{"title":"Optimal feedback-based adaptive WiMax MAC for improving quality of video","authors":"M. E. Villapol, M. Chatterjee","doi":"10.1109/LATINCOM.2010.5640989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LATINCOM.2010.5640989","url":null,"abstract":"WiMax based on IEEE 802.16 is an emerging wireless broadband communication technology for metropolitan area networking and is regarded as a strong competitor of cable access technologies. Among other functionalities, WiMax includes a rich set of MAC layer features that allows it to adapt to changing network and channel conditions. A well-known mechanism that has been incorporated in the physical layer of WiMax is the forward error correction (FEC). In this paper, we make use this feature to construct MAC protocol data units (MPDUs) in an adaptive manner based on the feedback about the channel conditions. We consider video as the application and use a well accepted mean opinion score (MOS) model for evaluating the video at the user end. We conduct simulation experiments to verify the performance of our adaptive MAC schemes. Simulation results reveal that the proposed adaptive scheme is able to adapt to the changing channel conditions, so the MOS for the video quality and network efficiency improve when the scheme is implemented no matter what the status of the channel is.","PeriodicalId":308819,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127311148","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":"Opportunistic Spectrum Access approach in heterogeneous wireless scenario","authors":"Daniel Ospina, Andrés F. Ocampo, R. Hincapié","doi":"10.1109/LATINCOM.2010.5640988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LATINCOM.2010.5640988","url":null,"abstract":"Opportunistic Spectrum Access has recently emerged as a set of approaches that seek to minimize the problems of scarcity and inefficient use of radio spectrum caused by its current policies of administration and allocation. This paper presents some modifications and adjustments made to the Opportunistic Spectrum Access model developed by Urgaonkar, R. and Neely, M. (2008). We evaluate the applicability of this model in realistic primary wireless network scenarios deployed in the present (particularly, GSM in coexistence with DVB-T). We also introduce two additional optimization objectives that define new criteria of resource allocation: Proportional Fairness, which considers the particular requirements of each secondary user and maximizes the total system occupancy, and Max-Min Fairness, which sets a fair policy to distribute the spectrum availability in order to maximize the minimum value of throughput guaranteed to all secondary users.","PeriodicalId":308819,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124800163","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":"Effective bandwidth based connection admission control for stored variable bit rate video streams","authors":"Thiago Stahlschmidt, W. Godoy, A. Foronda","doi":"10.1109/LATINCOM.2010.5641012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LATINCOM.2010.5641012","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a novel admission control architecture for video-on-demand servers, which provide deterministic guarantees on the maximum delay of video traffic and increase the network resource utilization. The framework take advantage of the fact that stored video streams can be processed off-line to calculate the space and time parameters in order to estimate its effective bandwidth under the many sources asymptotic regime. The automatic generation of video data representation (packetized and encapsulated in network protocols) in textual format allows a full characterization of the underlying process so as to precisely calculate its bandwidth requirements. To bypass the traffic prediction problem, since the off-line estimation does not capture the exact dynamics of the video stream in the time domain, the link is divided into several virtual links, where only streams with same content are multiplexed (group multiplexing approach). The admission control is aided by a Database Management System, where a stored procedure decides whether to accept or reject a connection by simple compare the sum of effective bandwidths for the traffic streams with the available resources. The efficiency of the model is analyzed and compared with the deterministic approach. It achieves accuracy and high channel utilization.","PeriodicalId":308819,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121158600","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}
F. Vismara, V. Grkovic, F. Musumeci, M. Tornatore, S. Bregni
{"title":"On the energy efficiency of IP-over-WDM networks","authors":"F. Vismara, V. Grkovic, F. Musumeci, M. Tornatore, S. Bregni","doi":"10.1109/LATINCOM.2010.5640979","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LATINCOM.2010.5640979","url":null,"abstract":"In the next 10 to 15 years the Internet will undergo a substantial increase especially with respect to the bandwidth required by end-users. Since the current Internet already consumes a not-negligible percentage of the total world electricity, reducing the energy consumption of telecom networks is expected to become an increasingly-important challenge, being unacceptable that the Internet energy consumption grows proportionally to the served bandwidth. In this paper we focus on backbone transport networks, that serve large aggregated amount of traffic. We compare three different network architectures which implement the Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM)-based transport of IP packets over optical fiber links (IP-over-WDM networks). The differences between these three architectures, which we identify as IP with no Bypass (IP-NB), IP with Bypass (IP-B) and IP with Bypass and Grooming (IP-BG), concern the capabilities of performing aggregation of traffic (grooming) and optical switching. IP-NB architecture performs grooming in every network node, where the traffic is electronically processed and forwarded by the IP routers. IP-B enables switching of wavelength channels directly in the optical domain, thus bypassing the processing of IP packets in the intermediate IP routers. This architecture does not provide grooming capabilities, but it just allows aggregation of different traffic demands to be established between the same source/destination pairs. IP-BG architecture represents an intermediate solution between the previous, since it provides both grooming capabilities (as for IP-NB) in order to efficiently exploit network capacity, and optical switching (as for IP-B) to reduce expensive electronic processing operations. We perform a comparative study between these three architectures showing the trade-off between the reduction of the power consumption or the cost of the networks, and we analyze how minimizing one of these two factors can influence the other.","PeriodicalId":308819,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124783138","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}
S. Perlaza, H. Tembine, S. Lasaulce, Victor Manuel Quintero Florez
{"title":"On the fictitious play and channel selection games","authors":"S. Perlaza, H. Tembine, S. Lasaulce, Victor Manuel Quintero Florez","doi":"10.1109/LATINCOM.2010.5641113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LATINCOM.2010.5641113","url":null,"abstract":"Considering the interaction through mutual interference of the different radio devices, the channel selection (CS) problem in decentralized parallel multiple access channels can be modeled by strategic-form games. Here, we show that the CS problem is a potential game (PG) and thus the fictitious play (FP) converges to a Nash equilibrium (NE) either in pure or mixed strategies. Using a 2-player 2-channel game, it is shown that convergence in mixed strategies might lead to cycles of action profiles which lead to individual spectral efficiencies (SE) which are worse than the SE at the worst NE in mixed and pure strategies. Finally, exploiting the fact that the CS problem is a PG and an aggregation game, we present a method to implement FP with local information and minimum feedback.","PeriodicalId":308819,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116510352","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}