M. Uddin, S. Mukherjee, Hyunseok Chang, T. V. Lakshman
{"title":"BLESS: Bluetooth low energy service switching using SDN","authors":"M. Uddin, S. Mukherjee, Hyunseok Chang, T. V. Lakshman","doi":"10.1109/INFCOMW.2017.8116440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INFCOMW.2017.8116440","url":null,"abstract":"Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is a low-energy personal area wireless network technology that is of increasing importance for large-scale Internet of Things (IoT) deployment. By design, BLE is localized to small regions and to simple network topologies. Moreover, it is not designed for dynamic enforcement of policy and access controls. These limitations are impediments to BLE based IoT service deployment, where IoT devices for a service may need to be grouped into a network slice spanning a sizable geographic region and with strong per-slice policy enforcement. This paper presents an architecture for creating wide-area IoT service slices which utilize BLE devices at the edge. For this, we introduce an SDN-controlled “switch node”, called BLE service switch (BLESS) that is transparently inserted between two communicating BLE devices. It can be programmed at the service layer by a central controller and enables flexible, policy-based switching between the devices. We describe the design of BLESS, and illustrate its utility through a few practical use cases.","PeriodicalId":306731,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)","volume":"116 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122975548","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}
Tingjun Chen, Jin Zhou, Mahmood Baraani Dastjerdi, Jelena Diakonikolas, H. Krishnaswamy, G. Zussman
{"title":"Demo abstract: Full-duplex with a compact frequency domain equalization-based RF canceller","authors":"Tingjun Chen, Jin Zhou, Mahmood Baraani Dastjerdi, Jelena Diakonikolas, H. Krishnaswamy, G. Zussman","doi":"10.1109/INFCOMW.2017.8116516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INFCOMW.2017.8116516","url":null,"abstract":"This demonstration presents a practical real-time full-duplex wireless link consisting of two full-duplex transceivers. Our prototyped full-duplex transceiver contains a custom-designed RF self-interference canceller and a National Instruments (NI) Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP). The discrete-component-based RF self-interference canceller emulates a compact RFIC implementation, which uses programmable bandpass filters to achieve wideband cancellation through the technique of frequency domain equalization. We demonstrate self-interference suppression across the antenna, RF, and the digital domains through the NI LabVIEW interface.","PeriodicalId":306731,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122120875","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 multi-step model for migration and resource reallocation in virtualized network infrastructures","authors":"N. Khai, Andreas Baumgartner, T. Bauschert","doi":"10.1109/INFCOMW.2017.8116467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INFCOMW.2017.8116467","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we introduce a novel virtual network migration optimization model which involves multiple steps for the migration process. The model is based on a virtual network embedding (VNE) problem, i.e. the mapping of virtual networks onto a capacitated substrate network [3]. Due to parameter changes of the virtual networks (e.g. traffic demand changes) or the substrate network (e.g. network resource cost changes), embedding solutions might become sub-optimal over time. By enabling multi-step migration processes, our model takes advantage of so-called soft bottlenecks. Soft bottlenecks refer to capacity bottlenecks in the substrate network imposed by other virtual network demands which can be mitigated by releasing some of these existing demands when multiple migration steps are involved. Our model is separated into two phases. Phase I determines the optimum embedding solution, based on the current cost values, while Phase II targets the optimum migration process i.e. the transition towards the optimum embedding solution applying the concept of Time-Expanded Networks [4]. The evaluation of our model is performed using a realistic substrate network topology from SNDlib [12].","PeriodicalId":306731,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)","volume":"11 17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116822266","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}
A. P. Silva, Bernardo A. Abreu, E. B. Silva, Marcos Carvalho, Matheus Nunes, M. Marotta, A. Hammad, Carlos F. M. Silva, J. F. N. Pinheiro, C. Both, J. Márquez-Barja, L. Dasilva
{"title":"Impact of fog and cloud computing on an IoT service running over an optical/wireless network testbed","authors":"A. P. Silva, Bernardo A. Abreu, E. B. Silva, Marcos Carvalho, Matheus Nunes, M. Marotta, A. Hammad, Carlos F. M. Silva, J. F. N. Pinheiro, C. Both, J. Márquez-Barja, L. Dasilva","doi":"10.1109/INFCOMW.2017.8116434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INFCOMW.2017.8116434","url":null,"abstract":"With the advance of the Internet of Things (IoT), the interaction between humans and smart objects is already a reality. New applications that are expected to operate in dynamic environments must support different modes of human/machine interaction (e.g., voice and sign language), exhibit same or better performance in heterogeneous wireless and optical networks, and be able to react in real time. In particular, dispersed computing has arisen as an approach to deal with latency issues in this context. In the work described herein, we design a smart lighting IoT system that allows control of light bulbs (turn on/off, color and brightness change) through voice and sign language. This work addresses the idea of dispersed computing, which is implemented through fog computing, and combines it with virtualized resources to mitigate latency in the convergence point between wireless and optical networks. The proof-of-concept implementation of our design demonstrates the viability of the approach.","PeriodicalId":306731,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129574872","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":"Traffic offloading for 5G: L-LTE or Wi-Fi","authors":"Ibrahim Elgendi, K. Munasinghe, A. Jamalipour","doi":"10.1109/INFCOMW.2017.8116470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INFCOMW.2017.8116470","url":null,"abstract":"To cope with increasing mobile data traffic, researchers are currently working on traffic offloading techniques for delivering data over unlicensed cellular bands. Current offloading schemes based on offloading data to Wi-Fi regardless Wi-Fi has sufficient throughput or not. Though, we propose a novel offloading technique based on the Remaining Throughput Scheme (RTS) for Wi-Fi selection. In our proposed RTS technique, data is offloaded from the Unlicensed Long-Term Evolution (U-LTE) network such as Pico/Femto cells or Programmable Base Stations (PBSs) to Wi-Fi Access Points. Further, we propose Distance-based Transfer (DT) and Speed-based Transfer (ST) schemes to transfer users from PBS to Wi-Fi or Licensed LTE (L-LTE) Base Stations (BSs), where the transfer process relies on distance and speed of users, respectively. In this paper, the following three important issues relating to facilitating this transfer are addressed: which Wi-Fi Access Point (AP) should be selected to transfer users, which U-LTE users should be transferred to Wi-Fi, and which U-LTE users should be transferred to L-LTE. Network performance will increase by using RTS, DT and ST schemes as per the analytical evaluations presented.","PeriodicalId":306731,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129051022","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":"Optimization of ultra-narrowband wireless communication: An experimental case study","authors":"T. Šolc, Timotej Gale, C. Fortuna","doi":"10.1109/INFCOMW.2017.8116432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INFCOMW.2017.8116432","url":null,"abstract":"Low-Power Wide Area Networks (LP-WANs) are emerging as a promising solution for connecting Internet of Things and Machine Type Communication devices. If ultra-narrowband (UNB) networks, a subclass of LP-WANs, reach predicted deployment numbers and densities, they will face two challenges: inter-technology and intra-technology interference. This paper proposes the first experimental architecture designed for the optimization of UNB networks. We illustrate its implementation on a case study of a SIGFOX network and the resulting extension of the existing LOG-a-TEC testbed. The proposed architecture enables context data collection, context model development, optimization and transmission control using rapid experimentation cycle approach enabled by flow based programming using Node-RED. Through preliminary results, we show the feasibility of PHY and MAC context data collection, point out challenges that are specific for UNB context modeling and discuss options for optimization. All datasets, context modeling and optimization tools used in the paper will be released as open source.","PeriodicalId":306731,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123208228","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":"Model-based analytics for profiling workloads in virtual network functions","authors":"R. Bruschi, F. Davoli, P. Lago, Jane Frances Pajo","doi":"10.1109/INFCOMW.2017.8116498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INFCOMW.2017.8116498","url":null,"abstract":"With the flexibility and programmability levels offered by Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), it is expected to catalyze the upcoming “softwarization” of the network through software implementation of networking functionalities on virtual machines (VMs). While looking into the different issues thrown at NFV, numerous works have demonstrated how performance, power consumption and, consequently, the optimal resource configuration and VM allocation vary with the statistical features of the workload — specifically, the “burstiness” of the traffic. This paper proposes a model-based analytics approach for profiling (virtual) network function (VNF) workloads that captures traffic burstiness, considering — and adding value to — hardware/software performance monitor counters (PMCs) available in Linux host servers. Results show good estimation accuracies for the chosen PMCs, which can be useful to enhance current methods for finegrained provisioning, usage-based pricing and anomaly detection, and facilitate the way towards an agile network.","PeriodicalId":306731,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126360935","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}
Yurong Wang, Xiaochen Xia, Kui Xu, Youyun Xu, A. Liu
{"title":"Location-assisted precoding for three-dimension massive MIMO in air-to-ground transmission","authors":"Yurong Wang, Xiaochen Xia, Kui Xu, Youyun Xu, A. Liu","doi":"10.1109/INFCOMW.2017.8116399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INFCOMW.2017.8116399","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the low-complexity precoding for air-to-ground transmission, where an air platform (AP) is equipped with a two-dimension (2D) rectangular antenna array and communicates with a number of user equipments (UEs) on the ground. By exploiting the slow time-varying parameters and clustering UEs properly, we propose a location-assisted precoding scheme for downlink transmission. The scheme consists of two-layer precoding. The first-layer precoding is to decompose the original system into several small MIMO systems based on the location information of UEs, and is designed as a constant-envelope matrix. In this way, the number of required radio frequency (RF) chains at AP can be substantially reduced. The second-layer precoding matrix is designed to control the interference within small MIMO system. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme outperforms match filter precoding and DFT precoding in the air-to-ground transmission scenarios. Moreover, the results show that when the altitude of AP is high, increasing the number of RF chains at AP cannot improve the spectral efficiency of the system.","PeriodicalId":306731,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125637444","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}
Eyal Berliner, A. Herbon, Yuval Hadas, Boaz Ben-Moshe, A. Dvir
{"title":"Passive assessment of QoS in a WLAN for Sudden Onset Disasters (SODs)","authors":"Eyal Berliner, A. Herbon, Yuval Hadas, Boaz Ben-Moshe, A. Dvir","doi":"10.1109/INFCOMW.2017.8116464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INFCOMW.2017.8116464","url":null,"abstract":"Real-time voice and video streaming applications require a certain Quality of Service (QoS) level for providing user satisfaction. As Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN's) are not designed for such applications, assessing the communication's QoS level is a challenging task. Sudden Onset Disasters (SODs) poses even a greater challenge as the QoS level must be assessed without generating traffic or consuming any other network resources that the response forces needs for communicating among themselves. As such, passive measurement is the only viable approach, but it lacks suitable metrics for doing so. In this paper, we briefly review the main QoS parameters and later, we propose two new possible measurements. These measures are an extension of the retry-ratio measurements such as the Frame Retry Ratio (FRR) which reflects the effort-efficiency to communicate through the ratio of the extra effort (retries) to the overall effort. Data Retry-Ratio (DRR) is the ratio of extra data transmitted to the overall transmitted data in a period of time. Airtime Retry-Ratio (ARR) is the ratio of the extra airtime cost to the overall used airtime cost. For exploring the performances of these measures, we have developed and designed a special portable testbed which among other things includes a stratum-1 NTP time server. We used this testbed to explore the relations between active measurements: such as one-way delay, throughput and jitter to passive measurements: one-way throughput, one-way FRR, DDR and ARR. The results of a large field-test reveal that passive measurements can reflect the QoS parameters such as the average throughput and can indicate an asymmetric link similar to one-way delay.","PeriodicalId":306731,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134590961","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}
Takahiro Hirayama, T. Miyazawa, H. Furukawa, H. Harai
{"title":"Reconstruction of control plane of distributed SDN against large-scale disruption and restoration","authors":"Takahiro Hirayama, T. Miyazawa, H. Furukawa, H. Harai","doi":"10.1109/INFCOMW.2017.8116385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INFCOMW.2017.8116385","url":null,"abstract":"Software Defined Networking (SDN) technology enables us to configure switches in a network flexibly. Previously, distributed SDN control methods have been discussed to improve their scalability and robustness. Distributed placement of controllers reduces computation load of each controller and backing up each other enhances robustness. However, these techniques do not include an emergency measure against large-scale failures such as network separation induced by disasters. In this paper, we design emergency reconfiguration of distributed SDN especially in control plane (C-plane). In our reactive approach, each node detects disconnection to the main controller. Then, a controller deployed on one of the disconnected nodes becomes the substitute controller to which the others reconnect. Meanwhile, C-plane should be reconstructed when network connectivity recovers in case many controllers exist. The main and substitute controllers detect networks are reconnected, and merge their C-planes to avoid conflict. Simulation results reveal that our proposed method recovers C-plane logical connectivity with probability of about 90% when regional failure occurs in 100 node networks. Furthermore, we show that convergence time of our reconstruction mechanism is proportional to network size.","PeriodicalId":306731,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131579457","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}