{"title":"Energy-efficient transmission of DWT image over OFDM fading channel","authors":"Ashwani Sharma, S. De, H. Gupta","doi":"10.1109/COMSNETS.2011.5716514","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMSNETS.2011.5716514","url":null,"abstract":"In many applications retransmission of lost packets are not permitted. In an OFDM system, due to channel fading, only a subset of carriers are usable for successful data transmission. If the channel state information is available at the transmitter, it is possible to take a proactive decision of mapping the descriptions optimally onto the good subcarriers and discard at the transmitter itself the remaining descriptions, which would have been otherwise dropped at the receiver due to unacceptably high channel errors. In this paper we present a energy saving approach to transmission of discrete wavelet transformation based compressed image frames over the OFDM channels. Based on one-bit channel state information at the transmitter, the descriptions in order of descending priority are assigned to the currently good channels. In order to reduce the system power consumption, the mapped descriptions onto the bad subchannels are dropped at the transmitter. Via analysis, supported by MATLAB simulations, we demonstrate the usefulness of our proposed scheme in terms of system energy saving without compromising the received quality in terms of peak signal-noise ratio.","PeriodicalId":302678,"journal":{"name":"2011 Third International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS 2011)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116986166","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":"Voice messaging for mobile delay-tolerant networks","authors":"M. Islam, Anssi Turkulainen, J. Ott","doi":"10.1109/COMSNETS.2011.5716412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMSNETS.2011.5716412","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile ad-hoc networks, especially when they are sparse, are not well suited for ad-hoc voice communication when using end-to-end real-time audio streams: as paths grow in length, stability and forwarding performance suffer, and sometimes paths may not exist at all. In this paper, we suggest using asynchronous voice messaging built upon delay-tolerant networking concepts with some degree of hop-by-hop reliability to enable communication even in sparse environments and ensure intelligible speech. We evaluate the resulting walkie-talkie-style service in different synthetic and mobility-trace-driven settings and report on our experience from interoperable implementations on various mobile device platforms.","PeriodicalId":302678,"journal":{"name":"2011 Third International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS 2011)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114736376","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":"Energy efficient resource allocation in mobile ad hoc computational grids","authors":"Sayed Chhattan Shah, Myong-Soon Park","doi":"10.1109/COMSNETS.2011.5716409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMSNETS.2011.5716409","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses the problem of energy efficient resource allocation to interdependent tasks in mobile ad hoc computational grids. The interdependent tasks may exchange large quantity of data and consume the energy proportional to amount of data exchanged among the tasks. If tasks wouldn't be allocated effectively, then there can be a significant increase in the energy consumption and communication cost. The increased energy consumption limit the life time of a node and may result in a power failure which not only affects the task executing on a node but also affects other tasks in various ways. In addition, the mobile nodes within a grid are battery driven and thus have a limited power that should be utilized effectively. In this paper, we propose a hybrid power-based resource allocation scheme to reduce the energy consumption and communication cost among the interdependent tasks. The basic idea is to exploit the dependency and task types and allocate interdependent tasks to nodes accessible at a minimum transmission power level. We also propose a power-based algorithm to find a group of closest nodes to allocate a set of interdependent tasks. Compared to the traditional algorithms, the complexity of proposed algorithm depends on the number of transmission power levels rather than the number of nodes within a grid.","PeriodicalId":302678,"journal":{"name":"2011 Third International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS 2011)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122606463","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}
R. Mahindra, Ravi Kokku, Honghai Zhang, S. Rangarajan
{"title":"MESA: Farsighted flow management for video delivery in broadband wireless networks","authors":"R. Mahindra, Ravi Kokku, Honghai Zhang, S. Rangarajan","doi":"10.1109/COMSNETS.2011.5716480","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMSNETS.2011.5716480","url":null,"abstract":"Video traffic over cellular and broadband wireless access networks has been rapidly increasing in the recent years. To ameliorate the effect of this increase at wireless bottleneck links, we design and implement the first farsighted flow management framework, called MESA. During periods of network overload, MESA attempts to maximize the long-term quality of experience for each user. MESA has three key differentiating features: (1) It enables joint soft admission control and scheduling across video flows, (2) it takes into account a long-term dissatisfaction metric in making admission control and scheduling decisions, which results in a uniform quality of experience to users, and (3) it builds on the resource virtualization paradigm to enable extensibility in response to future trends and innovations. We implement a prototype system of MESA and evaluate it in detail on a WiMAX network testbed using both static and mobile client scenarios.","PeriodicalId":302678,"journal":{"name":"2011 Third International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS 2011)","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122732711","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":"Processing interference at the physical layer to enhance information flow in wireless networks","authors":"B. Muthuramalingam, S. Bhashyam, A. Thangaraj","doi":"10.1109/COMSNETS.2011.5716493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMSNETS.2011.5716493","url":null,"abstract":"Interference in wireless networks results in interdependent communication links between the nodes. Therefore, cross-layer design is essential and makes optimization of wireless networks complicated. In this paper, we study the problem of maximizing the information flow for a multicast session over a wireless network. Different scheduling and coding strategies to handle the interference, including the commonly used interference avoidance strategy, are compared. Results in information theory on achievable rate regions for interference networks are incorporated in the flow optimization to achieve significant improvement. Numerical results illustrate that processing interference at the physical layer results in better information flow compared to interference avoidance.","PeriodicalId":302678,"journal":{"name":"2011 Third International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS 2011)","volume":"181 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124520710","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}
Amit Kumar, R. Patra, M. Manjunatha, J. Mukhopadhyay, A. Majumdar
{"title":"An electronic travel aid for navigation of visually impaired persons","authors":"Amit Kumar, R. Patra, M. Manjunatha, J. Mukhopadhyay, A. Majumdar","doi":"10.1109/COMSNETS.2011.5716517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMSNETS.2011.5716517","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an electronic travel aid for blind people to navigate safely and quickly, an obstacle detection system using ultrasonic sensors and USB camera based visual navigation has been considered. The proposed system detects the obstacles up to 300 cm via sonar and sends feedback (beep sound) to inform the person about its location. In addition to this, an USB webcam is connected with eBox 2300™ Embedded System for capturing the field of view of the user, which is used for finding the properties of the obstacle in particular, in the context of this work, locating a human being. Identification of human presence is based on face detection and cloth texture analysis. The major constraints for these algorithms to run on Embedded System are small image frame (160×120) having reduced faces, limited memory and very less processing time available to achieve real time image processing requirements. The algorithms are implemented in C++ using Visual Studio 5.0 IDE, which runs on Windows CE™ environment.","PeriodicalId":302678,"journal":{"name":"2011 Third International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS 2011)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129833636","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}
J. Issing, Stefan Reuschl, F. Dressler, Nikolaus Färber
{"title":"Flexible playout adaptation for low delay AAC RTP communication","authors":"J. Issing, Stefan Reuschl, F. Dressler, Nikolaus Färber","doi":"10.1109/COMSNETS.2011.5716414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMSNETS.2011.5716414","url":null,"abstract":"We present an integrated approach for flexible playout adaptation for high quality audio transmission over impaired network connections. The key concept of our framework is a continuous measurement of the transmission delay, the delay variation, and packet loss. Based on these measurements, the adaptive playout control employs audio time stretching using audio concealment and frame dropping techniques to keep the low delay requirements. In the literature, playout adaptation techniques have mainly been considered for voice over IP, using silence periods between talkspurts, or for high quality audio transmission over dedicated network links. To the best of our knowledge, our playout algorithm is the first achieving low delay high quality audio streaming over impaired network connections for both music and speech. We used a significant number of network traces to estimate the variation of the network quality in DSL, WLAN, UMTS and GPRS links and to update the parameters of our playout adaptation technique. Experimental results clearly indicate that our system provides very high accuracy for the desired accepted late loss rate and achieves a fast playout adaptation, even for rapidly changing network conditions.","PeriodicalId":302678,"journal":{"name":"2011 Third International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS 2011)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117225217","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}
Ansuman Bhattacharya, Rabindranath Ghosh, K. Sinha, B. Sinha
{"title":"Multimedia communication in cognitive radio networks based on sample division multiplexing","authors":"Ansuman Bhattacharya, Rabindranath Ghosh, K. Sinha, B. Sinha","doi":"10.1109/COMSNETS.2011.5716435","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMSNETS.2011.5716435","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we address the problem of channel sensing, channel allocation and transmission of multimedia signals in a cognitive radio network, while maintaining the required quality of service (QoS) constraints. Depending on the type of signal and QoS requirements, different types of multimedia signals need different bandwidths for communication. In typical wireless systems, unless a contiguous frequency band in the spectrum with width at least equal to the required bandwidth is obtained, multimedia communication can not occur with the desired QoS. We propose here a novel technique based on sample division multiplexing (SDM) to overcome this issue. Our proposed approach is based on utilizing several frequency bands, each of smaller width than the required bandwidth but whose sum total equals at least the required bandwidth. Towards this end, we present algorithms for channel reservation, channel sensing and allocation along with protocols for transmission and reception. Our approach also ensures preemption of secondary users by the primary users as typically demanded in a cognitive radio based communication environment.","PeriodicalId":302678,"journal":{"name":"2011 Third International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS 2011)","volume":"157 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131896655","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":"Reaching approximate Wardrop equilibrium at reduced costs of link state updates","authors":"Y. Lee, Balaji Rengarajan, A. Reddy","doi":"10.1109/COMSNETS.2011.5716481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMSNETS.2011.5716481","url":null,"abstract":"Several routing protocols have been proposed to take advantage of the dynamic metrics on links such as link delays, queueing lengths, and available link bandwidths.Wardrop routing, QOS routing are few such example routing protocols. Even when these protocols can be shown to offer convergence properties without oscillations, the protocols have not been widely adopted for a number of reasons. The expected cost of keeping the link metrics updated at various nodes in the network being one of them. In this paper, we study the problem of reducing the cost of propagating dynamic link metrics while keeping the quality of paths within a margin of error. We propose a simple technique of threshold-based metric propagation that is shown, through analysis and simulations, to offer bounded guarantees on path quality while significantly reducing the cost of propagating the dynamic link metric information. Our results indicate that threshold based updates can reduce the number of link updates by up to 90–95% in some cases.","PeriodicalId":302678,"journal":{"name":"2011 Third International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS 2011)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132223424","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 integrity proofs in cloud storage","authors":"Ashutosh Saxena, Ashutosh Saxena","doi":"10.1109/COMSNETS.2011.5716422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMSNETS.2011.5716422","url":null,"abstract":"Cloud computing has been envisioned as the de-facto solution to the rising storage costs of IT Enterprises. With the high costs of data storage devices as well as the rapid rate at which data is being generated it proves costly for enterprises or individual users to frequently update their hardware. Apart from reduction in storage costs data outsourcing to the cloud also helps in reducing the maintenance. Cloud storage moves the user's data to large data centers, which are remotely located, on which user does not have any control. However, this unique feature of the cloud poses many new security challenges which need to be clearly understood and resolved. One of the important concerns that need to be addressed is to assure the customer of the integrity i.e. correctness of his data in the cloud. As the data is physically not accessible to the user the cloud should provide a way for the user to check if the integrity of his data is maintained or is compromised. In this paper we provide a scheme which gives a proof of data integrity in the cloud which the customer can employ to check the correctness of his data in the cloud. This proof can be agreed upon by both the cloud and the customer and can be incorporated in the Service level agreement (SLA). This scheme ensures that the storage at the client side is minimal which will be beneficial for thin clients.","PeriodicalId":302678,"journal":{"name":"2011 Third International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS 2011)","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134382754","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}