{"title":"LBT Switching Procedures for New Radio-Based Access to Unlicensed Spectrum","authors":"S. Lagén, L. Giupponi, Natale Patriciello","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOMW.2018.8644176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOMW.2018.8644176","url":null,"abstract":"Two channel access procedures are being considered for New Radio-based access to unlicensed spectrum (NR-U) in millimeter-wave (mmWave) bands: omnidirectional Listen-Before-Talk (omniLBT) and directional LBT (dirLBT), which differ on the type of physical carrier sense. Under beam-based transmissions, omniLBT is overprotective and reduces spatial reuse due to exposed node situations, while dirLBT enables spatial reuse, but may create hidden node problems. To address the omniLBT-dirLBT trade-off, this paper proposes LBT switching procedures to dynamically adapt the type of physical carrier sense for LBT in NR-U devices. Switching from dirLBT to omniLBT can be implemented by exploiting already available control messages in NR. Differently, to switch from omniLBT to dirLBT, no information in NR specifications is still available at the time of writing. We define new procedures to measure the overprotection level of spatial reuse provided by omniLBT, and send the switching indication accordingly. Results demonstrate the effectiveness of LBT switching, which enables an independent and dynamic adaptation according to the density and activity of neighboring nodes.","PeriodicalId":348924,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115103014","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}
Fida'a Al-Quran, A. Alma'aitah, M. Mowafi, E. Taqieddin
{"title":"Energy-Efficient and QoS-Aware Multi-Path Geographic Routing Protocol for WMSN","authors":"Fida'a Al-Quran, A. Alma'aitah, M. Mowafi, E. Taqieddin","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOMW.2018.8644166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOMW.2018.8644166","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless multimedia sensor networks (WMSN) are used in various applications such as surveillance, health care, and environment monitoring. There is a need to design energy-efficient routing protocol capable of supporting the QoS requirements of multimedia traffic. In this work, we study the Adaptive Greedy-compass Energy-aware Multipath routing protocol and consider its shortcomings when applied for multimedia data. We then present three enhancements to the original protocol. First, the routing mechanism is changed to extend a wider angle scope for path generation. Second, we add the angle of view and distance towards the sink as metrics in the cost function of the original protocol. Finally, the protocol is modified to support different traffic types with different QoS requirements. Simulation results show that the enhanced protocol achieves a higher number of generated paths and an improvement in the overall network lifetime. These two improvements are necessary for dependable delivery of multimedia traffic.","PeriodicalId":348924,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116899637","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":"Effect of Frequency Offset on Cooperative Jamming Cancellation in Physical Layer Security","authors":"Wenbo Guo, Hongzhi Zhao, Wanzhi Ma, Chenxing Li, Zeyan Lu, Youxi Tang","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOMW.2018.8644513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOMW.2018.8644513","url":null,"abstract":"In the presence of some eavesdroppers, cooperative jamming cancellation (CJC) plays a significant role in physical layer security for wireless communications. The assumption that the cooperative jamming is cancelled ideally with perfect frequency and timing synchronization is commonly used in the past literatures. Due to the instability of crystal oscillators and the relative motion between the cooperative node and the receiving node, residual frequency offset always exists between these two nodes, resulting in performance degradation during CJC. In this paper, a scenario in which all nodes equipped with single antenna is considered. To explicitly analyze the effect of frequency offset on CJC, we model frequency offset as an inter-frequency interference (IFI) in the frequency domain, and evaluate the CJC performance by jamming cancellation ratio (JCR), which is derived as the closed-form expression. Theoretical and simulation results show that, for the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel, when the ideal received jamming-to-noise ratio (JNR) is 60dB, the jamming bandwidth is 10MHz, and the sampling period of analog-digital converter (ADC) is 100ns, the maximum tolerable frequency offsets that incur 0.1dB, 1dB, and 3dB JCR degradation are 0.82Hz, 2.74Hz, and 5.37Hz, respectively.","PeriodicalId":348924,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117213341","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 Platoon Size on the Performance of TDMA-Based MAC Protocols","authors":"Aqsa Aslam, L. Almeida, Frederico Santos","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOMW.2018.8644433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOMW.2018.8644433","url":null,"abstract":"Vehicular networks are a core component in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) enabling communication among vehicles for collaborative applications. One example of such an application that may bring benefits in reducing travel time, fuel consumption and improving safety is platooning. This application coordinates a group of vehicles that travel together, doing automatic control of inter-distances and speeds [1]. A critical part of this application is the vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication highlighting the importance of improving the channel quality. Existing ITS standards, namely WAVE (USA) and ITS-G5 (Europe), use IEEE 802.11p DSRC (Dedicated Short-Range Communication) [2] that relies on CSMA/CA distributed access arbitration. Despite the Collision Avoidance attribute collisions can still occur and the channel quality can degrade significantly in dense traffic environments.","PeriodicalId":348924,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124907595","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}
Abrar Ahmed, S. Nawaz, Sardar Muhammad Gulfam, Shurjeel Wyne, M. Patwary, H. Pervaiz
{"title":"Angular Spread Quantification of Multi-Antenna Vehicular Radio Communication Channels","authors":"Abrar Ahmed, S. Nawaz, Sardar Muhammad Gulfam, Shurjeel Wyne, M. Patwary, H. Pervaiz","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOMW.2018.8644469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOMW.2018.8644469","url":null,"abstract":"The deployment of multi-antenna systems with software defined reconfigurable beam patterns can potentially benefit vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications by increasing the channel coherence time. This in turn necessitates an accurate characterization and modeling of the angular statistics of vehicular radio propagation environments. This work proposes an improved three-dimensional (3-D) spatial description of vehicular propagation environments and derives the closed-form analytical expressions for the joint and marginal statistics of the 3-D angle-of-arrival (AoA) and angle-of-departure (AoD). Then, based on the proposed geometric channel model, the AoA and AoD angular spreads are quantified in terms of the joint angular spread, elevational constriction, and the azimuthal constriction. These considered quantifiers are shown to be of high significance in quantification of angular spread in V2V radio propagation environments. The impact of various physical parameters on the angular spread is also investigated. These parameters include the link-distance, scattering volume, and the number of scatterers along the azimuth and elevation axes. The derived analytical expressions are also validated by simulations.","PeriodicalId":348924,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"113 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126031231","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}
Marjan Moradi, Kanchana Thilakarathna, Ming Ding, Mahbub Hassan
{"title":"Impact of Device Population on Beam Alignment Performance of 802.11ad","authors":"Marjan Moradi, Kanchana Thilakarathna, Ming Ding, Mahbub Hassan","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOMW.2018.8644419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOMW.2018.8644419","url":null,"abstract":"Millimeter Wave (MmWave) based communication standards including IEEE 802.11ad WiFi show great promise in supporting next generation service demands such as real-time streaming of ultra-high-definition video. However, MmWave signals suffers from high path loss and often required to have unobstructed line-of-sight. Narrow beamwidth antenna arrays along with adaptive beamforming is currently deployed to mitigate those issues. Nevertheless, the impact of device population on beam alignment has not yet been well studied in the literature. In this paper, we quantify the loss of antenna gain when there are multiple devices in the communication range completing for channel access to perform beamforming. We further study the link outage probability for devices with angular displacement similar to change in orientation of hand-held or head-worn devices in home wireless networks. The simulation results reveal that loss of antenna gain can be as high as 7dB and link outage probability increases up to 90% for 16 antenna sectors and 10 competing devices.","PeriodicalId":348924,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126970234","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}
Zhen Sun, Ruoyang Qi, Zaisheng Lin, L. Yin, Guilu Long, Jianhua Lu
{"title":"Design and Implementation of a Practical Quantum Secure Direct Communication System","authors":"Zhen Sun, Ruoyang Qi, Zaisheng Lin, L. Yin, Guilu Long, Jianhua Lu","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOMW.2018.8644424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOMW.2018.8644424","url":null,"abstract":"The extensive studies on the quantum communication, which provides a novel means of secure communication, have been carried out in last decades. Among the various types of quantum communication, quantum secure direct communication (QSDC) can securely transmit message directly through a quantum channel. This paper reports a practical scheme of QSDC without quantum memory, taking advantage of the wiretap channel theory and classical coding theory. The proposed approach solves one of the biggest obstacle of practical applications of QSDC, the quantum memory, which is indispensable in original QSDC protocols. The design and detailed scheme for implementation of the proposed protocol are given.","PeriodicalId":348924,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116103706","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}
Zhipeng Lin, Jingya Li, Yanli Zheng, N. V. Irukulapati, Hai Wang, H. Sahlin
{"title":"SS/PBCH Block Design in 5G New Radio (NR)","authors":"Zhipeng Lin, Jingya Li, Yanli Zheng, N. V. Irukulapati, Hai Wang, H. Sahlin","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOMW.2018.8644466","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOMW.2018.8644466","url":null,"abstract":"5G New Radio (NR) is a new wireless access technology being developed by the 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) to meet the diverse performance requirements desired by various use cases. In NR, the combination of synchronization signals (SS) and physical broadcast channel (PBCH) including its demodulation reference signal (DMRS) is referred to as SS/PBCH block (SSB). For a standalone NR system deployed independently from long-term evolution (LTE), SSB is essential for a device to carry out cell search and acquire system information to establish an initial connection, initiate potential handover, or perform beam management. This paper gives an overview of the SSB design in NR and explains in detail the reasons why these concepts were adopted in the standard. Moreover, this paper analyzes different channel estimation methods for PBCH demodulation. Our link level simulation results show that a low PBCH block error rate can be achieved with the joint SS and DMRS based channel estimation for PBCH in NR.","PeriodicalId":348924,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122932376","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":"Comparison of OFDM and Single-Carrier Transmission for Ultra-Low Delay Applications","authors":"C. Rachinger, J. Huber, W. Gerstacker","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOMW.2018.8644382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOMW.2018.8644382","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we show that Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is not well suited for transmission over wireless channels with intersymbol interference (ISI), if a low delay constraint prohibits the use of channel codes with long code words. We compare OFDM with single-carrier transmission for scenarios with very short block lengths and different code rates. The single-carrier receive signal is equalized and decoded using either a Turbo scheme or a so-called matched decoder, which combines channel equalization and decoding and allows for a flexible trade-off between complexity and performance. Our results show that OFDM suffers from severe losses compared to single-carrier transmission if a very low latency—corresponding to a very short block length—is required. This effect is most pronounced for high code rates.","PeriodicalId":348924,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122854804","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}
Hasan Farahneh, Fatima Hussain, Rasheed Hussain, Xavier N Fernando
{"title":"A Novel Optimal Precoder and Equalizer in $2times 2$ MIMO VLC Systems for Vehicular Application","authors":"Hasan Farahneh, Fatima Hussain, Rasheed Hussain, Xavier N Fernando","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOMW.2018.8644211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOMW.2018.8644211","url":null,"abstract":"Precoding is a technique which exploits transmission diversity by weighting the information stream, i.e. the transmitter sends the coded information to the receiver to achieve pre-knowledge of the channel. Visible light communication (VLC) channels inherently exhibit frequency-selective and multi-path fading effects that result in intersymbol interference (ISI) and thus reduces the data rate. To this end, optical multiple input multiple output (MIMO) can provide spatial diversity and thus achieve a high data rate. Inspired by these facts, we investigate different precoding and equalization schemes for $2 times 2$ MIMO for the vehicle to vehicle (V2V-VLC) system. In this work, we consider three detection schemes, Zero Forcing (ZF), Maximum likelihood (ML), and Minimum Mean Squared Error (MMSE). Also, we consider flickering/dimming control and the nature of outdoor VLC channel as a frequency selective channel. Moreover, we investigate a transceiver considering perfect CSI based on different detection algorithms. Simulation results of the investigated transceiver demonstrate improvements in Bit Error Rate (BER) and Mean Squared Error (MSE) for the MMSE scheme.","PeriodicalId":348924,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114447283","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}