{"title":"Deep Learning For Noisy Communication System","authors":"Reem E. Mohamed, R. Hunjet, S. Elsayed, H. Abbass","doi":"10.1109/itnac53136.2021.9652171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/itnac53136.2021.9652171","url":null,"abstract":"In modern communication systems, channels vary with time due to the mobility of the transmitter (Tx) and the receiver (Rx). To achieve error-free communication in changing environments, Tx and Rx must effectively adapt to different noise levels. However, exiting frameworks face challenges during adaptation, leading to poor communication. In this paper, an independent pre-training collaborative learning framework is designed for tuning Tx and the Rx. The proposed framework incorporates more realistic challenges encountered in communication systems such as lack of feedback channels and the lack of updates at the Rx side. The experimental results show that the proposed approach can reduce noise up to 50% more than existing approaches and within a short training time.","PeriodicalId":282278,"journal":{"name":"2021 31st International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129596495","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 Study on RFID-based Arbitrary Point-to-Point Navigation and Path Recovery System for Mobile Robots","authors":"Osaki Nakamatsu, T. Wada","doi":"10.1109/itnac53136.2021.9652150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/itnac53136.2021.9652150","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, due to the declining birthrate, there are more and more situations where elderly people need to be cared for. As a result, the burden per caregiver has been increasing. As a technology to solve this problem, indoor robot navigation systems that support indoor mobility of those who need care are attracting attention. A navigation system using a mobile robot has components such as position estimation and movement control. As a conventional technique for location estimation, there is a location estimation method using QR codes. In addition, there is a conventional method of mobile control using RSSI. The proposed method presented in this paper is a robot navigation system that replaces QR codes with RFID tags and uses the RSSI-based mobile control method. In addition, we propose a path recovery system when the mobile robot deviates from the path during navigation. In the performance evaluation of navigation between arbitrary points, the maximum error from the ideal trajectory was found to be 13 cm. We also found that the average error between the destination tag and the stop position was 20 cm, while the maximum error was 51 cm. In the performance evaluation of the path recovery system, the maximum error between the ideal path and the stop position was found to be 30 cm.","PeriodicalId":282278,"journal":{"name":"2021 31st International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131935215","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":"Interference Management for Indoor multicell Visible Light Communication Networks","authors":"Liwei Yang, Xiangyuan Peng, Furong Zhu, Yuanhao Jiang, Xinlai Liu, Wenjie Zhang","doi":"10.1109/itnac53136.2021.9652128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/itnac53136.2021.9652128","url":null,"abstract":"Visible light communication (VLC) has emerged as a promising technology especially for short-range indoor applications. In indoor VLC systems, light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are used for data transmission, but indoor reflection will be produced at the same time. The multi-path effect will affect the signal quality and system performance. In this paper, a novel VLC system utilizing multiple input multiple output (MIMO) and orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) is investigated. The interference management processing of VLC system is discussed. The performances of the system are validated by simulations with zero forcing (ZF) and vertical bell laboratories layered space-time (V-BLAST) channel equalization algorithms.","PeriodicalId":282278,"journal":{"name":"2021 31st International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130865150","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}
Halima Ghribi, Fakhreddine Khelifa, A. Jemai, M. Salah
{"title":"A Review of DV-Hop localization algorithm","authors":"Halima Ghribi, Fakhreddine Khelifa, A. Jemai, M. Salah","doi":"10.1109/itnac53136.2021.9652143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/itnac53136.2021.9652143","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, the wireless sensor network has become a fundamental research area in smart farm and smart irrigation applications. In smart farming applications, the sensors can be scattered randomly via an aircraft, or an airplane,to detect and collect a set of climatic and environmental parameters. The data collected by the sensor nodes don't matter if their locations are unknown. Therefore, it is necessary to determine the location of sensor nodes for correctly interpreting the detected information of communication between nodes. In this case, the location of the sensor nodes is carried out by the use of a set of localization systems such as GPS, GSM, and UWB. These last ones produce a major drawback in terms of huge energy consumption, high cost, and low accuracy in some zone. To resolve these problems, extensive research is being carried out to integrate the range-based or range-free localization algorithm into nodes sensors to improve the localization accuracy. In this paper, we present the performance evaluation of some improved versions of the DV-HOP localization algorithm existing in the literature. Thus, we study the impact of variation in the number of anchor nodes, the number of unknown nodes, and the communication range on the minimum mean square error(MMSE) of these algorithms. In order to make a comparison between the DV HOP algorithm and these versions, we extract a more practical, innovative version.","PeriodicalId":282278,"journal":{"name":"2021 31st International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC)","volume":"188 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115427064","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":"Question Answering Model Based Conversational Chatbot using BERT Model and Google Dialogflow","authors":"Nikita Kanodia, Khandakar Ahmed, Yuan Miao","doi":"10.1109/itnac53136.2021.9652153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/itnac53136.2021.9652153","url":null,"abstract":"Contemporary conversational chatbots are user-friendly and possess the capabilities to simulate human conversations. However, they cannot evaluate large comprehensive datasets to provide an answer to the user. In contrast, the state-of-the-art Question Answering Model (QAM) trained on a large dataset can answer questions in the given context, and sometimes without context. This research designed a QAM to improve the customer's experience while using a chatbot for reading comprehension tasks using the BERT model and Google Dialogflow. QAM analyses and provides an accurate response using a comprehensive dataset and simulates human-like conversation. BERT model is used to predict accurate answers using the reading comprehension Conversational Question Answering (CoQA) dataset and Google Dialogflow to simulate human-like interactions. QAM extends the conventional way of using Google Dialogflow. A user-friendly Question Answering Model (QAM) reaps the benefits of Google Dialogflow and BERT Model integration. The BERT model and the chatbot interacts with each other using webhook and API. When a user interacts with the Dialogflow chatbot, it matches intents and sends the request to the BERT model. Finally, the BERT model provides an answer to the chatbot and respond to the end-user. The QAM provides accurate responses to end-users for questions based on large datasets.","PeriodicalId":282278,"journal":{"name":"2021 31st International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125185538","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":"Evaluation of an Actor Model-based Consensus Algorithm on Neo Blockchain","authors":"Widya Nita Suliyanti, Muhammad Salman, R. F. Sari","doi":"10.1109/itnac53136.2021.9652155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/itnac53136.2021.9652155","url":null,"abstract":"Neo Blockchain is a permissioned blockchain that adopts Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance variant consensus algorithm called delegated Byzantine Fault Tolerance (dBFT). This algorithm is implemented using an Actor Model-based consensus algorithm, namely Akka.NET framework.In this paper, dBFT consensus algorithm among four nodes is simulated -- one primary and three backup nodes, that communicates using Akka.NET framework on a private chain on Neo Blockchain. The framework is used to evaluate the inner workings of the algorithm.The simulation resulted in the Akka.NET framework supporting multi-phases of dBFT consensus algorithm and parallel execution of tasks. In addition, it offers the asynchronous feature. Thus, it reduces the number of locks used and reduces deadlocks to potentially improve blockchain performance and scalability.","PeriodicalId":282278,"journal":{"name":"2021 31st International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC)","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125976477","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":"Uplifting Healthcare Cyber Resilience with a Multi-access Edge Computing Zero-Trust Security Model","authors":"Belal Ali, M. Gregory, Shuo Li","doi":"10.1109/itnac53136.2021.9652141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/itnac53136.2021.9652141","url":null,"abstract":"Telemedicine over the Internet of Things has the potential to generate a massive amount of data. To process the data an increase in transmission, computing, storage and analysis capability is required. Utilising cloud computing to handle the increase in data could introduce high latency and increasing storage costs. Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) has become an essential component of the next generation 5G networks that provide improved reliability and low latency. This paper proposes a model that will enable MEC operators to collect information from the environment that can be analysed before making trust decisions. Trust is achieved by continuously applying authentication and authorisation while maintaining robust management practices to drive the trust decision process. The proposed model trusts the User Equipment (UE) only after verifying user credentials, which are converted into ciphertexts. The integration of different technologies such as computers, medical devices, and telecommunications will significantly improve the efficiency of patient treatment, reduce the cost of health care and improve privacy and security. Trust decisions are based on the trust posture criteria, existing and potential trust relationships, and the MEC environment trust state. The research outcomes show that this approach provides a positive improvement whilst establishing trust.","PeriodicalId":282278,"journal":{"name":"2021 31st International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC)","volume":"303 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121467262","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 Battery-Less RFID-Based Wireless Vibration and Physical-Shock Sensing System Using Edge Processing for Long-Term Measurements","authors":"Zequn Song, Ran Sun, Budi Rahmadya, S. Takeda","doi":"10.1109/itnac53136.2021.9652161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/itnac53136.2021.9652161","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an ultrahigh frequency (UHF) band radio frequency identification (RFID) tag and edge processing-based vibration frequency/physical shock sensing system. In this paper, shorter and longer radio wave irradiation times, which are called standby and active modes, respectively, are employed to achieve the energy-efficient operation of an RFID reader and an accurate sensing performance. The introduction of a standby mode is useful for lowering heat generation and CO2 emissions for the RFID reader during long-term measurements. This edge processing at the RFID reader also stores the data only in the active modes, reducing the amount of data uploaded to an Internet of Things (IoT) cloud. The proposed method was experimentally evaluated by monitoring the vibrations caused by a refrigerator.","PeriodicalId":282278,"journal":{"name":"2021 31st International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116771994","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}
Letian Li, Wenlong Wei, Weilong Ren, Kaiwei Wang, Shuo Wang
{"title":"Multi-service Virtual Network Embedding in Wireless Network","authors":"Letian Li, Wenlong Wei, Weilong Ren, Kaiwei Wang, Shuo Wang","doi":"10.1109/itnac53136.2021.9652137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/itnac53136.2021.9652137","url":null,"abstract":"Network virtualization is a key technology that enables the coexistence of multiple heterogeneous networks on the same substrate network, where virtual network embedding is one of the most crucial problems to be solved. Most of previous works about virtual network embedding did not take the QoS requirements of different service types into consideration. Therefore, in this paper, we focus on solving the embedding problem for the virtual network requests with different QoS requirements in wireless network. Besides the bandwidth, we introduce the delay and reliability attributes to describe the QoS requirements of different services. Due to the complexity of the problem, we propose a heuristic algorithm to solve it. In the algorithm, we design a new parameter called Mean Link Quality to show the mean quality of all outgoing links of a node and devise a hop-limit strategy to avoid selecting the paths with large hop count. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can achieve higher request acceptance ratio than other algorithms. Moreover, we analyze the effect of different parameter settings on the request acceptance ratio.","PeriodicalId":282278,"journal":{"name":"2021 31st International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131018453","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":"Data Acquisition from Cloud Network Storage","authors":"Raymond Lutui, B. Cusack","doi":"10.1109/itnac53136.2021.9652168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/itnac53136.2021.9652168","url":null,"abstract":"forensic actions are taken to determine causes of system failure and to diagnose network security breaches. The challenge and problem for network investigators is that many of the data repositories are now virtualized and Cloud distributed. The requirement is to devise effective and systematic methods for data acquisition that are robust in the new networking contexts and sufficiently comprehensive for fault determination. This paper reports the extraction of evidence from virtualized RAM in the Cloud context on a virtual machine. Such evidence informs network system fault correction, and attack diagnosis. The contribution of this research is to promote an awareness of valuable evidence held in Cloud virtual machines, where it is located, and the extraction tools. The new data collection scope for network investigators is thus demonstrated in the Cloud network context.","PeriodicalId":282278,"journal":{"name":"2021 31st International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128547933","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}