{"title":"Packet success probability derivation in a vehicular ad hoc network for a highway scenario","authors":"Ali Rakhshan, H. Pishro-Nik","doi":"10.1109/CISS.2016.7460503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISS.2016.7460503","url":null,"abstract":"This paper studies the probability of packets being successfully received by vehicles (packet success probability) for chains of vehicles on a highway by taking multi-user interference, path loss, and fading into account. Our simulation results compare two scenarios, the case in which vehicles follow Poisson distribution and the case when the distance between any two adjacent vehicles is equal. This probability plays a main role in vehicles' collision probability; therefore, this mathematical framework to obtain packet success probabilities can be employed in designing the safety applications of vehicular ad hoc networks, especially the newly proposed customized vehicular communications.","PeriodicalId":346776,"journal":{"name":"2016 Annual Conference on Information Science and Systems (CISS)","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116291740","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}
S. Amsalu, Wondimu K. Zegeye, Dereje Hailemariam, Yacob Astatke
{"title":"Design and performance evaluation of an energy efficient routing protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks","authors":"S. Amsalu, Wondimu K. Zegeye, Dereje Hailemariam, Yacob Astatke","doi":"10.1109/CISS.2016.7460475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISS.2016.7460475","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, the advancements in wireless communications and electronics have enabled the development of low-cost, low-power and multi-functional Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). As nodes in sensor networks are equipped with a limited power source, efficient utilization of power is a very important issue in order to extend the network lifetime. In this paper, a routing protocol namely GAICH (Genetic Algorithm Inspired Clustering Hierarchy) that provide efficient energy management for WSNs is proposed. This protocol makes use of Genetic Algorithm(GA) to create optimum clusters in terms of energy consumption. Using a standard radio energy dissipation model that is used for the simulation of WSNs, the performance of this algorithm is simulated and compared with an already existing LEACH routing protocol for WSNs.","PeriodicalId":346776,"journal":{"name":"2016 Annual Conference on Information Science and Systems (CISS)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124998737","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":"Divergence and Bayes error based soft decision for decentralized signal detection of correlated sensor data","authors":"Roopashree Rajanna, Lei Cao, R. Viswanathan","doi":"10.1109/CISS.2016.7460551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISS.2016.7460551","url":null,"abstract":"In decentralized cooperative sensing for cognitive radio, a few secondary users (SUs) sense the spectrum, process individual observation and then pass quantized data to the fusion center (FC), where the decision on signal present hypothesis or signal absent hypothesis is made. When the reporting channels between SUs and the FC are bandlimited and error prone, a quantization scheme was proposed recently based on divergence measures for independent observations. In this paper, we extend the design of quantizers to correlated sensor data. With the assumption that two SUs' observations are jointly distributed as bivariate Gaussian with identical marginals, we design quantizers based on both divergence measures and the Bayes error. Our simulation results demonstrate that a quantizer designed with the knowledge of known joint distributions outperform the quantizer designed with independent sensor data assumption. Thus, it is important to account for correlation in the quantizer design in distributed cooperative sensing.","PeriodicalId":346776,"journal":{"name":"2016 Annual Conference on Information Science and Systems (CISS)","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125117441","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":"Signal processing of time domain load signals of CNC lathe based on improved Neighbor Block","authors":"Z. Li, Fei Chen, Jialong He, M. Zhu, Binbin Xu","doi":"10.1109/CISS.2016.7460469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISS.2016.7460469","url":null,"abstract":"In order to achieve the time domain load signals of CNC lathe during the cutting process, a new signal processing method based on improved Neighbor Block was proposed according to the character of noise in this paper. First, statistical variance smoothing method was utilized to remove the singular points. Then, denoising method of Neighbor Block was chosen. Finally, feasibility of wavelet basis was tested by analyzing the variation rule of dimensions, so the choice of the wavelet basis can be estimated correctly. Meanwhile, simulated signals test of the Doppler and time domain load signal of CNC lathe under one typical condition was analyzed to illustrate the validity of this method. The experimental results show that this method can avoid the Gibbs phenomena effectively and solve the difficulty in choosing the wavelet basis.","PeriodicalId":346776,"journal":{"name":"2016 Annual Conference on Information Science and Systems (CISS)","volume":"151 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127286364","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 probability neural network-Jensen-Shannon divergence for a fingerprint based localization","authors":"O. Abdullah, I. Abdel-Qader, B. Bazuin","doi":"10.1109/CISS.2016.7460516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISS.2016.7460516","url":null,"abstract":"For decades, humans have been keen on creating smart spaces where advanced technology is utilized to provide enhanced services. Receiving directions and/or being recognized within indoor spaces is one feature of smart spaces that is currently heavily researched. Indoor positioning systems (IPS) can be used to provide a wide range of user navigation and directions services, particularly in abnormal conditions such as needing emergency healthcare services and being in unfamiliar complex buildings where some may become disoriented or lost. IPS also can be a friendly tool for people with vision impairment to allow for better livable communities for them. Other applications for IPS fall under tracking applications which may include activity recognition for security purposes and observation for the elderly or infirmed individuals. An indoor positioning system can be a hybrid system that uses multiple technologies such as wireless LAN, vision via cameras, motion sensors, or lasers to name few. In this paper we propose a technique for IPS using WiFi. The technique is based on a probabilistic neural network (PNN) scheme in which we incorporate the Jensen-Shannon divergence method. To validate our proposed method, we compare our results with the nearest neighbor method. Results indicate that our integrated system outperforms this method in terms of nearest neighbor estimation. Our results show that this method has the ability to achieve less than 1m accuracy in an academic building.","PeriodicalId":346776,"journal":{"name":"2016 Annual Conference on Information Science and Systems (CISS)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132735501","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}
Mengyuan Zhang, Lei Yang, Xiaowen Gong, Junshan Zhang
{"title":"Impact of network effect and congestion effect on price competition among wireless service providers","authors":"Mengyuan Zhang, Lei Yang, Xiaowen Gong, Junshan Zhang","doi":"10.1109/CISS.2016.7460557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISS.2016.7460557","url":null,"abstract":"The rapidly growing popularity of online social services has greatly spurred mobile users' online social interactions, which in turn has boosted their demand for data usage. However, wireless service providers' revenue growth is constrained by the capacity of the physical network infrastructure, and is further challenged by the price competition among different wireless providers. To fully understand the potential benefit brought by social services, we study mobile users' data usage behavior subject to social network effect in the social domain and congestion effect in the physical wireless domain, based on which we explore wireless providers' pricing strategies under competition. In particular, we cast the interactions between mobile users and wireless providers as a two-stage Stackelberg game: In Stage I, each provider decides its pricing strategy to maximize its revenue in competition with other providers' pricing strategies; In Stage II, given the providers' pricing strategies, users choose data usage subject to both social network effect and congestion effects. We analyze the two-stage game using backward induction. For Stage II, we establish the existence and uniqueness of a link demand equilibrium (LDE) under certain conditions. For Stage II, we establish the existence of a mixed strategy pricing equilibrium (PE), and further develop a recursive back-tracking algorithm to find the PE. Our results provide insight on the impact of wireless providers' competition on their revenues.","PeriodicalId":346776,"journal":{"name":"2016 Annual Conference on Information Science and Systems (CISS)","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131804628","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":"Algorithmic advances in anonymous communication over networks","authors":"G. Fanti, P. Viswanath","doi":"10.1109/CISS.2016.7460490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISS.2016.7460490","url":null,"abstract":"Over the years, researchers have thought extensively about how to communicate anonymously over a network. In this position paper, we first provide an overview of the current research landscape-including a discussion of common communication and anonymity models-and examples of prominent work in this space. In the second half of the paper, we present our thoughts on future directions of interest in this area. In short, we notice an increasing amount of work in the anonymity literature that tackles nearly omnipotent adversaries, which presumably represent the NSA or a similarly powerful surveillance agency. Such strong adversarial models can only be defeated through heavy-handed techniques that may be difficult to scale in practice. We therefore present two guidelines that have guided our own algorithmic problem formulation in this space. These guidelines suggest alternative research directions that (1) exploit surveillance agencies' weaknesses at the physical layer, and (2) consider the many weaker, but still relevant, adversaries who contribute to global censorship and surveillance.","PeriodicalId":346776,"journal":{"name":"2016 Annual Conference on Information Science and Systems (CISS)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133715613","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":"Non-linear satellite channel equalization based on a low complexity Echo State Network","authors":"M. Bauduin, S. Massar, F. Horlin","doi":"10.1109/CISS.2016.7460484","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISS.2016.7460484","url":null,"abstract":"Satellite communications systems designers are continuously struggling to improve the link capacity. A critical challenge comes from the limited power available aboard the satellite. To ensure a sufficient signal-to-noise power ratio (SNR) at the terrestrial receiving side, the amplifier aboard the satellite is usually operated close to the amplifier saturation point which adds non-linear distortions to the communication channel. Several algorithms have been proposed to equalize the non-linear satellite channel. The Echo State Network (ESN) algorithm, coming from the field of artificial neural networks, has been shown to perform well in this task: it can achieve a similar bit error rate (BER) as the state-of-the-art Volterra equalizer. In the present paper we show that with an appropriate design, the complexity of the ESN can be significantly lower than that of the Volterra equalizer, while conserving the low BER.","PeriodicalId":346776,"journal":{"name":"2016 Annual Conference on Information Science and Systems (CISS)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125219926","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":"Performance analysis of eigenportfolios for AR(1) process","authors":"Onur Yilmaz, A. Akansu","doi":"10.1109/CISS.2016.7460552","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISS.2016.7460552","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we analyze eigenportfolio returns for discrete AR(1) process. We derive closed-form expressions for Sharpe ratio and market exposure of eigenportfolios. We calculate and compare their performance for various model parameters. We validate AR(1) based covariance approximation for the market data of a basket with five stocks.","PeriodicalId":346776,"journal":{"name":"2016 Annual Conference on Information Science and Systems (CISS)","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127190817","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":"Tracking mobile users via standard routing engines","authors":"M. Andrews, Lisa Zhang","doi":"10.1109/CISS.2016.7460511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISS.2016.7460511","url":null,"abstract":"We consider the problem of estimating the route of a mobile user based on the corresponding cellular trace. We are given the sequence of cell sites to which the user's mobile device connects, and we wish to find the most plausible route that corresponds to the sequence. We present an algorithm called RecursiveCellRoute that makes repeated calls to a standard third-party routing engine. At each stage of the algorithm we examine whether the current route is sufficiently close to all the cell sites in the input sequence. If that is not the case then we use a far away cell as an intermediate routing point and make recursive calls to the routing engine. We compare this approach against the Cell* algorithm of Leontiadis et al. Cell* works by making direct calls to the A* algorithm in which the length of a street is adjusted based on the distance to the input cell sequence.","PeriodicalId":346776,"journal":{"name":"2016 Annual Conference on Information Science and Systems (CISS)","volume":"156 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122456517","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}