Yinpeng Yu, Chathurika Ranaweera, C. Lim, E. Wong, Lei Guo, Yejun Liu, A. Nirmalathas
{"title":"Optimization and Deployment of Survivable Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) Access Networks with Integrated Small Cell and WiFi","authors":"Yinpeng Yu, Chathurika Ranaweera, C. Lim, E. Wong, Lei Guo, Yejun Liu, A. Nirmalathas","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324491","url":null,"abstract":"Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) access network as a small cell backhaul is now becoming a promising architecture to satisfy the rapid growth of demand for mobile data traffic. With increasing amount of network traffic, the failure of network components such as distribution fiber link failure may lead to unpredictable service outages. The network survivability through protection and restoration has become a critical requirement. Thus, in this paper, we explore the protection mechanism for small cells by integrating WiFi and rerouting of data traffic over WiFi to offer some restoration of backhaul capacity. Using this architecture, we propose a novel method to optimize the deployment and maximize the coverage of survivable FiWi access network, with appropriate constraints from connectivity, survivability, capacity and delay perspectives. Our simulation results show the successful reconfiguration of survivable FiWi access networks with integrated small cell and WiFi under different simulated network failure scenarios and we demonstrate feasibility of the proposed optimization method.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123975679","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 Results of Rician K-Factor and Co-Polarization Ratio of 60 GHz Wireless Channel in an Underground Mine Gallery","authors":"S. Tariq, C. Despins, S. Affes, C. Nerguizian","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324451","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, experimental results of the Rician K-factor and the co-polarization ratio (CPR) are obtained and discussed from measurements conducted at 40 m CANMET underground mine gallery with Horn and Omnidirectional antennas with Horizontal (H) and Vertical (V) polarizations. These results suggest that the VV polarization offers a larger number of multipath components than the HH polarization, a correlation coefficient of about 0.86 between them, and an average CPR of about 6 dB. Furthermore, the average value of the Rician K-factor shows little or no difference between the HH and VV polarizations. The average CPR value remains around 6 dB. A correlation coefficient of multipath total power between HH and VV polarization is also found to be 0.8649.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114137791","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":"A Statistical Analysis of RF-Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks","authors":"Ala Abu Alkheir, I. Al-Anbagi, Hussein T. Mouftah","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324412","url":null,"abstract":"The ability of wireless terminals to harvest energy from Radio Frequency (RF) signals is gaining tremendous momentum as a mean to prolong the lifetime of these terminals and to recycle the radiated energy. This article gives a much needed statistical analysis for the amount of harvested energy over a period of time T. By studying the input/output characteristics of a typical harvesting circuit, we show that i) the amount of harvested energy over a period of T seconds, denoted by ψ<sub>out</sub>, is a stochastic process, and ii) that it can be written as a scaled version of the amount of incoming energy, ψ<sub>in</sub>, over the same period of time, i.e., ψ<sub>out</sub> = ε̂ψ<sub>in</sub>, where ε̂ ∈ [0, 1] is the harvesting efficiency. We also unveil the dependence of ψ<sub>out</sub> on the sensitivity of the harvesting circuit which is captured using a Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) threshold, γ<sub>th</sub>.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"82 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114110254","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}
Reza Movahedinia, M. Niroo-jazi, M. Akbari, A. Sebak, M. R. Chaharmir
{"title":"Improvement of Transmit-Receive Array Antenna Isolation by Employing Multilayer EBG Structure","authors":"Reza Movahedinia, M. Niroo-jazi, M. Akbari, A. Sebak, M. R. Chaharmir","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324463","url":null,"abstract":"A novel multilayer electromagnetic band-gap (EBG) structure for reducing transmit-receive (T/R) isolation of two X- band antenna arrays is presented. The proposed configuration is a combination of two EBG-mushroom structure which are placed on the top and bottom layer of a dielectric substrate. To verify its efficiency this structure is applied for isolation improvement in two cases of two single patch antenna and the two antenna arrays working in X band. The obtained results using this isolator demonstrate a drastic decrease in the mutual coupling level (28 dB) while it improves the radiation performance. This EBG structure could be a good candidate for radar applications which require closely packed transmit/receive arrays.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"9 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124465202","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":"A Branch-and-Bound Algorithm for Discrete Receive Beamforming with Improved Bounds","authors":"J. Israel, A. Fischer, J. Martinovic","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324395","url":null,"abstract":"We discuss the SINR-maximization problem for analog receive beamforming with finite resolution phase shifters and amplifiers. This discrete optimization problem can be globally solved by means of branch-and-bound. The performance of the algorithm depends on the quality of bounds for the subproblems which are determined within the branch-and-bound procedure. These subproblems can be generated by a successive fixing of beamforming components but turn out to be difficult nonconvex optimization problems. It is known that the introduction of an additional variable yields easier convex problems such that bounds can be determined efficiently. We use the concept of fractional programming to improve these bounds and show that this may provide a significant reduction of iterations and computational expense.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123626376","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":"A Context-Aware Cognitive SIMO DL Transceiver for LTE HetNet Enhanced Pico-Cell Range Expansion","authors":"I. Mrissa, F. Bellili, S. Affes, A. Stephenne","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324398","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324398","url":null,"abstract":"Deploying small cells (pico, femto or relays) in a macro-cell network is an advantageous solution to increase system capacity. However, small cells usually transmit with a weaker power compared to macro-cells, this fact causes a serious interference problem for these former. Range Expansion technique is among the solutions proposed to overcome this problem. The idea is to bias the received signal power from pico-cells in an advantage manner so that we have more UEs offloaded from macro-cell than the real case. Many solutions were proposed in the literature to enhance Range Expansion technique performances. In this paper, we design a new single-input multiple-output (SIMO) context-aware cognitive transceiver (CTR) that is able to switch to the best performing modem in terms of link-level throughput. On the top of conventional adaptive modulation and coding (AMC), we allow the context-aware CTR to make best selection among three different pilot-utilization modes: conventional decision-aided (DA) or pilot- assisted, non-DA (NDA) or blind, and NDA with pilot which is a newly proposed hybrid version between the DA and NDA modes. We also enable the CTR to make best selection between two different channel identification schemes: conventional least-square (LS) and newly developed maximum-likelihood (ML) estimators. Depending on whether pilot symbols can be properly exploited or not at the receiver, we further enable the CTR to make best selection among two data detection modes: coherent or differential. We note that a considerable gains reaching $48%$ and $42%$ for $5^{th}$ percentile cell-site and average cell-site throughput respectively can be achieved by using jointly our cognitive transceiver with Range Expansion technique.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"113 26","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131942493","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":"Single-Layer UWB FSS for Enhancing the Gain of UWB Monopole Antenna","authors":"Rabia Yahya, A. Nakamura, M. Itami","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324511","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, new ultra-wide band (UWB) stop-band frequency selective surface (FSS) is proposed and its capability of enhancing the gain of UWB monopole antenna in constant manner is proved. The frequency band over which flat stop-band response is achieved, covers the entire UWB band from 3 to 12GHz for both polarizations. The proposed FSS constitutes with compact size unit cells printed on one side of dielectric substrate. Providing good candidate for UWB applications especially, as reflector to maximize the gain of UWB omnidirectional antennas which has been proved by means of using circular monopole UWB antenna as radiator. The features of the proposed UWB FSS make it an optimized solution for integration with compact broadband circuits as well.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134436380","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":"Accurate 3-D Imaging Method Based on Range Points Migration for 140GHz-Band Radar","authors":"Yuta Sasaki, S. Kidera, T. Kirimoto","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324416","url":null,"abstract":"Ultra-wideband (UWB) millimeter wave radar has a great advantage for achieving higher spatial resolution and is promising for collision avoidance or target recognition in short range sensing issue. In this paper, we focus on the 140- GHz band radar system, which has a significant advantage for wider frequency range and more compact radar module. For such application, we have originally developed an accurate and high-speed imaging method named as range points migration (RPM), which is based on a 3-D target boundary extraction scheme. This paper introduces the existing RPM radar to achieve fast data acquisition with multiple receivers. To enhance a computational cost and accuracy, we newly introduce the pre- and post-processing algorithms for the original multi-static RPM method, as range points selection and isolated points elimination. Results from numerical simulations assuming 140 GHz radar system, demonstrate that the proposed method accomplishes more efficient 3-D imaging compared with that obtained by the original RPM method.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132772767","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}
A. Mazhorova, S. Ho, M. Clerici, M. Peccianti, A. Pasquazi, L. Razzari, J. Ali, R. Morandotti
{"title":"Micro-Slit Based Coherent Detection of Terahertz Pulses in Biased, Solid State Media","authors":"A. Mazhorova, S. Ho, M. Clerici, M. Peccianti, A. Pasquazi, L. Razzari, J. Ali, R. Morandotti","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324473","url":null,"abstract":"We demonstrated coherent Terahertz characterization based on the Terahertz Field Induced Second Harmonic effect in few microns thick Silica (SiO2) samples that can be easily operated with as little as a few hundred Volts. Our sample is an infinitely long 30 μm slit written in gold. The underlying idea of our work is that of exploiting the large breakdown voltage and the high nonlinearity of glass to achieve a large signal to noise ratio detection with a very weak optical probe at moderate bias fields, thus drastically reducing the electrodes gap. Our results pave the way to a novel approach towards broadband THz detection.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130242425","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. Ashraf, O. Haraz, Mohammed Alshareef, H. Behairy, S. Alshebeili
{"title":"Design of a Chipless UWB RFID Tag Using CPW Circular Monopole Antennas and Multi-Resonators","authors":"M. Ashraf, O. Haraz, Mohammed Alshareef, H. Behairy, S. Alshebeili","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324434","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the design of a chipless ultra-wideband radio frequency identification (UWB RFID) tag. The tag is composed of two modified coplanar waveguide (CPW) circular monopole antennas and seven bit multi-resonator. The proposed tag can be identified based on spectral signature (SS) that is used to encode the incident signals in the frequency range from 6 GHz to 8 GHz. The designed monopole antennas and multi- resonator are characterized using full wave simulation program. Complete RFID system is modeled and time domain characteristics of the pulse received at the receiver's antenna is studied. Results show that the encoded pulse exhibits different signature compared to the incident pulse that can be easily distinguished in time domain.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114634416","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}