{"title":"On noisy source vector quantization via a subspace constrained mean shift algorithm","authors":"Y. A. Ghassabeh, T. Linder, G. Takahara","doi":"10.1109/QBSC.2012.6221361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/QBSC.2012.6221361","url":null,"abstract":"The subspace constrained mean shift (SCMS) algorithm is an iterative method for finding an underlying manifold associated with an intrinsically low dimensional data set embedded in a high dimensional space. We investigate the application of the SCMS algorithm to the problem of noisy source vector quantization where the clean source needs to be estimated from its noisy observation before quantizing with an optimal vector quantizer. We demonstrate that an SCMS-based preprocessing step can be effective for sources that have intrinsically low dimensionality in situations where clean source samples are unavailable and the system design relies only on noisy source samples for training.","PeriodicalId":343966,"journal":{"name":"2012 26th Biennial Symposium on Communications (QBSC)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132668592","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":"Wireless multiple-input single-output optical links with coherent detection","authors":"Mingbo Niu, Julian Cheng, J. Holzman","doi":"10.1109/QBSC.2012.6221339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/QBSC.2012.6221339","url":null,"abstract":"Coherent wireless optical communications (WOC) is a viable alternative to irradiance modulation with direct detection for atmospheric channels impacted by turbulence. Effective techniques such as channel coding and diversity can be introduced to mitigate the turbulence effects, but transmit diversity for coherent WOC has not been reported due to the phase noise imposed on the electric fields of multiple optical carriers. To understand this problem and facilitate multiple-input single-output (MISO) for coherent WOC, we propose a new MISO optical structure in this paper. Based on the proposed structure, several cases are studied by adopting this MISO technique. Error rates and outage probability are presented in closed-forms with equal gain combining. Significant performance improvement is seen by comparing MISO systems with the standard single-input single-output coherent WOC systems.","PeriodicalId":343966,"journal":{"name":"2012 26th Biennial Symposium on Communications (QBSC)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125807759","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":"Scheduling vs. pseudo-scheduling models in IEEE 802.16j wireless relay networks","authors":"B. Jaumard, T. Murillo, S. Sebbah","doi":"10.1109/QBSC.2012.6221360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/QBSC.2012.6221360","url":null,"abstract":"Given the relatively low costs associated with its deployment and its capacity to deliver last mile wireless broadband access, WiMAX and LTE are the current technologies of choice to effectively meet the increasing demand for high bandwidth services and applications. In the literature, several pseudo scheduling algorithms, which are very often time-independent, have been proposed to optimize the scheduling horizon without taking care of the sequencing of packets within the scheduling period. In this paper, we develop an optimization model having in mind to perform \"true\" scheduling, not only optimizing the scheduling horizon but taking into account the allocation of resources over a given time window. We propose a two-step solution scheme. The first step relies on a model, which chooses among a set of possible configurations (a set of transmitting links over a predetermined period of time slots) with end-to-end transmissions. The second step consists in a time ordering of those configurations, in order to complete the scheduling process. In our experiments, we compare our solution scheme with one of those so-called \"scheduling\" in order to investigate how the throughput varies depending on whether we use pseudo=scheduling vs. \"true\" scheduling. The results show how explicitly considering nodal buffers can make a meaningful difference on the forms of scheduling, depending on the assumptions on the buffer sizes.","PeriodicalId":343966,"journal":{"name":"2012 26th Biennial Symposium on Communications (QBSC)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133910222","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":"Fairness in delay-aware cross layer data transmission scheme for wireless sensor networks","authors":"I. Al-Anbagi, M. Erol-Kantarci, H. Mouftah","doi":"10.1109/QBSC.2012.6221370","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/QBSC.2012.6221370","url":null,"abstract":"Prioritization of the data collected by the Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) can provide promising performance enhancements for applications that monitor and control the critical systems. Particularly, in smart grid, defense and e-health applications, delivering high priority data with low latency is important. Previous works have focused on various cross layer approaches for providing Quality of Service (QoS) in WSNs. However, in the ad hoc nature of WSNs it is highly challenging to become aware of selfish nodes that may exploit those QoS-aware approaches. In our previous work, we have proposed a delay-aware cross layer technique for WSNs. In this paper, we propose a cross layer scheme that is both fairness-aware and delay-aware. Our fairness in delay-aware cross layer data transmission scheme (FDRX) is based on delay-estimation and data prioritization steps that are performed before the data transmission by the application layer. If the estimated delay is higher than the acceptable latency range for the high priority data, MAC layer parameters respond to the delay requirements of the application and vary channel access mechanism in a fair manner. Our results show that the proposed FDRX scheme is able to reduce end-to-end delay for data demanding timely delivery while the latency of the other packets is slightly impacted. Furthermore, our approach is able to maintain acceptable performance in terms packet delivery and energy consumption.","PeriodicalId":343966,"journal":{"name":"2012 26th Biennial Symposium on Communications (QBSC)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126181921","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":"Multiaccess interference whitening for TH-BPSK IR-UWB systems","authors":"H. Yazdani, A. M. Rabiei, N. Beaulieu","doi":"10.1109/QBSC.2012.6221362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/QBSC.2012.6221362","url":null,"abstract":"Interference mitigation using an interference-plus-noise whitening matched filter (WMF) for impulse radio ultrawide bandwidth (IR-UWB) systems in additive white Gaussian noise channels is considered. It is observed that a WMF receiver can improve the error probability performance of IR-UWB systems without adding undue complexity burden to the receiver structure. The signal-to-interference-plus noise ratio (SINR) of the WMF receiver is shown to be superior to that of the conventional matched filter receiver for all the examined values of the signal-to-noise ratio. The SINR gain of the WMF over the CMF is observed to approach 2 dB for large signal-to-noise ratio values.","PeriodicalId":343966,"journal":{"name":"2012 26th Biennial Symposium on Communications (QBSC)","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131694899","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":"GPS-aided Doppler spread estimation in a mobile system","authors":"Min Zheng, Kemal Ozdemir","doi":"10.1109/QBSC.2012.6221377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/QBSC.2012.6221377","url":null,"abstract":"Most current Doppler spread (DS) estimators are based on the wireless channel auto-correlation function. In these methods, the DS estimation variance is high, especially due to channel estimation errors. Furthermore, in a time-varying velocity scenario, DS varies over time, which adds extra complexity to the estimation process. In this study, we propose a GPS-aided DS estimation scheme that incorporates accurate velocity information to reduce estimation variance in a mobile system. The Cramer-Rao lower bound method and the maximum likelihood estimation method are used in the proposed estimators. Through simulations, we show that the DS variance is significantly reduced with the proposed estimators.","PeriodicalId":343966,"journal":{"name":"2012 26th Biennial Symposium on Communications (QBSC)","volume":"28 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133925466","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 cognitive nodes in wireless sensor networks","authors":"F. Aalamifar, P. A. Khoozani, M. Ibnkahla","doi":"10.1109/QBSC.2012.6221381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/QBSC.2012.6221381","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, cognitive wireless sensor networks (CWSN) have been proposed to enhance the overall functionality of WSNs based on application needs. Cognition refers to the process of making decisions and acting based on the network conditions in order to achieve end-to-end goals of the network. In the previously proposed architecture, a new node - Cognitive Node (CN)-, which is responsible for managing the network, was introduced to the network. Since WSNs normally consist of a huge number of Sensor Nodes (SNs), there is a high demand to have more than one CN. In this paper, challenges of adding multiple CNs are investigated and a new architecture is proposed. Then, the proposed architecture is evaluated by implementing it with CC2430 boards (Texas Instrument boards). The results of our experiments showed that the proposed architecture can function more efficiently by increasing the number of SNs in each subclass.","PeriodicalId":343966,"journal":{"name":"2012 26th Biennial Symposium on Communications (QBSC)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114945240","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":"Space division multiplexing access aided cognitive radio networks","authors":"M. Hefnawi","doi":"10.1109/QBSC.2012.6221341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/QBSC.2012.6221341","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the performance of space division multiple access (SDMA) schemes in cognitive radio systems (CR) with multiple primary users (PUs) and secondary users (SUs) sharing the same spectrum. By adding more constraints to the conventional SDMA schemes and using the optimization of the Lagrange multipliers we developed an iterative weights calculating method to determine the new cognitive beamforming (BF) vectors for the secondary network. The beamformer is designed to maximize the signal-to-interference plus noise ratio (SINR) at the secondary base station, defined as the ratio of the desired cognitive signal power to the total interference power from all other secondary and primary users, while controlling the interference levels to the PUs. Using simulation, the performance of the conventional SDMA schemes is compared to the constrained one. It is noted that at low SNR the symbol error rate (SER) and the system capacity obtained for the CR system are very close to the ones obtained by the traditional schemes. It is also noted that as we increase the SNR of the CR, the gap between the system capacity of the constrained SDMA scheme and that of the traditional one becomes significant.","PeriodicalId":343966,"journal":{"name":"2012 26th Biennial Symposium on Communications (QBSC)","volume":"162 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124766928","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}
T. Sheltami, Ashraf S. Hasan Mahmoud, Khalid Alafari, E. Shakshuki
{"title":"Self-organizing sensor networks: Coverage problem","authors":"T. Sheltami, Ashraf S. Hasan Mahmoud, Khalid Alafari, E. Shakshuki","doi":"10.1109/QBSC.2012.6221358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/QBSC.2012.6221358","url":null,"abstract":"The problem of coverage in sensor network can be faced in different fields, each having its own special meaning, terminologies and objectives. However, the ultimate goal of solving a `coverage problem' is to blanket a specific `region' with specific `observers'. The region can be planar or volumetric, and the observers can be of limited capabilities. A wireless sensor network is said to provide full coverage in a region if every point in the region is within the monitoring range of some sensors. The main concepts of full coverage will be discussed in this paper.","PeriodicalId":343966,"journal":{"name":"2012 26th Biennial Symposium on Communications (QBSC)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122335430","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 skipped-hop transmission protocol using cooperative communication","authors":"Tran Trung Duy, H. Kong","doi":"10.1109/QBSC.2012.6221346","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/QBSC.2012.6221346","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a novel cooperative multi-hop transmission protocol (NCMT). In the proposed protocol, cooperative communication is used to decrease the end-to-end outage probability and reduce the number of transmissions due to the skipped hops. The performances are evaluated via theoretical analyses and Monte Carlo simulations.","PeriodicalId":343966,"journal":{"name":"2012 26th Biennial Symposium on Communications (QBSC)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125746259","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}