F. Blanchard, Tomoki Hiraoka, T. Arikawa, Koichiro Tanaka, S. Tani, Tomoko Tanaka
{"title":"Visualization and Manipulation of Terahertz Light in the Near-Field","authors":"F. Blanchard, Tomoki Hiraoka, T. Arikawa, Koichiro Tanaka, S. Tani, Tomoko Tanaka","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324528","url":null,"abstract":"Plasmonics is part of the fascinating field of nanophotonics, which explores how electromagnetic fields can be confined over dimensions smaller than the wavelength. Given that THz waves may be generated and detected using ultra-short laser pulses, i.e. femtosecond (fs) laser, coherent time-domain THz measurement enable direct reading of the amplitude and phase information of the electric field. Combined with this capability, exploring the electromagnetic interactions of THz waves below diffraction limit is a powerful tool to understand the plasmonic nature of light at the metal/insulator interface. Here, we summarize on the recent advances in THz microscopy based on 2-dimensional electro optic (EO) imaging using an intense THz pulse source. These recent achievements in optimizing the spatial resolution and acquisition time will drastically accelerate our comprehension of the subwavelength light-matter interactions at THz frequencies and enable, among others, new sensing applications. Our discussion will include demonstrations on field enhancement in metallic-based resonators and potential avenues using THz vortex beam.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"36 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":"128584746","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":"Fair Load Balancing in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks","authors":"Edenalisoa Rakotomanana, F. Gagnon","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324453","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose heuristic algorithms to solve an original NP-hard load equalization problem in cellular Heterogeneous Networks (HetNets). Primarily, we suggest a user association scheme applying dynamic cell range expansion (DCRE) for small cells, where a dynamic power offset is optimized and used to enhance their coverage area and thus improve network load balancing. Thereafter, we introduce a second user association scheme called fairness gain based load equalization (FGBLE), where selection of mobile users (MUs) is based on the measured MUs' fairness gain. Simulation results show that proposed user association frameworks lead to significantly better load balancing, more efficient mitigation of cell overload and more equitable distribution of users compared with the Best-SINR and Fixed offset based load equalization techniques.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"81 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":"133885476","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":"Power-Saving Scheme for PON LTE-A Converged Networks Supporting M2M Communications","authors":"D. P. Van, B. Rimal, M. Maier","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324500","url":null,"abstract":"To cope with the unprecedented growth of Machineto-Machine (M2M) services over cellular networks, this paper envisions an energy-efficient PON LTE-A converged network that combines the high capacity and reliability of PON technology with the flexibility and cost savings of LTE-A network to support M2M applications. In particular, this paper proposes a powersaving scheme that unifies the cyclic sleep mechanism defined for PON's optical network units (ONUs) and the discontinuous reception (DRX) mechanism defined for LTE's user equipments (UEs) to reduce the overall power consumption in the envisioned network. For performance evaluation, a comprehensive energy saving model and an end-to-end packet delay analysis for M2M scenarios are presented taking into account both optical backhaul and wireless front-end networks based on an M/G/1 queueing model (for backhaul) and a semi-Markov process (for frontend). Results show that the battery life of M2M devices can be significantly prolonged by extending DRX cycle, while the energy consumption of the optical backhaul network can be minimized by exploiting TDMA scheduling for ONU cyclic sleep implementation. Further, the trade-off between overall energy saving and end-to-end packet delay is studied to specify maximum achievable energy saving while not violating delay constraints.","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":"122033117","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}
Vikas Jumba, S. Parsaeefard, Mahsa Derakhshani, T. Le-Ngoc
{"title":"Energy-Efficient Robust Resource Provisioning in Virtualized Wireless Networks","authors":"Vikas Jumba, S. Parsaeefard, Mahsa Derakhshani, T. Le-Ngoc","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324447","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a robust resource allocation approach in virtualized wireless networks (VWNs) to address the uncertainty in channel state information (CSI) at the base station (BS) due to estimation error and mobility of users. In this set-up, the resources of an OFDMA-based wireless network are shared among different slices where the minimum reserved rate is considered as the quality-of-service (QoS) requirement of each slice. We formulate the robust resource allocation problem against the worst-case CSI uncertainty, aiming to maximize the overall energy efficiency (EE) of VWN in terms of a newly defined slice utility function. Uncertain CSI is modeled as the sum of its true estimated value and an error assumed to be bounded in a specific uncertainty region. The formulated problem suffers from two major issues: computational complexity and energy-efficiency degradation due to the considered error in the maximum extent. To deal with these issues, we consider a specific form of uncertainty region to solve the robust resource allocation problem via an iterative algorithm. The simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"5 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":"122110853","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":"Distributed Implementation of Collaborative Beamforming in Highly-Scattered Environments","authors":"S. Zaidi, Bouthaina Hmidet, S. Affes","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324439","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we consider a power-constrained signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)-optimal collaborative beamformer(OCB) design in highly-scattered environments. We show that its weights depend on non-local CSI (NLCSI), thereby hampering its implementation in a distributed fashion. Exploiting, the polychromatic (i.e., multi-ray) structure of scattered channels, we propose a novel distributed CB (DCB) design whose weights depends solely on local CSI (LCSI) and prove that it performs nearly as well as its NLCSI-based counterpart. Furthermore, we prove that the proposed LCSI-based DCB outperforms two other distributed-implementation benchmarks: the monochromatic (i.e., single-ray) DCB (M-DCB) whose design ignores the presence of scattering and the bichromatic (i.e., two-ray) DCB (B-DCB) which relies on an efficient polychromatic-channel approximation by two rays when the angular spread is relatively small.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"30 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":"130053664","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. Akbari, R. Movahedinia, A. Sebak, S. Zarbakhsh, N. Rojhani, V. Devabhaktuni
{"title":"A New Antenna with Dual Band-Notched Function by Shorting Pin and S-Shaped Coupling Element","authors":"M. Akbari, R. Movahedinia, A. Sebak, S. Zarbakhsh, N. Rojhani, V. Devabhaktuni","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324406","url":null,"abstract":"A simple microstrip UWB antenna with dual band- notch function is presented. The antenna consists of a square patch and a partial ground plane. For expanding the impedance bandwidth, H-shaped slot on the ground plane is etched. Also, to obtain two notched bands, S-shaped coupling element and an inverted L-shaped arm ended up a shorting pin are utilized. The antenna has a compact size of 15×22 mm2 which has been printed on an Fr4 substrate. Moreover, the proposed antenna has been successfully fabricated and measured, indicating broadband matched impedance (2.6-11.4 GHz, VSWR≤2) and dual band-notched (3.2-4 GHz and 5.1-6.1 GHz) respectively.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"117 18 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":"126407026","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 Dual-Hop Backhaul Network Architecture for 5G Ultra-Small Cells Using Millimetre-Wave","authors":"Aftab Ahmed, D. Grace","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324401","url":null,"abstract":"This paper instigates a new network architecture for future 5G backhaul networks which can be used to achieve higher throughput capacity and better Quality of Service in high data traffic scenarios. This network is predominantly based on dual-hop wireless links which introduce an intermediate relay point between backhaul transceivers. To make this network a high capacity density wireless system, the base stations are densely deployed and equipped with highly directional antennas which use millimetre wave. It is shown that the overall performance can be improved by up to 45% by reducing the bottleneck and introducing routing diversity to such a dense dual-hop backhaul network. Moreover, it is shown how the performance of the dual-hop backhaul network can be modelled using the Erlang-B traffic distribution.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"10 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":"115579466","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":"Back Radiation Suppression for Substrate Integrated H-Plane Horn Antenna","authors":"Nima Bayat-Makou, A. Kishk","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324422","url":null,"abstract":"A new multi-layer antenna structure including simple substrate integrated H-plane horn antenna with a couple of soft surfaces is introduced. The planar strip-via soft surfaces are located at top and bottom of the substrate integrated horn to stop the aperture radiated waves contributing to antenna back radiation. The new antenna structure exhibits more than 13 dB improvement in front-to-back ratio at design frequency when compared to simple substrate integrated H-plane horn antenna.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"23 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":"132661942","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}
Carlos Barjau, D. Ansorregui, B. Mouhouche, Hongsil Jeong, Hakju Lee
{"title":"Improvement of L1 Signaling Performance for DVB-T2 Using Optimized Two-Dimensional Non-Uniform Constellations","authors":"Carlos Barjau, D. Ansorregui, B. Mouhouche, Hongsil Jeong, Hakju Lee","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324462","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we focus on the potential enhancements of the DVB-T2 signaling (L1Post) by the use of newly designed Two-Dimensional Non-Uniform Constellations (2D-NUC). We Base our design on the optimization of the Bit-interleaved Coded Modulation (BICM) capacity, the designed constellations provide a potential performance improvement of 0.55 dB for the overall DVB-T2 signaling performance in high order constellations for the case of Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN). Slightly lower gains are obtained for the Rayleigh Channel. This gain can be used for reducing the required transmit power or for increasing the signaling bit rate. All carried out analyses are based on the DVB-T2 system specification simulation.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"15 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":"126636351","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":"3-Dimensional Image Expansion Method by Incorporating RPM Imaging and Full Polarimetric Data for UWB Short Range Radar","authors":"Ayumi Yamaryo, S. Kidera, T. Kirimoto","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324390","url":null,"abstract":"Ultra wideband (UWB) radar with high range resolution is promising for short-range 3-dimensional (3-D) imaging applications, such as a sensor for rescue robot in disaster scene. We have already proposed the efficient 3-D imaging methods as range point migration (RPM) method, which has a definitive advantage for SAR or time-reversal approaches, in terms of computational burden, high accuracy and high spatial resolution. However, if the aperture size is insufficient, this method cannot image the whole target structure. Conversely, useful information about the target structure can be extracted from the full polarimetric data. Therefore, this paper proposes a novel method that expands reconstructed RPM images by exploiting the full polarimetric data. This method introduces the ellipsoid-based scattering analysis and estimation, and significantly expands the original image by the RPM method by an aggregation of parts of ellipsoids. The results of numerical simulation based on 3-D finite difference time domain (FDTD) analysis verify the effectiveness of our proposed method.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"91 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":"121866732","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}