{"title":"A Multi-Stage Packet-Switch Based on NoC Fabrics for Data Center Networks","authors":"Fadoua Hassen, L. Mhamdi","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOMW.2015.7414039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOMW.2015.7414039","url":null,"abstract":"Bandwidth-hungry applications such as Cloud computing, video sharing and social networking drive the creation of more powerful Data Centers (DCs) to manage the large amount of packetized traffic. Data center network (DCN) topologies rely on thousands of servers that exchange data via the switching backbone. Cluster switches and routers are employed to provide interconnectivity between elements of the same DC and inter DCs and must be able to handle the continuously variable loads. Hence, robust and scalable switching modules are needed. Conventional DCNs adopt multistage switches that are crossbar or/and memory based. However, current multistage packet switch architectures, with their space-memory variants, are either too complex to implement, have poor performance, or not cost effective. In this paper, we propose a novel and highly scalable multistage packet- switch design based on Network-on-Chip (NoC) fabrics for DCNs. In particular, we describe a novel three-stage packet-switch fabric with a Round-Robin packets dispatching scheme where each central stage module is based on a multihop Unidirectional NoC (UDN), instead of a classic singlehop crossbar fabric. The proposed design, referred to as Clos-UDN, overcomes all the shortcomings of conventional multistage architectures. In particular, as we shall demonstrate, the proposed Clos-UDN architecture: (i) Obviates the need for a complex and costly input modules, by means of few, yet simple, input FIFO queues. (ii) Avoids the need for a complex and synchronized scheduling process over a high number of input- output modules and/or port pairs. (iii) Provides speedup, load balancing and path- diversity thanks to a dynamic dispatching scheme as well as the NoC based fabric nature. Extensive simulation studies are conducted to compare the proposed Clos-UDN switch to traditional multistage switches. Simulation results show that the Clos-UDN outperforms previous designs under a wide range of input traffic scenarios, making it highly appealing for ultra-high capacity DC networks.","PeriodicalId":315934,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129435329","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}
Tamer Rakia, Hong-Chuan Yang, F. Gebali, Mohamed-Slim Alouini
{"title":"Outage Performance of Hybrid FSO/RF System with Low-Complexity Power Adaptation","authors":"Tamer Rakia, Hong-Chuan Yang, F. Gebali, Mohamed-Slim Alouini","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOMW.2015.7414199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOMW.2015.7414199","url":null,"abstract":"Hybrid free-space optical (FSO) / radio-frequency (RF) systems have emerged as a promising solution for high data- rate wireless communication systems. We consider truncated channel inversion based power adaptation strategy for coherent and non- coherent hybrid FSO/RF systems, employing an adaptive combining scheme. Specifically, we activate the RF link along with the FSO link when FSO link quality is unacceptable, and adaptively set RF transmission power to ensure constant combined signal-to-noise ratio at receiver terminal. Analytical expressions for the outage probability of the hybrid system with and without power adaptation are derived. Numerical examples show that, the hybrid FSO/RF systems with power adaptation achieve considerable outage performance improvement over conventional hybrid FSO/RF systems without power adaptation.","PeriodicalId":315934,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129446764","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":"An Ultra-Low-Latency Geo-Routing Scheme for Team-Based Unmanned Vehicular Applications","authors":"Ahmed Bader, Mohamed-Slim Alouini","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOMW.2015.7414087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOMW.2015.7414087","url":null,"abstract":"Results and lessons learned from the implementation of a novel ultra low-latency geo-routing scheme are presented in this paper. The geo-routing scheme is intended for team-based mobile systems whereby a cluster of unmanned autonomous vehicles are deployed to accomplish a critical mission under human supervision. The contention-free nature of the developed scheme lends itself to jointly achieve lower latency and higher throughput. Implementation challenges are presented and corresponding resolutions are discussed herewith.","PeriodicalId":315934,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114869432","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":"Elevation Plane Spatial Multicell Interference Mitigation with No CSI Sharing","authors":"N. Seifi, M. Coldrey, T. Svensson","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOMW.2015.7413973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOMW.2015.7413973","url":null,"abstract":"We study downlink transmission in a cellular network with multi-antenna base stations (BSs) and single-antenna users. We propose a novel coordinated transmission strategy that controls the intercell interference (ICI) via exploiting the elevation plane of the wireless channel. The key idea is to divide the area of each cell into two disjoint vertical regions and to serve the non-adjacent vertical regions in the neighboring cells according to a set of pre-determined coordinated transmission patterns. A scheduler is used to dynamically allocate the available time-slots among transmission patterns. By appropriately adapting the elevation angle of the antenna main beam, denoted as tilt, at the BSs in each pattern, ICI can be effectively suppressed. Unlike the state-of-the-art coordinated transmission schemes, the proposed technique requires no channel state information sharing among BSs and/or infeasible BS tilting capabilities, but achieves comparable performance.","PeriodicalId":315934,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"113 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124361403","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":"Prolonging Wireless Sensor Network Lifetime by Optimal Utilization of Compressive Sensing","authors":"Huseyin Ugur Yildiz, B. Tavlı","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOMW.2015.7414049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOMW.2015.7414049","url":null,"abstract":"In a typical Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) application, sensor nodes gather data from the environment and convey the collected data towards the base station. It is possible to perform certain signal processing operations on raw data on each sensor node before transmission so that the amount of transmitted data bits is reduced. The amount of transmitted data usually depends on how much processing is performed on each node. Less processing results in more data to be transmitted and vice versa. However, more complex computation operations dissipate more energy. Hence, utilization of signal processing operations should be evaluated carefully by considering both their computation costs and the amount of data reduction they achieve. It is also possible to employ different signal processing techniques at different nodes, hence, optimal assignment of signal processing algorithms can be assessed at the network-level (i.e., all nodes adopts a single signal processing technique during the entire lifetime) or at the node-level (i.e., allowing different nodes to implement different solutions during lifetime). In this study, we develop a novel Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) framework to quantitatively investigate the effects of utilizing traditional transform coding (TC) based and compressive sensing (CS) based signal processing techniques (network-level and node- level) on WSN lifetime. We explore the parameter space consisting of network size, node density, and signal sparsity level through the numerical evaluations of the proposed novel MIP model.","PeriodicalId":315934,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126294646","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}
B. Lorenzo, Felipe Gómez-Cuba, Juan García-Rois, F. González-Castaño, J. C. Burguillo
{"title":"A Microeconomic Approach to Data Trading in User Provided Networks","authors":"B. Lorenzo, Felipe Gómez-Cuba, Juan García-Rois, F. González-Castaño, J. C. Burguillo","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOMW.2015.7413997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOMW.2015.7413997","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we consider a novel cellular network connection paradigm, known as user-provided network (UPN), where users share their connectivity with others. Motivated by the recently launched traded data plans, where Wireless Service Providers allow users to sell and buy leftover data capacities (caps) from each other, we have developed a dynamic pricing scheme for such a network. Optimal prices for the volume of data traded are derived from market equilibrium. The proposed pricing scheme provides a global data market reference price, trading price for local data markets, considering user connectivity requirements, and price recovery. An analysis of UPN based on microeconomics is presented to provide insights into how traffic dynamics affect data volume demand and supply and thus, trading prices. The stability of the market equilibrium is also analyzed. Numerical results show that our scheme incentivizes user participation in UPNs by dynamically adapting the price to data volume demand and supply, and also provides high returns to both buyers and sellers.","PeriodicalId":315934,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122262154","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}
Zhongyuan Zhao, Shiwei Jia, Yong Li, M. Peng, Chonggang Wang
{"title":"Performance Analysis of Cluster Content Caching in Cloud-Radio Access Networks","authors":"Zhongyuan Zhao, Shiwei Jia, Yong Li, M. Peng, Chonggang Wang","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOMW.2015.7414084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOMW.2015.7414084","url":null,"abstract":"Caching is an energy-efficient method to improve service availability with low cost, and the combination of centralized processing and distributed caching in cloud radio access networks (C-RANs) can reduce redundant traffic. In this paper, a cluster content caching scheme in C-RANs is proposed, which can maintain a balance between the storage volume and the hit ratio of caching, and mitigates the backhaul loadings in C-RANs. By establishing a Poisson point process-based model, the notion of effective capacity is extended into C- RANs, which can capture the maximum content delivery capability of wireless channels with a specific QoS guarantee. Tractable expressions can be obtained in interference limited C-RANs, which show that the content caching scheme outperforms the centralized caching scheme, and provide insights on how to enlarge the the performance gains.","PeriodicalId":315934,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133493028","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}
Yukimasa Ohira, Shintaro Arai, T. Yendo, T. Yamazato, Hiraku Okada, T. Fujii, K. Kamakura
{"title":"Novel Demodulation Scheme Based on Blurred Images for Image-Sensor-Based Visible Light Communication","authors":"Yukimasa Ohira, Shintaro Arai, T. Yendo, T. Yamazato, Hiraku Okada, T. Fujii, K. Kamakura","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOMW.2015.7414144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOMW.2015.7414144","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a novel data detection scheme based on the occurrence of blurred output images in image- sensor-based visible light communication systems. This system's receiver suffers from an inability to detect correct LED luminance values and demodulation of data because the captured image blurs owing to defocusing. The proposed method assumes that the light emitted by all LEDs that is diffused by the blur can be approximated by applying a Gaussian filter and expresses all LED luminance values as convolution equations based on this diffusion of the LED light. We estimate each LED light's condition by simultaneously solving these convolution equations and recover data according to the estimated result. To confirm the accuracy of the proposed method, we conduct computer simulations and an implementation experiment to evaluate the bit error rate performance of the proposed method.","PeriodicalId":315934,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133415350","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":"wFlatnet: Introducing Wireless in Flatnet Data Center Network","authors":"Emna Baccour, S. Foufou, R. Hamila, M. Hamdi","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOMW.2015.7414102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOMW.2015.7414102","url":null,"abstract":"The basic challenge of data centers is how to interconnect a huge number of servers while guaranteeing the performance of the network. Flatnet is a promising data center architecture that has proved its efficiency to connect a scalable number of servers and to achieve a high network capacity, fault-tolerance and low-cost while using only one network layer. However, its long path length impacts the transmission latency and prevents it from being a high performance topology. Based on Flatnet, we propose a new network architecture, called wFlatnet, which adds wireless links to the network as shortcuts aiming at minimizing the path length without adding a burden of installation and cost. The novel design will offer a topology where the distance between any two servers will not exceed four hops taking into consideration load balancing, aggregate bottleneck throughput, power consumption and fault-tolerance properties.","PeriodicalId":315934,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133673284","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}
Antonio Franco, S. Bastani, Emma Fitzgerald, B. Landfeldt
{"title":"OMAC: An Opportunistic Medium Access Control Protocol for IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks","authors":"Antonio Franco, S. Bastani, Emma Fitzgerald, B. Landfeldt","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOMW.2015.7413986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOMW.2015.7413986","url":null,"abstract":"The ambitious goal of the upcoming IEEE 802.11ax (HEW) standard for wireless LANs (WLANs) to enhance throughput by four times (and beyond), compared with IEEE 802.11ac, demands a radical improvement of present medium access control (MAC) functionality. To this end, a promising paradigm would be a graceful migration towards new MAC protocols which incorporate higher certainty in their decisions. However, this requires adequate information to be available to the devices, which in turn incurs excessive costs due to information exchange between devices. Also, scalability becomes an issue for emerging dense networks. In this paper, we take a step forward by proposing an opportunistic MAC (OMAC), which restrains these costs, while increasing throughput of the new generation HEW. OMAC eliminates overhead costs by solely relying on the local capability of devices in measuring signal activities in the channel. A particular OMAC node continually collects and records the received signal strengths (RSS) overheard from the channel, and regards each individual RSS level as being transmitted by a unique node without the need to know the actual identity of the node. The OMAC node uses this knowledge to select a recorded RSS as its reference, and triggers a desired transmission policy whenever a transmission with an RSS sufficiently close to this reference RSS is detected. Our results, obtained using simulations, indicate that OMAC improves the throughput performance significantly, and that the performance gain increases with an increase in network density.","PeriodicalId":315934,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132285029","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}