Mohammad Mozaffari, Y.-P. Eric Wang, O. Liberg, Johan Bergman
{"title":"Flexible and Efficient Deployment of NB-IoT and LTE-MTC in Coexistence with 5G New Radio","authors":"Mohammad Mozaffari, Y.-P. Eric Wang, O. Liberg, Johan Bergman","doi":"10.1109/INFCOMW.2019.8845119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INFCOMW.2019.8845119","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses the coexistence of Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) or Long Term Evolution for Machine-Type Communications (LTE-MTC, a.k.a. LTE-M) on one hand, and the 5th generation (5G) New Radio access (NR) on the other. We propose an effective scheme which maintains resource efficiency and prevents mutual interference, by optimally placing an NB-IoT or LTE-M carrier inside an NR carrier. Our scheme enables the deployment on the same spectrum of NR for mobile broadband and ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) services and NB-IoT or LTE-M for IoT services. We analyze the problem of subcarrier grid and resource block alignments in the coexistence of NR with NB-IoT and LTE-M carriers. Finally, we provide comprehensive results on the optimal locations of NB-IoT and LTE-M which are deployed inside NR for various NR channel bandwidths.","PeriodicalId":321862,"journal":{"name":"IEEE INFOCOM 2019 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115082348","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}
V. Siris, Dimitrios Dimopoulos, N. Fotiou, Spyros Voulgaris, George C. Polyzos
{"title":"Interledger Smart Contracts for Decentralized Authorization to Constrained Things","authors":"V. Siris, Dimitrios Dimopoulos, N. Fotiou, Spyros Voulgaris, George C. Polyzos","doi":"10.1109/INFCOMW.2019.8845275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INFCOMW.2019.8845275","url":null,"abstract":"We present models that utilize smart contracts and interledger mechanisms to provide decentralized authorization for constrained IoT devices. The models involve different tradeoffs in terms of cost, delay, complexity, and privacy, while exploiting key advantages of smart contracts and multiple blockchains that communicate with interledger mechanisms. These include immutably recording hashes of authorization information and policies in smart contracts, resilience through the execution of smart contract code on all blockchain nodes, and cryptographically linking transactions and IoT events recorded on different blockchains using hash and time-lock mechanisms. The proposed models are evaluated on the public Ethereum testnets Rinkeby and Ropsten, in terms of execution cost (gas), delay, and reduction of data that needs to be sent to the constrained IoT devices.","PeriodicalId":321862,"journal":{"name":"IEEE INFOCOM 2019 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)","volume":"194 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120940450","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}
Panagiotis Vamvakas, Eirini-Eleni Tsiropoulou, S. Papavassiliou
{"title":"On the Prospect of UAV-assisted Communications Paradigm in Public Safety Networks","authors":"Panagiotis Vamvakas, Eirini-Eleni Tsiropoulou, S. Papavassiliou","doi":"10.1109/INFCOMW.2019.8845131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INFCOMW.2019.8845131","url":null,"abstract":"Modern models for Public Safety Networks (PSNs) utilize Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) acting as ad-hoc base stations and complementing the Macro Base Station (MBS) to support the ground users' efficient and undisturbed communication. In this paper, we introduce a holistic and realistic framework that dynamically enables the ground users to invest their transmission power in an autonomous manner either in the UAV-based and/or MBS-based communication, while accounting for their Quality of Service (QoS) prerequisites and risk preferences. The UAV-based communication is characterized by limited available bandwidth, but close distance among the users and the UAV, thus resulting in users' low transmission powers and high achievable data rate, if properly utilized. In our work, the UAV's bandwidth is treated as a Common Pool of Resources (CPR), which can be exploited by all the users residing in the disaster area. However, the latter comes at the expense of resource fragility and potential failure from over-exploitation, due to its fully shared nature and excessive competition among the users. In contrast, the MBS due to its inherent characteristics acts as a safe resource, providing a guaranteed perceived satisfaction to the users based on their transmission power investment. Considering ground users' diverse behavioral patterns, when probabilistic uncertainty of the UAV's shared bandwidth is introduced, we model the ground users' power control problem under the principles of Prospect Theory. The formulated resource orchestration problem is solved as a Fragile CPR game and its convergence to a unique Pure Nash Equilibrium (PNE) point is proven. A distributed low-complexity algorithm that converges to the unique PNE is devised, while the performance of the proposed approach is evaluated through modeling and simulation.","PeriodicalId":321862,"journal":{"name":"IEEE INFOCOM 2019 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134240619","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":"LoRa-based Localization System for Emergency Services in GPS-less Environments","authors":"Andrew Mackey, P. Spachos","doi":"10.1109/INFCOMW.2019.8845189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INFCOMW.2019.8845189","url":null,"abstract":"The introduction of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) to the public has provided millions of people with navigation and positioning services around the globe. However, it is known that no matter the improvements to accuracy, fundamentally, GPS cannot provide location information in extreme environments, such as underwater and underground. Hence, there is a growing need for alternative technologies and methodologies of providing localization in such extreme or GPS-less environments. This paper introduces a low-power and low-cost substitute founded on Long Range (LoRa) to realize similar localization capabilities, based on the Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) techniques. LoRa transceivers support swift deployment in GPS-less emergency scenarios, providing emergency teams with critical location and sensing data. According to outdoor experimental results, LoRa is a promising solution for wireless localization systems at GPS-less environments.","PeriodicalId":321862,"journal":{"name":"IEEE INFOCOM 2019 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)","volume":"356 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132739856","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":"Walker: DevOps Inspired Workflow for Experimentation","authors":"Mikolaj Chwalisz, Kai Geissdoerfer, A. Wolisz","doi":"10.1109/INFCOMW.2019.8845199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INFCOMW.2019.8845199","url":null,"abstract":"Experimentation with computer networks under realistic conditions is a necessary step in debugging, profiling and validation towards real deployments and applications. Although the definition of relevant experimentation scenarios is usually relatively straightforward, their implementation and execution are unfortunately difficult and tedious. Generation of extensive experiment documentation assuring replicability is increasingly challenging even for experienced researchers. In this paper, we explain how a typical experimentation workflow can be supported using properly selected tools and components from the DevOps ecosystem, leading to repeatable, well-defined measurements. We start with a general approach using ad-hoc setups. Next, we show how the featured set of tools can be used with, and benefit from, existing testbeds.","PeriodicalId":321862,"journal":{"name":"IEEE INFOCOM 2019 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132766992","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}
Othmane Oubejja, Diane Duchemin, Matthieu Imbert, L. Cardoso, J. Gorce
{"title":"Framework for PHY-MAC layers Prototyping in Dense IoT Networks using FIT/CorteXlab Testbed","authors":"Othmane Oubejja, Diane Duchemin, Matthieu Imbert, L. Cardoso, J. Gorce","doi":"10.1109/INFCOMW.2019.8845293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INFCOMW.2019.8845293","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present an Internet-of-Things (IoT) network implementation developed as part of the project “Enhanced Physical Layer for Cellular IoT” (EPHYL), using FIT/CorteXlab radio testbed. The aim of our work is to provide a customizable and open source design for IoT networks prototyping in a massive multi-user, synchronized and reproducible environment thanks to the hardware and software capabilities of the testbed. The massive access feature is managed by emulating several sensors per radio nodes. Two categories of network components are used in our design: a base station unit and a multi-sensor emulator unit. The components are separately hosted in dedicated and remotely accessible radio nodes. Their design features can be illustrated through a live demo, which is also reproducible as it is available for any interested reader.","PeriodicalId":321862,"journal":{"name":"IEEE INFOCOM 2019 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134401030","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}
Piush K. Sinha, Spoorti Doddamani, Hui Lu, Kartik Gopalan
{"title":"mWarp: Accelerating Intra-Host Live Container Migration via Memory Warping","authors":"Piush K. Sinha, Spoorti Doddamani, Hui Lu, Kartik Gopalan","doi":"10.1109/INFCOMW.2019.8845167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INFCOMW.2019.8845167","url":null,"abstract":"Live container migration allows containers to roam from one server to another to achieve agility goals like load balancing, tackling machine failures, scaling in/out and reallocating resources. However, migrating a container is also costly mainly due to memory state migration — a large number of memory pages need to be copied from the source server to the destination server. In this paper, we propose a fast and live container migration approach, mWarp, in an intra-host scenario, where both the source and destination virtual machine (VM) servers reside on the same physical host. Instead of copying a container's memory, mWarp relocates the ownership of the container's physical memory pages from the source VM to the destination VM with a highly-efficient memory remapping mechanism. As relocation of memory ownership is light-weight, mWarp leads to fast and live container migration with less service disruption to applications running in containers being migrated. We implement mWarp upon a well-known live container migration tool (CRIU) with key kernel/hypervisor-level support. The evaluation with both micro benchmarks and real-world applications shows that mWarp greatly reduces the total container migration time and downtime (e.g., by an order of magnitude) with significantly improved application-level performance (e.g., by 20%).","PeriodicalId":321862,"journal":{"name":"IEEE INFOCOM 2019 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133604962","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":"Understanding the Usage Characteristics of Personalized Online Video Services","authors":"Jingying Li, Zhaohua Wang, Zhenyu Li","doi":"10.1109/INFCOMW.2019.8845313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INFCOMW.2019.8845313","url":null,"abstract":"Personalized online video services, including personalized live streaming and personalized short video services, have gained immense popularity and social influence. Understanding their usage characteristics is fundamental for service providers, app developers and network operators. Using a dataset of over 2 billion access logs from a cellular network, this paper examines the usage pattern and user behavior of personalized online video services. Our key observation is that, in spite of the significant differences in used devices and interests in other apps, the users in both personalized live streaming and personalized short video services are mainly entertainment oriented. Besides, these two services show limited association with the traditional online video service. We also reveal that the user moving range is a key factor that influences user engagement in personalized short videos, but not in personalized live streaming. Other observations include biased spatial usage distribution and heavy-tailed usage time distribution for both types of services.","PeriodicalId":321862,"journal":{"name":"IEEE INFOCOM 2019 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132704527","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}
Guillem Duran, J. Valero, J. Amigó, Á. Giménez, O. Bonastre
{"title":"Bifurcation analysis for the Internet congestion","authors":"Guillem Duran, J. Valero, J. Amigó, Á. Giménez, O. Bonastre","doi":"10.1109/infcomw.2019.8845266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/infcomw.2019.8845266","url":null,"abstract":"The bifurcation and chaotic behavior of TCP may cause heavy oscillation of average queue length at routers and induce network instability. In this context, congestion control in the Internet is a challenging problem of key importance. This work presents a new discrete dynamical model of Random Early Detection (RED) using beta distribution for controlling bifurcations and chaos in the internet congestion control. The numerical analysis and the simulation experiments show that this new Active Queue Management (AQM) model can obtain the stable average queue length to the desired fix point. The model programmed with Python and Mathematica incorporates new parameters (α, β) that make it possible to stabilize oscillations of averaged router queue length and to be close to stationary state.","PeriodicalId":321862,"journal":{"name":"IEEE INFOCOM 2019 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115125626","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}