T. Javornik, A. Hrovat, A. Vilhar, Matevz Vucnik, I. Ozimek, Marko Pesko
{"title":"Radio environment map (REM): An approach for provision wireless communications in disaster areas","authors":"T. Javornik, A. Hrovat, A. Vilhar, Matevz Vucnik, I. Ozimek, Marko Pesko","doi":"10.1109/CCS.2014.6933796","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCS.2014.6933796","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we propose radio environment map (REM) as a mean for setting up and maintaining wireless communications in disaster areas providing services to public protection disaster relief (PPDR) forces and disaster victims. The wireless communication infrastructure is expected to be partially or fully damaged in the disaster area, resulting in an unknown radio environment. In our approach, the initial base station parameters are estimated by applying the knowledge of the radio environment prior to the disaster and by an initial spectrum sensing, while during the operation phase the base station parameters are updated based on the REM, which relies on distributed spectrum sensing. The REM implementation using the open source geographical information system GRASS and its add-on RaPlaT is described.","PeriodicalId":288065,"journal":{"name":"2014 1st International Workshop on Cognitive Cellular Systems (CCS)","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129980899","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":"Mobile terminals clustering for green radio applications","authors":"Hadi Noureddine, Honggang Zhang, J. Palicot","doi":"10.1109/CCS.2014.6933792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCS.2014.6933792","url":null,"abstract":"Improving the energy efficiency is a major challenge of the next-generation wireless networks. In this regard, several network level green applications have been proposed during the last few years. In this paper, we review some of these applications, and describe how the awareness about the presence of clusters of nearby communicating nodes can enhance them. The considered applications fall into the categories of cell shaping, heterogeneous networks, beamforming and relaying. We exploit the received signal strength (RSS) measurements for finding the clusters of nodes, and study the clustering performance via simulations for local indoor and cellular network scenarios.","PeriodicalId":288065,"journal":{"name":"2014 1st International Workshop on Cognitive Cellular Systems (CCS)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127288585","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}
T. Wirth, Bernd Holfeld, Dennis Wieruch, R. Halfmann, K. Friederichs
{"title":"System level performance of cellular networks utilizing ASA/LSA mechanisms","authors":"T. Wirth, Bernd Holfeld, Dennis Wieruch, R. Halfmann, K. Friederichs","doi":"10.1109/CCS.2014.6933804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCS.2014.6933804","url":null,"abstract":"Flexible and efficient spectrum usage in cellular communication systems is a key to meet the service demand of forthcoming 4G and 5G networks by 2020. Recent wide-band power measurements in an urban environment show that spectrum below 6 GHz is still under-utilized. Licensed shared access (LSA) is one technique which can be deployed to make use of these valuable resources. In this paper we highlight cell-planning aspects for the implementation of licensed shared access (LSA) in LTE cellular networks. Different cellular deployments are evaluated by means of system-level simulations. Numerical results show that transmit power, antenna type and orientation, as well as antenna downtilt should be carefully evaluated during the planning of spectrum sharing deployments using LSA in cellular wireless.","PeriodicalId":288065,"journal":{"name":"2014 1st International Workshop on Cognitive Cellular Systems (CCS)","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122685563","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":"Greenly offloading traffic in stochastic heterogeneous cellular networks","authors":"Xianfu Chen, Tao Chen, Celimuge Wu, M. Lasanen","doi":"10.1109/CCS.2014.6933789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCS.2014.6933789","url":null,"abstract":"This paper puts forwards an on-line reinforcement learning framework for the problem of traffic offloading in a stochastic Markovian heterogeneous cellular network (HCN), where the time-varying traffic demand of mobile terminals (MTs) can be offloaded from macrocells to small-cells. Our aim is to minimize the average energy consumption of the HCN while maintaining the Quality-of-Service (QoS) experienced by MTs. For each cell (i.e., a macrocell or a small-cell), the energy consumption is determined by its system load which is coupled with the system loads served in other cells due to the sharing over a common frequency band. We model the energy-aware traffic offloading in such HCNs as a constrained Markov decision process (C-MDP). The statistics of the C-MDP depends on a selected traffic offloading strategy and thus, the actions performed by a network controller have a long-term impact on the network state evolution. Based on the traffic demand observations and the traffic offloading operations, the controller gradually optimizes the strategy with no prior knowledge of the process statistics. Numerical experiments are conducted to show the effectiveness of the proposed learning framework in balancing the tradeoff between energy saving and QoS satisfaction.","PeriodicalId":288065,"journal":{"name":"2014 1st International Workshop on Cognitive Cellular Systems (CCS)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124268772","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. Gundlach, J. Hofmann, C. Markwart, E. Mohyeldin
{"title":"Recent advances on LSA in standardization, regulation, research and architecture design","authors":"M. Gundlach, J. Hofmann, C. Markwart, E. Mohyeldin","doi":"10.1109/CCS.2014.6933807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCS.2014.6933807","url":null,"abstract":"This article describes advances in regulation, standardization and research for Licensed Shared Access (LSA) in Europe and in USA. Different approaches for defining the spectrum sharing access system are taken by the European Standardization Institute (ETSI) focusing on a 2 tier access hierarchy and by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) authority in USA focusing on a 3 tier access hierarchy. As shown in regard to the architecture design, LSA identifies a viable candidate for both approaches in that it supports different spectrum sharing modes such as static, semi-static and dynamic sharing.","PeriodicalId":288065,"journal":{"name":"2014 1st International Workshop on Cognitive Cellular Systems (CCS)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128365060","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. Mueck, Ingolf Karls, R. Arefi, T. Haustein, W. Keusgen
{"title":"Licensed shared access for wave cellular broadband communications","authors":"M. Mueck, Ingolf Karls, R. Arefi, T. Haustein, W. Keusgen","doi":"10.1109/CCS.2014.6933805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCS.2014.6933805","url":null,"abstract":"Millimeter Wave (mmWave) communication, taking place in the frequency bands between 30 and 300 GHz, is widely considered to be a key-enabler of future Fifth Generation (5G) Cellular Communication Systems, which will be deployed starting by the year 2020 and will provide a capacity increase up to a factor of 10,000 compared to existing network infrastructures. Main drivers for this upcoming network vision include new spectrum resources and dense network infrastructures, both building on the additional resources provided by mmWave bands. While unused mmWave spectrum opportunities are still available in some regions, it is a fact that incumbents are already taking substantial portions of the spectrum in certain areas. In the framework of this paper, Licensed Shared Access (LSA) Spectrum Sharing technology is proposed to be used as a key enabler in such cases, i.e. for managing Quality of Service (QoS) guaranteed access for future 5G cellular systems, where incumbents are maintain priority access rights to mmWave spectrum.","PeriodicalId":288065,"journal":{"name":"2014 1st International Workshop on Cognitive Cellular Systems (CCS)","volume":"116 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120909005","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":"Network coding gain in device-to-device underlaying primary communications","authors":"Engy M. Maher, K. Hassan","doi":"10.1109/CCS.2014.6933801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCS.2014.6933801","url":null,"abstract":"Direct device-to-device (D2D) communication between cellular equipments is proposed to increase data-rate and extend conventional cellular coverage, by introducing underlaying communications with cellular network in cognitive fashion. For enhancing D2D coverage and reliability, we consider advanced relaying techniques. We study D2D communications over more than one hop using relay nodes, i.e., we study utilization of idle devices in connecting the D2D Tx and Rx playing the role of relays. This relaying technique can be implemented using network coding (NC) to provide extra redundancy in the network. With the help of Monte Carlo simulations, we investigate the network performance by comparing the sum rate of the D2D underlaying cellular network achieved with and without NC. It is shown that the physical network coding protocol outperforms the traditional routing scheme, while the digital network coding lies between the performance of both thus offering a good compromise. Finally we show that by considering the best case relay selection can significantly increase the system performance.","PeriodicalId":288065,"journal":{"name":"2014 1st International Workshop on Cognitive Cellular Systems (CCS)","volume":"349 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121698884","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":"SDN architecture for cognitive radio networks","authors":"Guolin Sun, Guisong Liu, Yi Wang","doi":"10.1109/CCS.2014.6933795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCS.2014.6933795","url":null,"abstract":"Driven by the requirements from traffic volume versatile services and spectrum scarcity, the concept of cloud network and cognitive radio could become new features in the next generation mobile and wireless access networks. For example, to deploy LTE femtocells and Wi-Fi networks in the TV white spaces provides a new way for traffic offloading and enables spectrum sharing as a cognitive radio network. In this paper, we propose and prototype a software defined network architecture with the OpenFlow protocols for heterogeneous network spectrum sharing in the TV white space. Then, we analyze the controller architecture for cognitive radio and the OpenFlow enabled infrastructure architecture. We implement a prototype of software defined cognitive radio network with this SDN controller and LTE/Wi-Fi network simulator. Some essential control functions of cognitive radio are implemented and new potential scenarios based cognitive radio networks are given.","PeriodicalId":288065,"journal":{"name":"2014 1st International Workshop on Cognitive Cellular Systems (CCS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129496688","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}
Wuchen Tang, M. Z. Shakir, K. Qaraqe, E. Serpedin, M. Imran, R. Tafazolli
{"title":"On the bits per joule optimization in cellular cognitive radio networks","authors":"Wuchen Tang, M. Z. Shakir, K. Qaraqe, E. Serpedin, M. Imran, R. Tafazolli","doi":"10.1109/CCS.2014.6933811","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCS.2014.6933811","url":null,"abstract":"Cognitive radio has emerged as a promising paradigm to improve the spectrum usage efficiency and to cope with the spectrum scarcity problem through dynamically detecting and re-allocating white spaces in licensed radio band to unlicensed users. However, cognitive radio may cause extra energy consumption because it relies on new and extra technologies and algorithms. The main objective of this work is to enhance the energy efficiency of proposed cellular cognitive radio network (CRN), which is defined as bits/Joule/Hz. In this paper, a typical frame structure of a secondary user (SU) is considered, which consists of sensing and data transmission slots. We analyze and derive the expression for energy efficiency for the proposed CRN as a function of sensing and data transmission duration. The optimal frame structure for maximum bits per joule is investigated under practical network traffic environments. he impact of optimal sensing time and frame length on the achievable energy efficiency, throughput and interference are investigated and verified by simulation results compared with relevant state of art. Our analytical results are in perfect agreement with the empirical results and provide useful insights on how to select sensing length and frame length subject to network environment and required network performance.","PeriodicalId":288065,"journal":{"name":"2014 1st International Workshop on Cognitive Cellular Systems (CCS)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131112094","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 green backhaul deployments for future 5G networks","authors":"J. Lun, D. Grace","doi":"10.1109/CCS.2014.6933790","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCS.2014.6933790","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces a cognitive green topology management scheme for future 5Gnetworks, which can be used to reduce energy consumption in low traffic scenarios. The scheme is based on a backhaul link selection algorithm which aims to concentrate distributed traffic on fewer backhaul links by exploiting backhaul link diversity from other cells. A reinforcement learning based resource assignment algorithm has been introduced to work in conjunction with the topology management scheme. It is shown that total energy consumption can be reduced by up to 35% with marginal Quality of Service compromises. In addition, the tradeoff between energy saving and control overhead is also explored in this paper.","PeriodicalId":288065,"journal":{"name":"2014 1st International Workshop on Cognitive Cellular Systems (CCS)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128241804","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}