Lin Shan, Ou Zhao, K. Temma, K. Hattori, Huan-Bang Li, F. Kojima, F. Adachi
{"title":"Experimental evaluation of energy efficiency for virtual small-cell networks using smartphone test-bed","authors":"Lin Shan, Ou Zhao, K. Temma, K. Hattori, Huan-Bang Li, F. Kojima, F. Adachi","doi":"10.23919/APCC.2017.8303985","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/APCC.2017.8303985","url":null,"abstract":"Our main aim is to develop and demonstrate energy saving technologies for mobile terminals (MTs) equipped with multiple wireless interfaces. We propose a new framework of device-to-device (D2D) cooperative virtual small-cell network in which a MT acts a virtual base station to take advantage of the good channel quality of long range link and the low energy consuming interface of short range link to save energy in MTs. In the proposed D2D cooperative virtual small-cell framework, how to select proxy MT which connects to the wide area network (WAN) and provides the local area network (LAN) connection to cooperated MTs is an important issue, and it is influenced by multiple factors such as channel quality both in WAN and LAN, throughput, battery lifetime, mobility of MTs. In this paper, the energy efficiency improvement is evaluated by a smartphone test-bed and the impacts of WAN channel condition and the number of cooperated MTs are discussed. The result shows that up to 66% improvement can be achieved by the proposal compared to the traditional systems without cooperation.","PeriodicalId":320208,"journal":{"name":"2017 23rd Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126730236","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":"AOA-TOA based localization for 5G cell-less communications","authors":"Seungnyun Kim, S. Park, Hyoungju Ji, B. Shim","doi":"10.23919/APCC.2017.8304042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/APCC.2017.8304042","url":null,"abstract":"Cell-less communication is one of a promising technology of 5G wireless communications for providing a user-centric approach that goes beyond the regional cell of the conventional cellular system. In order to provide user-centric services, location information of the mobile station is required. In this paper, we propose a new localization technique to support the cell-less communication. The proposed scheme consists of two parts. First, estimating the signal parameters, angle of arrival (AOA) and time of arrival (TOA) through the maximum likelihood estimation. After the signal parameter estimation, the localization of the mobile station is performed using the estimated AOA-TOA information. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves substantial performance in estimating the location of the mobile station.","PeriodicalId":320208,"journal":{"name":"2017 23rd Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC)","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121871853","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":"Space-frequency-mode multi-dimensional hybrid modulation in OAM based MIMO-OFDM systems","authors":"W. Cheng, Yi Liu, Hailin Zhang","doi":"10.23919/APCC.2017.8303971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/APCC.2017.8303971","url":null,"abstract":"A new modulation scheme, referred to as space-frequency-mode multi-dimensional hybrid modulation (SFMHM), is proposed to be integrated with multiple-input-multiple-output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) system in this paper. The key idea of SFMHM is to map a block of information bits to two information carrying units: 1)symbols chosen from a constellation diagram and 2)a subset chosen from all possible combinations of antennas, orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes and subcarriers, which means that only a part of antennas, OAM modes and subcarriers will be activated at any given time. Specifically, the use of the second part will add three additional dimensions to conventional two-dimensional (2-D) amplitude/phase modulation techniques, which will improve the achievable rate significantly. For SFMHM scheme, we propose a computationally efficient mapping method by taking advantage of combinadic representation in combinatorial system, and we further study the achievable rate. Finally, simulation results show that, for the same configuration at the transmitter, SFMHM can achieve higher rate compared with conventional MIMO-OFDM.","PeriodicalId":320208,"journal":{"name":"2017 23rd Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122112842","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}
Xintong Lu, Xi Yang, Shi Jin, Chao-Kai Wen, Wen‐Jun Lu
{"title":"TDD-based massive MIMO system with multi-antenna user equipments","authors":"Xintong Lu, Xi Yang, Shi Jin, Chao-Kai Wen, Wen‐Jun Lu","doi":"10.23919/APCC.2017.8304054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/APCC.2017.8304054","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present the link-level simulation of a time division duplex (TDD)-based massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system with multi-antenna user equipments (UEs). The system model of the proposed massive MIMO system is first given, based on which the general settings of our link-level simulation are presented, including the essential parameters, the LTE-like frame structure, and the discontinuous pilot allocation for all UEs. Block diagrams are then illustrated, along with the link-level data transmission procedures of both the uplink and the downlink. Thereinto, the low-complexity but well-performance channel estimation algorithm and the MIMO detector for the uplink are introduced, and two block diagonalization (BD) precoding schemes for the downlink are also illustrated. Finally, numerical results in terms of the bit error rate (BER) and the throughput are investigated and analyzed. Running time for these two proposed precoding schemes is also given for comparison of computational complexity.","PeriodicalId":320208,"journal":{"name":"2017 23rd Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC)","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131694009","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":"Transmitter beamforming control based on firefly algorithm for massive MIMO systems with per-antenna power constraint","authors":"Takashi Yamanaka, K. Higuchi","doi":"10.23919/APCC.2017.8303979","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/APCC.2017.8303979","url":null,"abstract":"In the massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) downlink, transmitter beamforming (BF) to achieve a beamforming (power) gain and/or a reduction in inter-user interference in a multiuser MIMO case based on the channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter side is essential. Massive MIMO requires a large number of transmitter power amplifiers dedicated to each of the transmitter antennas, and the allowable transmit power per power amplifier (thus per transmitter antenna) is severely limited. Therefore, it is necessary to perform transmission BF considering the limitation on the transmit power per antenna. In this paper, we consider BF control using the firefly algorithm (FA) assuming the per-antenna transmit power constraint aiming at maximizing the system throughput defined as log-sum user throughput (equivalently the geometric mean user throughput) corresponding to proportional fairness (PF). The FA is a kind of swarm intelligence and by mimicking the behavior of fireflies that move toward neighboring fireflies based on the distance and brightness of the neighboring fireflies, a multimodal optimization solution is obtained efficiently. By setting the BF matrix as the position of the firefly and the obtainable metric for the system throughput maximization as the brightness of the firefly, we apply the FA to the BF control. We evaluate the performance of BF control using the FA from the viewpoint of the geometric mean user throughput based on computer simulations.","PeriodicalId":320208,"journal":{"name":"2017 23rd Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123341775","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":"D2D communications based scarcity-aware two-stage multicast for video streaming","authors":"Xuesen Peng, Jianbang Liu, Li Wuyu, Ping Wang, Caihong Kai, Shengli Zhang","doi":"10.23919/APCC.2017.8304057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/APCC.2017.8304057","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a device-to-device (D2D) communications based scarcity-aware two-stage multicast mechanism for delivering video streaming, in which the Base Station (BS) and D2D perform cooperative retransmissions to improve the mobile video quality and relieve the load of BS as well. In prior works, after BS's one-round multicast, the clients directly resort to D2D communications to obtain the missing frames by forming social groups. However, after the first-round multicast of BS, it is possible that some frames have not been correctly received by most of the clients, especially when the channel conditions are not good. That is, there are scarce frames in the network and the clients have very limited copies of them. In this case, it is inefficient for the clients to form social groups and directly exchange frames through D2D communications. Instead, this paper proposes an adaptive two-stage multicast mechanism: the BS first multicast video packets to the clients who request the same video services, after which the clients collect the information of missing frames and send it to the BS. Then the BS evaluates the scarcity of frames and re-multicast the scarce frames, if any, to the clients. After the BS's second-round multicast, the clients can then form groups to perform D2D communications so as to obtain the remaining missing packets from each other. Numerical studies show that the proposed simple scarcity-aware two-stage multicast mechanism can achieve about 5% video quality improvement than the existing one-stage multicast mechanism and have the potential to enhance the downlink capacity of the future 5G wireless network.","PeriodicalId":320208,"journal":{"name":"2017 23rd Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC)","volume":"23 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130654996","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}
Sahar Chehrazad, H. S. Aghdasi, N. Shariati, M. Abolhasan
{"title":"Addressing coverage problem in wireless sensor networks based on evolutionary algorithms","authors":"Sahar Chehrazad, H. S. Aghdasi, N. Shariati, M. Abolhasan","doi":"10.23919/APCC.2017.8304032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/APCC.2017.8304032","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are the key part of Internet of Things, as they provide the physical interface between on-field information and backbone analytic engines. An important role of WSNs-when collecting vital information-is to provide a consistent and reliable coverage. To Achieve this, WSNs must implement a highly reliable and efficient coverage recovery algorithm. In this paper, we take a fresh new approach to coverage recovery based on evolutionary algorithms. We propose EMACB-SA, which introduces a new evolutionary algorithm that selects coverage sets using a fitness function that balances energy efficiency and redundancy. The proposed algorithm improves network's coverage and lifetime in areas with heterogeneous event rate in comparison to previous works and hence, it is suitable for using in disaster management.","PeriodicalId":320208,"journal":{"name":"2017 23rd Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133554045","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":"Reconstruction of vertical rainfall fields using satellite communication links","authors":"Xi Shen, D. Huang, Lu Xu, Xiaowen Tang","doi":"10.23919/APCC.2017.8304084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/APCC.2017.8304084","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose to reconstruct the vertical plane of a rainfall field using rain attenuation of satellite signal links. With received signals at multiple ground stations form multiple satellites, linear least squares is employed to reconstruct the the rain attenuation, thereby the rainfall maps. We use a synthetic super-cell event as our reconstruction target and firstly propose a simple model to simulate satellite link attenuation caused by the rain event. Simulation results suggest that the reconstruction is successful when two satellite-receiver pairs are employed.","PeriodicalId":320208,"journal":{"name":"2017 23rd Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC)","volume":"17 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132236978","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":"QoS-constrained area spectral efficiency in ultra-reliable and low-latency industrial wireless networks","authors":"Bo Chang","doi":"10.23919/APCC.2017.8304074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/APCC.2017.8304074","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a new metric, i.e., QoS-constrained area spectral efficiency (ASE), to analyze the downlink performance of the ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (URLLC) in industrial wireless networks. We first study the difference between the URLLC capacity and the conventional Shannon capacity. Then, we discuss the ASE performance under the constraints of both stringent end-to-end (E2E) delay and transmission reliability. Based on this, we formulate an ASE maximizing problem with power and QoS constraints. Finally, we propose a sub-optimal algorithm to obtain the power allocation by distributed method. Simulation results show the performance of the proposed method.","PeriodicalId":320208,"journal":{"name":"2017 23rd Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC)","volume":"127 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134311521","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":"Experimental evaluation of less-than-best-effort TCP over 802.11 wireless networks","authors":"Kevin Ong, S. Zander, David Murray, T. McGill","doi":"10.23919/APCC.2017.8303998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/APCC.2017.8303998","url":null,"abstract":"The majority of Internet traffic now involves wireless devices. Increasing use of online backup services and the popularity of user-generated content have increased the demand for bandwidth and may impact on delay-sensitive applications. Less-than-Best-Effort TCP congestion control mechanisms aim to minimise the impact of lower-priority applications on regular TCP traffic, but their performance over wireless networks is not well understood. We evaluate the performance of six Less-than-Best-Effort congestion control algorithms over 802.11n in a Linux testbed. We also consider the effect of high fixed-path delay on the performance of LBE mechanisms. The findings of this study suggest that Nice and CAIA Delay-Gradient (CDG) have the lowest impact on regular TCP traffic at low-delay settings, at the expense of reduced throughput. However, while CDG experiences even greater reductions to throughput in high-delay settings, Nice has a greater impact on regular traffic.","PeriodicalId":320208,"journal":{"name":"2017 23rd Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC)","volume":"08 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133176758","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}