{"title":"Measuring and modeling mobile phone charger energy consumption and environmental impact","authors":"Mikko V. J. Heikkinen, J. Nurminen","doi":"10.1109/WCNC.2012.6214357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2012.6214357","url":null,"abstract":"This paper studies the electricity consumption of mobile phone chargers. The charger's electricity consumption varies depending on its state. We measured the electricity consumption of various phone and charger models in different states. We also did panel studies on the recharging behavior of smartphone users. Based on these and other sources, we are able to estimate mobile phone recharging electricity consumption, cost, and CO2 emissions both in Europe and in the USA. Our analysis shows that the actual recharging of batteries consumes only 40% of the total energy; the rest is wasted mainly by unnecessarily plugged-in chargers consuming 55% of the total energy.","PeriodicalId":329194,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134598562","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":"Performance evaluation of TCP in IEEE 802.16 networks","authors":"Konstantinos G. Tsiknas, G. Stamatelos","doi":"10.1109/WCNC.2012.6214309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2012.6214309","url":null,"abstract":"An important application for the IEEE 802.16 technology (also called WiMAX) it to provide high-speed access to the Internet where the transmission control protocol (TCP) is the core transport protocol. In this paper we study through extensive simulation scenarios, the performance characteristics of five representative TCP schemes, namely TCP New Reno, Vegas, Veno, Westwood and BIC, in WiMAX networks, under the conditions of correlated wireless errors, asymmetric end-to-end capabilities and link congestion. The target is to evaluate how the above conditions would affect the TCP congestion control, and suggest the best schemes to be employed in WiMAX Networks.","PeriodicalId":329194,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134608247","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":"Self-interference aware MIMO filter design for non-regenerative multi-pair two-way relaying","authors":"Holger Degenhardt, A. Klein","doi":"10.1109/WCNC.2012.6214264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2012.6214264","url":null,"abstract":"A multi-pair two-way relaying scenario with multi-antenna mobile stations is considered. The bidirectional communications between the mobile stations are supported by an intermediate non-regenerative multi-antenna relay station. It is assumed that the mobile stations can subtract the back-propagated self-interference. Different relay transceive filter design approaches which utilize the fact that the mobile stations can perform self-interference cancellation are introduced. First, a self-interference aware MMSE transceive filter is derived. Second, a multi-antenna MMSE extension of the zero-forcing block-diagonalization based approaches is proposed and an upper bound for these approaches is given. The proposed transceive filters require less antennas at the relay station and achieve higher sum rates compared to conventional relay transceive filter approaches which do not exploit the capability of the mobile stations to perform self-interference cancellation.","PeriodicalId":329194,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130307371","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":"Enhanced MIMO subspace detection with interference cancellation","authors":"Yejian Chen, S. Brink","doi":"10.1109/WCNC.2012.6214254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2012.6214254","url":null,"abstract":"A low-complexity detection algorithm is proposed for Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems with many transmit and receive antennas. We involve QR Decomposition (QRD) to triangularize the effective MIMO channel matrix so that several MIMO sub-systems can be individually established, which allow detecting several (possibly overlapping) groups of data streams separately. This method is referred to as MIMO Overlapped Subspace Detection (OSD). Further, we propose an OSD based non-iterative (i.e., without feedback from an outer channel decoder) Interference Cancellation (IC) approach where some streams are cancelled out as reliable interference. Link layer simulations for an 8×8 configuration show that this algorithm not only inherits the feature of OSD, yielding a scalable performance/complexity trade-off, but can also closely approach the MIMO ergodic capacity.","PeriodicalId":329194,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130365534","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":"Concurrent spectrum sensing and data transmission scheme in a CR system","authors":"Woongsup Lee, D. Cho","doi":"10.1109/WCNC.2012.6213985","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2012.6213985","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a spectrum-sensing and data-transmission scheme that utilizes multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) technology to enable the spectrum to be sensed and data to be transmitted simultaneously. By using our proposed scheme, the degradation of quality of service (QoS) that is caused by spectrum sensing can be reduced and the system throughput of a cognitive radio (CR) system can be increased, while the accuracy of the spectrum sensing is unaffected. Even the CR system transmits data during the spectrum sensing, the interference to a primary user which is caused by the CR system will not increase compared to a conventional scheme. We also analyze the performance of the proposed scheme in the presence of channel estimation errors. Through performance evaluations, we show that the proposed scheme can increase the throughput and QoS of CR systems.","PeriodicalId":329194,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115084305","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":"Secondary access based on sensing and primary ARQ feedback in spectrum sharing systems","authors":"Doha Hamza, S. Aïssa","doi":"10.1109/WCNC.2012.6214016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2012.6214016","url":null,"abstract":"In the context of primary/secondary spectrum sharing, we propose a randomized secondary access strategy with access probabilities that are a function of both the primary automatic repeat request (ARQ) feedback and the spectrum sensing outcome. The primary terminal operates in a time slotted fashion and is active only when it has a packet to send. The primary receiver can send a positive acknowledgment (ACK) when the received packet is decoded correctly. Lack of ARQ feedback is interpreted as erroneous reception or inactivity. We call this the explicit ACK scheme. The primary receiver may also send a negative acknowledgment (NACK) when the packet is received in error. Lack of ARQ feedback is interpreted as an ACK or no-transmission. This is called the explicit NACK scheme. Under both schemes, when the primary feedback is interpreted as a NACK, the secondary user assumes that there will be retransmission in the next slot and accesses the channel with a certain probability. When the primary feedback is interpreted as an ACK, the secondary user accesses the channel with either one of two probabilities based on the sensing outcome. Under these settings, we find the three optimal access probabilities via maximizing the secondary throughput given a constraint on the primary throughput. We compare the performance of the explicit ACK and explicit NACK schemes and contrast them with schemes based on either sensing or primary ARQ feedback only.","PeriodicalId":329194,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115198716","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 efficient and versatile key management protocol for secure smart grid communications","authors":"Jung-Yoon Kim, Hyoung-kee Choi","doi":"10.1109/WCNC.2012.6214081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2012.6214081","url":null,"abstract":"Numerous entities in a smart grid network communicate with each other via unicast, multicast, and broadcast communications in order to enhance the efficiency, reliability, and intelligence of the power supply chain. This paper proposes an efficient and scalable key management protocol for secure unicast, multicast, and broadcast communications in a smart grid network. The proposed protocol is based on a binary tree approach, and supports all these three types of secure communications by using only one binary tree. The analysis and discussion show that the proposed protocol is versatile, and hence suitable for secure smart grid communications.","PeriodicalId":329194,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114519983","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}
M. Dakkak, A. Nakib, B. Daachi, P. Siarry, J. Lemoine
{"title":"Mobile indoor location based on fractional differentiation","authors":"M. Dakkak, A. Nakib, B. Daachi, P. Siarry, J. Lemoine","doi":"10.1109/WCNC.2012.6214119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2012.6214119","url":null,"abstract":"While the static indoor location of a mobile terminal (MT) has been extensively studied on last decade, the prediction of the trajectory of a MT still is the major problem for building mobile location (tracking) systems (TSs). This problem is solved for outdoor TSs using global positioning system (GPS), however, it remains an essential obstacle to construct reliable indoor TSs. Different approaches were proposed in the literature, the most used is that based on prediction filters, such as linear filters (LF), Kalman filters (KF) and particle filters (PF). In this paper, we propose to enhance the performance of the predictors using digital fractional differentiation (DFD) to predict a MT trajectory. To illustrate the obtained results, three indoor trajectory scenarios inspired from real daily promenades are simulated (museum visit, hospital doctor walking and shopping in the market). Experimental results show a significant improvement of the performance of the classical predictors, particularly in noisy cases.","PeriodicalId":329194,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114082879","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":"Intra-site CoMP in LTE-A systems: An antenna-selection-based solution","authors":"B. Liao, Wen-Rong Wu, Hung-Tao Hsieh","doi":"10.1109/WCNC.2012.6214487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2012.6214487","url":null,"abstract":"It is known that in cellular systems, the users in cell edge suffer from the interference from interfering cells. In LTE-A, coordinated multi-point (CoMP) processing was proposed to solve the problem. In CoMP, the transmitted/received signals of the users in neighbor cells can be jointly processed such that interference can be either avoided or estimated as desired signals. In the current CoMP operations, precoding is only conducted between individual base-stations and the served user. If we take all the base-stations and the served user into consideration, a network multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) system can be constructed. Precoding in such system will have better performance but require a high-dimension codebook which is not supported by current LTE-A systems. In this paper, we first propose a method to solve the problem. The idea is to use the antenna selection technique reducing the number of transmitted antennas such that the existing codebooks can still be used. Existing selection criteria for the maximum likelihood receivers often require sophisticated matrix operations such as QR-decomposition (QRD). Thus, the required computational complexity is high. We then propose some selection criteria without involving matrix operations. Simulations show that while the antenna-selection based precoding method can reduce the feedback overhead and at the same time improve the precoding performance. Also, the performance of the proposed low-complexity criteria is similar to that of the QRD-based criteria.","PeriodicalId":329194,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114761069","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":"Multi-device service continuity with adaptive resources provisioning under ubiquitous network","authors":"Jie Chang, Wen’an Zhou, Junde Song","doi":"10.1109/WCNC.2012.6214296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2012.6214296","url":null,"abstract":"The service continuity mechanism is to provide multimedia application with seamless multimedia experience over multiple networks (Wifi, 3G, Wimax, LTE) as well as multiple devices (mobile, PCs, PDA, Settop box) in ubiquitous network. However, most of the proposed approaches of service continuity are either not adaptive resources provisioning or based on a specific definition of context in ubiquitous network environment. This paper presents a multi-device service continuity with adaptive resources provisioning mechanism under ubiquitous network relying on IMS which helps perform service continuity according to user's contexts (such as preferences and habits), network context, service context and device context. The contribution of this paper is to propose: 1) service continuity scenario, architecture and requirements; 2) signaling flow of resource switching for the proposed scenario is proposed; 3) process of adaptive resources provisioning is put forward. Evaluation results show that the service continuity approach based on context-aware, multi-device coordination and adaptive resources provisioning process outperforms the traditional service continuity.","PeriodicalId":329194,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116090316","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}