{"title":"Cooperative Group Key Generation Using IR-UWB Multipath Channels","authors":"I. Tunaru, B. Denis, Regis Perrier, B. Uguen","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324430","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324430","url":null,"abstract":"In wireless decentralized networks, nodes physically close to each other can take advantage of the shared wireless medium to generate common secrets or keys and enhance the security of communications. Previous studies already provided models, algorithms, and proofs of concept to exploit the radio physical layer and generate symmetric keys over single links. Some of these models have been adapted to cooperative scenarios involving several nodes, either to reinforce the generated pair-wise keys or to issue a common group key (i.e., shared by more than two nodes). In this study, we focus on key agreement from Impulse Radio - Ultra Wideband (IR-UWB) multipath channels according to the source model. We propose a new method to generate group keys within cooperative scenarios, while exploiting all the available physical links in a full mesh topology and reducing over-the-air traffic. The main idea consists in adjusting the IR-UWB signals usually transmitted for channel probing so that receiving nodes have access to non-observable channels corresponding to their non-adjacent links. We describe an example where the transmitted signal is optimized using a least squares minimization routine with prior information.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"33 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":"114757055","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":"Multiple Model Linearization Solution for Cellular Base Station Power Amplifiers","authors":"Francisca Adaramola, T. Kunz, H. Schwartz","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324481","url":null,"abstract":"A multiple model adaptive digital pre-distortion (DPD) scheme is proposed for use in a cellular base station Power Amplifier (PA). The PA is excited by rapidly changing wideband signals. The changes in the signals are caused by variations in power levels and bandwidths. These changing signals can cause a significant change in the dynamic characteristics of the PA. The proposed multiple model DPD scheme can track and compensate for the changing dynamic characteristics of the PA. The proposed scheme offers reduced computational complexity in comparison to old published methods. Experiments are performed on a Phoenix PA excited by two- and four- carrier Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) signals at varying power levels. The simulation results verify the efficacy of the method based on the limitations placed on the Adjacent Channel Power Ratio (ACPR) and Normalized Mean Square Error (NMSE).","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"41 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":"125033942","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":"On-Chip Integrated Antennas for 200 GHz Applications","authors":"M. Jenning, B. Klein, R. Hahnel, D. Plettemeier","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324488","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents four different on-chip antenna elements. They are two bow-tie antennas, one slotted and one fractal version, a half cloverleaf antenna and a stacked Vivaldi antenna. All antenna elements are designed for an operational frequency of 200 GHz for wireless computer board-to-board and chip-to-chip communication. The antenna elements were successfully designed and fabricated in a 130 nm SiGe semiconductor technology. After fabrication, S-parameter and radiation characteristics measurements were conducted on a wafer probe station. The results presented show good agreement with the simulated designs. The gain of the antenna elements is above 0 dBi and all elements achieve a bandwidth larger than 10 GHz.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"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":"130755915","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 Set Cover Based Efficient Solution for the Complementary Index Coding Problem","authors":"Z. Asad, M. Chaudhry","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324411","url":null,"abstract":"The Index Coding problem can be considered as one of the basic problems in information theory. In this problem a relay node needs to deliver a set of packets to a set of client over a broadcast wireless channel. Each client might posses some \"side information\" related to the transmissions by the relay node. The goal is to minimize number of transmissions from the relay node by taking advantage of the side information. The Index Coding problem has been proven to be NP-hard and NP-hard to approximate. The Complementary Index Coding problem is a complementary problem of the Index Coding problem. In the Complementary Index Coding problem the objective is to maximize number of the saved transmissions, i.e., the number of transmissions that are saved by encoding packets compared to the solution that does not perform coding. This work aims at improving the gains of the Complementary Index Coding problem by proposing a Set Cover based solution that guarantees an approximation ratio of 1/(1-(H_k|S|/n)). Moreover, we propose a scheme for transforming the Index Coding problem in to the Set Cover problem. In addition to this, we compare the proposed algorithm with the current state of the art. The experimental results show that the proposed solution out performs current state of the art both in terms of coding advantage as well as running time.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"48 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":"128071320","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":"Cramer-Rao Lower Bounds for Angular Parameters Estimates from Incoherently Distributed Signals Generated by Noncircular Sources","authors":"Sonia Ben Hassen, F. Bellili, A. Samet, S. Affes","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324433","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we derive for the first time analytical expressions for the stochastic Cramér- Rao lower bound (CRLB or CRB) of the angular parameters (central DOAs and angular spreads) estimates from incoherently distributed (ID) signals generated by noncircular sources. The new CRBs of the angular parameters are compared to those obtained from circular ID signals. The CRB of the central DOAs, however, are compared to those obtained from both circular and noncircular point sources. It will be shown that the CRB of both the central DOAs and the angular spreads obtained assuming noncircular ID sources are lower than those obtained using circular ID sources. This illustrates the potential gain that the noncircularity characteristic of the sources provides for the estimation of the angular parameters, especially in presence of different sources' distributions and for high angular spreads. Finally, the CRBs derived assuming noncircular ID signals decrease as the noncircularity rate increases. Furthermore, this decrease is more prominent at low DOA separations where the CRBs are sensitive to the noncircularity phase separation.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"115 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":"122704317","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":"Low-Power, High-Data Rate 915 MHz Transceiver with Fully Passive Wake-Up Receiver for Biomedical Implants","authors":"Mohamed Zgaren, A. Moradi, Guoxing Wang, M. Sawan","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324471","url":null,"abstract":"A 915 MHz transceiver has been developed for implantable medical devices. The transceiver offers exceptionally low power consumption while providing a high data rate using injection-locked oscillator. The transceiver utilizes Frequency- Shift-Keying (FSK) modulation at a data rate of 8 Mbit/s to provide wireless link between target implantable device and a central base-station unit operating in the North American Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM) frequency band. The circuit features a fully passive wake-up receiver (WuRx) enabling energy harvesting from Radio Frequency (RF) input. The amplitude of the FSK RF signal is controlled low for short distance transmission to further reduce the energy consumption. The transceiver, implemented in 0.13 μm CMOS process, is built on new FSK modulation scheme and based on frequency to amplitude conversion. The WuRx achieves a sensitivity of -53 dBm while the main receiver shows -78 dBm sensitivity. Thanks to the simplified hardware, the receiver dissipates only 640 μW while the transmitter consumes 1.4 mW from 1.2 V supply voltage.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"19 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":"122713158","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":"Modified Antipodal Vivaldi Antenna for Infrastructure Health Monitoring Techniques","authors":"Z. Esmati, S. Kharkovsky","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324479","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper a modified antipodal Vivaldi antenna with frequency range of 0.65 GHz - 2.6 GHz is presented to be used for Infrastructure Health Monitoring (IHM) techniques. The proposed antenna offers high gain and directive radiation patterns at operating bandwidth. The feasibility of the designed antenna for IHM is investigated by modeling a 500-mm cubic concrete block with an air gap representing a crack or a place for the location of sensors for IHM. The results show that the proposed antenna is capable to provide the detection of 5-mm air gap or to transmit microwave power to the gap with thickness up to 35 mm inside the concrete block.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"53 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":"121302969","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":"Towards Efficient Message Dissemination in Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Network","authors":"A. A. Alkheir, I. Al-Anbagi, H. Mouftah","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324521","url":null,"abstract":"This article studies the problem of message dissemination in Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc (CRAHNs) over TV white bands. By exploiting the supreme propagation characteristics of low-frequency channels, this article proposes two message dissemination protocols that use acknowledged transmissions to guarantee dissemination reliability. These two protocols rely on assistance from neighboring terminals to expedite the dissemination process. However, the first of these protocols suffers from an excessive number of collisions due to the numerous concurrent transmissions on very few channels. To overcome this, a third protocol is proposed wherein assistance is renounced. Computer simulations show that the third protocol has the best performance. It also shows that concurrent transmissions have deep impact on the performance of the first protocol.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"54 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":"127070923","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 DOA Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Randomized Gossip Method","authors":"Li Zhang, N. Xie, Hui Wang","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324438","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we consider the problem of direction of arrival (DOA) estimation achieved by a distributed way in wireless sensors networks. The goal for each node is to detect targets based on its local information and that of its neighbors through some iteration. Classic estimation methods, such as maximum likelihood (ML) algorithm, are not suitable here because there is often a requirement of a central unit to obtain the optimal solution. We propose a new distributed DOA estimation algorithms based on the randomized Gossip method, the goal of which is to realize the conventional Capon method by a distributed way. The proposed algorithm does not require any constraint on the network geometries, thereby making it suitable for distributed signal processing in large wireless sensor networks. The given simulation results illustrate the main characteristics of the proposed algorithm, including DOA resolution and mean square error (MSE) performance.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"108 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":"115671309","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}
J. Blumenstein, T. Mikulášek, A. Prokeš, T. Zemen, C. Mecklenbräuker
{"title":"Intra-Vehicular Path Loss Comparison of UWB Channel for 3-11 GHz and 55-65 GHz","authors":"J. Blumenstein, T. Mikulášek, A. Prokeš, T. Zemen, C. Mecklenbräuker","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324466","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324466","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides a comparison of a real-world intra-vehicular radio channel measurements of the ultra-wide frequency bands, namely the 3-11 GHz and the 55-65 GHz. The measurement campaign was performed utilizing a vector network analyzer (VNA) and a frequency domain method ensuring a high dynamic range of 70 dB and a frequency resolution of 10 MHz. An inverse Fourier transform is exploited for a transition of the measured data into the time domain and to obtain a channel impulse response (CIR). A delay spread and a path loss are derived and compared. Measured data is freely available online: http://www.radio.feec.vutbr.cz/GACR-13-38735S/.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"14 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":"124025403","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}