE deployments are expected in the coming years. In short, we anticipate that in the near future multiaccess mobile nodes will be able to access overlapping mobile WMANs, 3GPP cellular networks, and WLANs.","PeriodicalId":271067,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops","volume":"87 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130888996","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}
Kai Kamphenkel, Susanne Laumann, Jens Bauer, Georg Carle
{"title":"Path Selection Techniques for SCTP Multihoming","authors":"Kai Kamphenkel, Susanne Laumann, Jens Bauer, Georg Carle","doi":"10.1109/ICCW.2009.5208089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCW.2009.5208089","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a new innovative concept for using machine learning techniques to optimize the overall data throughput over low bandwidth networks with several paths for a parallel transmission of data. The multihoming feature of the stream control transmission protocol is used to transfer user data parallel over several end-to-end paths. The work focuses on the selection of the actual best path, where the capacities of the present paths are not necessarily known in advance. The path selection is adapted in an autonomic and flexible way by a new network component, the so called intelligent network placed at the network layer. Using this adaptive mechanism it is possible to implement applications like long-distance medicine in mobile scenarios.","PeriodicalId":271067,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134296602","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}
Ricardo M. Silva, J. S. Silva, Álvaro Silva, Filipe Pinto, Milan Simek, F. Boavida
{"title":"Wireless Sensor Networks in Intensive Care Units","authors":"Ricardo M. Silva, J. S. Silva, Álvaro Silva, Filipe Pinto, Milan Simek, F. Boavida","doi":"10.1109/ICCW.2009.5208086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCW.2009.5208086","url":null,"abstract":"Knowledge of patients weight is essential for daily practice in intensive care units. Many medications, including anticoagulants, nutrition, antibiotics and vasopressors are dependent on weight and height for precise dosing. Patients weight is used to adjust the dose of many drugs, and the dosages of infusions of vasoactive drugs are expressed in micrograms per kilogram of body weight per minute so that cardiovascular function can be assessed and comparisons between patients can be made. This paper presents a new laboratorial prototype based on wireless sensor networks to measure weight of patients. The technology proposed presents several advantages like simplicity and robustness, resulting in an alternative approach that can be used massively replacing old and expensive solutions in intensive care units. The platform implemented monitors the weight of each bedfast patient, triggering an alarm every time an unusual situation occurs. It also provides a complete suite of tools to manage, access and control all situations related to each patient.","PeriodicalId":271067,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133635765","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":"Queueing Model with Gated Service and Adaptive Vacations","authors":"V. Vishnevsky, O. Semenova, A. Dudin, V. Klimenok","doi":"10.1109/ICCW.2009.5208096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCW.2009.5208096","url":null,"abstract":"A single-server queueing model with gated service and vacations is considered. The length of the vacation period depends on the number of successive vacation completion epochs at which the buffer of the system was empty. Distribution of the number of customers in the system at vacation completion epochs and at arbitrary time is computed as well as some important performance measures including the mean sojourn time.","PeriodicalId":271067,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops","volume":"245 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123880952","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":"Improving the Performance of TOA Over Wireless Systems to Track Mobile Targets","authors":"M. Ciurana, F. Barcelo-Arroyo, M. Llombart","doi":"10.1109/ICCW.2009.5207986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCW.2009.5207986","url":null,"abstract":"TOA-based tracking methods over wireless communication networks constitute a proper technology that can fulfill the requirements of critical pedestrian navigation applications in GPS-less environments. However, large positioning latencies and lack of scalability to a large number of users can limit applicability. This particularly occurs if WLAN is employed due to the traffic that is generated in sequential estimation of the pseudo-distances to the reference points. This paper proposes a strategy to noticeably reduce the latencies without degrading positioning accuracy. In addition, this work proposes a strategy that allows drastic improvement in scalability. The results of tests performed show that both easy-to-implement strategies allow achievement of the objectives.","PeriodicalId":271067,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125032081","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 Value of Coherent and Coordinated Multi-Cell Transmission","authors":"A. Tolli, Harri Pennanen, P. Komulainen","doi":"10.1109/ICCW.2009.5208029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCW.2009.5208029","url":null,"abstract":"Coordinated multi-cell processing facilitates multi- user precoding techniques across distributed base station (BS) antenna heads. This paper evaluates the performance of different coordinated multi-cell transmission methods with several channel allocation algorithms in different scenarios with varying inter- cell interference. A generalised method for joint design of linear transceivers with coordinated multi-cell processing subject to per-BS power constraints is provided for single antenna receivers. The method can accommodate a variety of scenarios from coherent multi-cell beamforming across a large virtual multiantenna broadcast channel to single-cell beamforming with inter-cell interference coordination and channel allocation. The system optimisation objectives are weighted SINR maximisation across all the transmitted data streams and weighted sum rate maximisation. The numerical examples demonstrate the value of the coherent multi-cell beamforming, which greatly outperforms the non-coherent cases especially at the cell edge. The coordinated single-cell transmission with interference avoidance and dynamic user allocation is also shown to perform relatively well with a partial spatial loading.","PeriodicalId":271067,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops","volume":"158 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124063235","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":"WBAN Implementation on Magnetic Induction Radio IC for Medical Remote Monitoring","authors":"W. Torfs, P. De Cleyn, C. Blondia","doi":"10.1109/ICCW.2009.5208091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCW.2009.5208091","url":null,"abstract":"The medical service environment is changing. There is a need for automatization of collecting medical data remotely from the patient. Telecare is the continuous remote monitoring of the health of the patient. The IM3 (interactive mobile medical monitoring) project focuses on developing and implementing such end-to-end service. We implemented the WBAN (wireless body area network) protocol on the magnetic induction radio IC (integrated circuit), which is designed by NXP Semiconductors. We show in this paper that we have a working setup, where nodes form autonomously the network and send ECG data to the sink.","PeriodicalId":271067,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124182303","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 for Partial Feedback Downlink MIMO with Unitary Codebook Beamforming for LTE","authors":"M. Nicolaou, A. Doufexi, S. Armour, Yong Sun","doi":"10.1109/ICCW.2009.5208022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCW.2009.5208022","url":null,"abstract":"Until recently, mobile communication tasks have been grouped into different layers in a hierarchical layer approach. In this conventional approach, layer-specific protocols are developed and optimised independently. As new wireless applications emerge, requiring high data rates and flexibility for supporting applications with significantly varying QoS requirements, it has become imperative that a higher level of communication between adjacent layers needs to be established. A unitary codebook based beamforming approach has been proposed for LTE that incorporates an improved cross-layer interface in order to improve service to users according to specified QoS criteria. This paper examines this beamforming approach under partial feedback conditions for different MIMO configurations. It is shown that non-obvious precoding matrix selection strategies and scheduling policies for the DLC, can achieve superior performance for LTE system, whilst meeting the QoS requirements of urgent users. I.INDRODUCTION","PeriodicalId":271067,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131900031","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}
Amrinder Arora, Mira Yun, T. Kim, Yu Zhou, Hyeong-Ah Choi
{"title":"Automated Ride Share Selection Using Vehicular Area Networks","authors":"Amrinder Arora, Mira Yun, T. Kim, Yu Zhou, Hyeong-Ah Choi","doi":"10.1109/ICCW.2009.5208071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCW.2009.5208071","url":null,"abstract":"This paper considers the possible application of ride share services in Vehicular Area Networks. We propose a system architecture and protocol for this specific application using the Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle to Road (V2R) communications. We present how the system would integrate with the current VANET infrastructure and the On-Board Unit, and present algorithms for selection of ride share options. We also present simulation scenarios and theoretical analysis of the likelihood of finding an acceptable ride share option using the proposed system, and analyze the expected network overhead caused by the system. Index Terms—vehicular networks, intelligent vehicles, ride share, carpool","PeriodicalId":271067,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops","volume":"128 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131367064","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. Aguado, E. Jacob, J. Matías, C. Conde, M. Berbineau
{"title":"Deploying CCTV As an Ethernet Service Over the Wimax Mobile Network in the Public Transport Scenario","authors":"M. Aguado, E. Jacob, J. Matías, C. Conde, M. Berbineau","doi":"10.1109/ICCW.2009.5208011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCW.2009.5208011","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses the issues related to CCTV applications as a public safety application on the move. Video surveillance cameras are currently becoming important tools for the public safety agencies. Enhanced CCTV surveillance systems can automatically spot suspicious behaviour and raise an alarm. The CCTV application is one of the key challenging services under the future Public Safety Communication Systems (PSC) and Technologies scope. Deploying this application in uplink stream in the transport public scenario represents great technical challenge and research effort. This article presents a simulation performance analysis on CCTV deployment as an Ethernet service over the WiMAX Mobile Network in a train scenario. The CCTV traffic is characterized; the Key Performance Indicators (KPI) according to WiMAX Profile 1.5 and the Public Safety requirements are also identified. The WiMAX network, and consequently the IEEE802.16 opportunity for attending this type of public safety applications, is highlighted. The current IEEE 802.16m specification covers the high mobility classes and scenarios supported by the IMT-Advanced. This IEEE802.16 new release will also be able to support public safety first responders, military and emergency with services such as callprioritization, pre-emption, and push-to-talk. Finally, the simulation analysis verifies that the CCTV KPI specified values are met at different mobile speeds. Public Safety Communication Systems, VideoSurveillance, CCTV, WiMAX networks, IEEE 802.16m, ASN, IPoETH,","PeriodicalId":271067,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131265688","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}