{"title":"A study on communication aspects of two-dimensional large-scale wireless sensor networks using percolation principles","authors":"D. Penkin, A. Yarovoy, G. Janssen","doi":"10.1109/SCVT.2010.5720460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCVT.2010.5720460","url":null,"abstract":"A study on primary percolation processes taking place in a two-dimensional large-scale lattice (N×N), which represents a flat wireless sensor nano-network, has been carried out based on numerical simulations using the Monte Carlo method. The communication aspects of this nano-network, such as an average number of hops of the channel which may emerge between nodes placed on the opposite network borders, the channel integrated bit-error-probability as well as a common time of signal transfer through this channel have been investigated as well. Asymptotic dependencies of these parameters for very large network dimensions (N → ∞) have been established and determined.","PeriodicalId":344975,"journal":{"name":"2010 17th IEEE Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux (SCVT2010)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127526371","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 flexible ASIP decoder for combined binary and non-binary LDPC codes","authors":"F. Naessens, A. Bourdoux, A. Dejonghe","doi":"10.1109/SCVT.2010.5720462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCVT.2010.5720462","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the implementation of a flexible combined binary and non-binary LDPC decoder. The ASIP architecture can be configured allowing re-use between both modes. Key in the architecture is parallelization, which is exploited in the SIMD engine. Binary LDPC codes intrinsically enables parallelization through layered decoding while in the non-binary case different trade-offs can be made. The implementation choice was made base on minimal memory requirement and computational effort. For a combination of supporting binary LDPC present within WLAN and WiMAX standard with non-binary GF(8) LDPC codes, a total area of 5.4 sqmm in commercial 65nm technology would be required. This size can be reduced towards 3.4 sqmm if only half of the non-binary decoding throughput is required.","PeriodicalId":344975,"journal":{"name":"2010 17th IEEE Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux (SCVT2010)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132603769","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}
Maria Luisa Ruiz de Arbulo Gubia, S. Gillijns, M. Engels
{"title":"Minimization of the effect of wireless communication on the distance control between vehicles","authors":"Maria Luisa Ruiz de Arbulo Gubia, S. Gillijns, M. Engels","doi":"10.1109/SCVT.2010.5720466","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCVT.2010.5720466","url":null,"abstract":"Previous work demonstrated that adding a wireless link to a distance control between vehicles has effect on its performance. This paper presents an algorithm that minimizes the effect of the transmission delay and the packet losses of said wireless link. The extrapolation algorithm is implemented by a block added just after the link, so that it is transparent to the control system and it does not reduce the efficiency of the link. The results demonstrate that choosing an appropriate extrapolation order makes the performance equal to the case in which the communication is hardwired.","PeriodicalId":344975,"journal":{"name":"2010 17th IEEE Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux (SCVT2010)","volume":"303 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123233784","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":"Impact of FTTN architecture on access node energy efficiency","authors":"K. Hooghe, M. Guenach","doi":"10.1109/SCVT.2010.5720458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCVT.2010.5720458","url":null,"abstract":"Although a strong growth in fiber based access technology is projected, still over half of of the fixed broadband users will use a form of copper based access technology such as digital subscriber line (DSL) in the coming years. This growth is further asserted by the latest breakthrough boosting the capacity of copper access such as Vectoring and Phantom mode [2]. While most of the state of the art power efficiency improvement strategies for communication systems focuses on the optimization of one specific building block at a time, we take another approach based on the deployment practices and how different access network architectures can improve the energy consumption. To achieve substantial energy savings, we look at the complete broadband access network and its supporting functions. Not only the access network equipment such as the DSL Access Multiplexer (DSLAM) is considered but also the supporting functions which are required to make sure that the equipment can operate. It will be shown in this paper that up to 50 % of the energy consumption in the distributed deployment can be saved compared to the centralized architecture.","PeriodicalId":344975,"journal":{"name":"2010 17th IEEE Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux (SCVT2010)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125063519","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":"Ultra lightweight adaptation processes for scheduling servers in push-based systems","authors":"C. Liaskos, G. Papadimitriou","doi":"10.1109/SCVT.2010.5720465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCVT.2010.5720465","url":null,"abstract":"Waiting time-optimal scheduling of items for broadcasting in wireless environments requires knowledge of their corresponding access probabilities. Feedback mechanisms have been proposed, according to which the clients notify the server of their needs directly or indirectly. This feedback is then processed at the server, producing the items' access probability distribution function estimate. Based on the principle of maximum uncertainty, a novel, extremely lightweight adaptation scheme algorithm is proposed. Requiring trivial input, this algorithm is shown to estimate almost perfectly the real probability distribution, while alleviating synchronization issues of related approaches and minimizing the processing needs at the server side.","PeriodicalId":344975,"journal":{"name":"2010 17th IEEE Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux (SCVT2010)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114265870","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":"Impact of the slottime parameter value on the MAC performances in IEEE 802.11 wireless systems using radio-over-fiber technology","authors":"Sébastien Deronne, V. Moeyaert, S. Bette","doi":"10.1109/SCVT.2010.5720469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCVT.2010.5720469","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the performance enhancement of IEEE 802.11 used in a radio-over-fiber architecture. It is shown that data throughput can be improved by modifying the ACK timeout value and the slottime parameter value defined in IEEE 802.11. In this study, both UDP and TCP packet transmission were taken into account.","PeriodicalId":344975,"journal":{"name":"2010 17th IEEE Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux (SCVT2010)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114278228","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":"FIA criteria estimation for adaptive array antennas in ad hoc networks","authors":"A. Solheid, G. Schwanen, L. Schumacher","doi":"10.1109/SCVT.2010.5720470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCVT.2010.5720470","url":null,"abstract":"Application of adaptive array antenna (AAA) technology in ad hoc networks still causes a lot of discussion in the network community. Even if AAA is seen as a solution for interference avoidance, wrong implementation of AAA in ad hoc networks can lead to a general deterioration of network performance. Forward interference avoidance (FIA) concept has been proposed as one solution to this problem. The FIA concept allows to foresee, before the start of transmission, if a communication, intended by a node in an ad hoc network, will be successful and if this node could interfere with other communications. It does so by evaluating traffic demands by using two threshold values. In this paper, we explain how to estimate the two threshold values as they are vital to its correct functioning. We show how the values may be chosen depending on network requirements by using a cumulative distribution function CDF and proof its correctness by optimizing with linear programming.","PeriodicalId":344975,"journal":{"name":"2010 17th IEEE Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux (SCVT2010)","volume":"157 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114629755","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 channel coding for Wireless Sensor Networks","authors":"Nashat Abughalieh, K. Steenhaut, A. Nowé","doi":"10.1109/SCVT.2010.5720472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCVT.2010.5720472","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) consist of a set of small devices with limited energy resources, reduced processing capabilities and a radio frequency communication unit with limited transmission power. Transmission over the wireless channels is prone to noise and interference which causes the reception of erroneous packets at the receiving node. Automatic Repeat Request (ARQ) techniques are usually used in WSNs to tackle erroneous transmission, but they become inefficient (with respect to energy and delay) in harsh environments. To reduce the number of retransmission for lossy channels, Error Correcting Codes (ECC) are commonly used. The use of ECC comes with increased processor power and delay at the sensor nodes for encoding and decoding the packets. In this work we present an ECC technique for sensor networks based on Turbo Codes. A low complexity turbo encoder is deployed at the source nodes, while the iterative decoding process is shifted to the Base Station. The forwarding nodes contribute by executing error monitoring and correcting. This approach enhances the reliability of the network communications, while being energy- and delay efficient","PeriodicalId":344975,"journal":{"name":"2010 17th IEEE Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux (SCVT2010)","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133312880","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}
Antonio de la Piedra, A. Touhafi, Gianluca Cornetta
{"title":"An IEEE 802.15.4 baseband SoC for tracking applications in the medical environment based on Actel Cortex-M1 soft-core","authors":"Antonio de la Piedra, A. Touhafi, Gianluca Cornetta","doi":"10.1109/SCVT.2010.5720467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCVT.2010.5720467","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present the design of a baseband System-On-Chip for tracking applications in the medical environment based on the IEEE 802.15.4 standard which can be used to track patient location in hospitals. It utilizes an ARM Cortex-M1 soft-core, 16 kb of SRAM and a bus architecture based on the AHB-Lite specification. The IEEE 802.15.4 MAC primitives are implemented in a Flash-ROM of 32 kb. The hardware verification was done in an Actel M1AFS1500 130 nm LVCMOS FPGA. The total logic usage of the FPGA was 81 % (31142 core cells). The power consumption of the IEEE 802.15.4 implementation was 25.438 mW at 1.5V power supply and 8 MHz clock rate.","PeriodicalId":344975,"journal":{"name":"2010 17th IEEE Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux (SCVT2010)","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114274722","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":"Analog and flexible digital suppression of narrow-band interference in UWB","authors":"M. Stassen","doi":"10.1109/SCVT.2010.5720454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCVT.2010.5720454","url":null,"abstract":"The large bandwidth and low power level of UWB make it vulnerable to interference. Particulary in a cell phone the interference levels are high. These high interference levels require strong interference suppression. In this paper we propose a new approach for interference suppression in UWB. This approach combines analog suppression with flexible digital suppression in a UWB receiver. To suppress strong interference, analog and digital band reject filtering is combined with tone nulling. For weak interference only tone nulling is applied. We use system simulations to maximize the interference robustness of a UWB receiver for practically relevant interference models, while minimizing the use of the band reject filters. We show that our interference suppression scheme improves the interference tolerance by at least 35 dB.","PeriodicalId":344975,"journal":{"name":"2010 17th IEEE Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux (SCVT2010)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127755406","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}