{"title":"A study on time domain deterministic-stochastic model of spectrum usage in WLAN","authors":"K. Umebayashi, M. López-Benítez","doi":"10.1109/WCNC.2018.8377445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2018.8377445","url":null,"abstract":"Duty cycle (DC) has been used to express the deterministic and stochastic aspects of spectrum usage. Specifically, a deterministic model for the mean of the duty cycle (MDC) has been proposed in a previous work. On the other hand, the observed DC (O-DC) during short time duration has randomness and a stochastic model is used to express the randomness. In this paper, we extend the conventional approach to a combined deterministic-stochastic (DS) model which represents both the deterministic and stochastic aspects. For the distribution of the O-DC, the beta distribution has been used as stochastic model, but we employ a mixture of beta distributions. The mixture-beta distribution can achieve higher accuracy but requires more capacity for data storage in spectrum usage measurements since it has a higher number of parameters than the beta distribution. For this issue, we employ regression analysis in DS-model to reduce the number of parameters while retaining the accuracy. We show the validity of DS-model based on exhaustive spectrum measurements in IEEE 802.11-based wireless local area networks.","PeriodicalId":360054,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)","volume":"505 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123040317","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-oriented resource allocation for energy efficiency optimization in uplink OFDMA networks","authors":"H. Sokun, E. Bedeer, R. Gohary, H. Yanikomeroglu","doi":"10.1109/WCNC.2018.8377327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2018.8377327","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the battery-limited nature of mobile devices, improving energy efficiency (EE) of individual users and ensuring EE fairness among those users are one of the key design issues in uplink transmission of cellular networks. In this paper, we consider the joint optimization of discrete power and resource blocks allocations to maximize the minimum EE among users subject to individual power budget constraints. The optimization problem is combinatorial. Thus, we propose an efficient algorithm, based on semidefinite relaxation with Gaussian randomization, to solve the resultant non-convex problem in polynomial time complexity. The numerical results show how well the proposed algorithm performs against the optimal one and indicate the impact of discrete power levels on the fairness-oriented EE optimization.","PeriodicalId":360054,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115205995","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}
Mehdi Salehi Heydar Abad, Özgür Erçetin, T. Elbatt, M. Nafie
{"title":"Wireless energy and information transfer in networks with hybrid ARQ","authors":"Mehdi Salehi Heydar Abad, Özgür Erçetin, T. Elbatt, M. Nafie","doi":"10.1109/WCNC.2018.8377437","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2018.8377437","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we consider a class of wireless powered communication devices using hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) protocol to ensure reliable communications. In particular, we analyze the trade-off between accumulating mutual information and harvesting RF energy at the receiver of a point-to-point link over a time-varying independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) channel. The transmitter is assumed to have a constant energy source while the receiver relies, solely, on the RF energy harvested from the received signal. At each time slot, the incoming RF signal is split between information accumulation and energy accumulation with the objective of minimizing the expected number of re-transmissions. A major finding of this work is that the optimal policy minimizing the expected number of re-transmissions utilizes the incoming RF signal to either exclusively harvest energy or to accumulate mutual information. This finding enables achieving an optimal solution in feasible time by converting a two dimensional uncountable state Markov decision process (MDP) with continuous action space into a countable state MDP with binary decision space.","PeriodicalId":360054,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127817527","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}
P. Sofotasios, Seong Ki Yoo, S. Muhaidat, S. Cotton, M. Matthaiou, M. Valkama, G. Karagiannidis
{"title":"Error analysis of wireless transmission over generalized multipath/shadowing channels","authors":"P. Sofotasios, Seong Ki Yoo, S. Muhaidat, S. Cotton, M. Matthaiou, M. Valkama, G. Karagiannidis","doi":"10.1109/WCNC.2018.8377390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2018.8377390","url":null,"abstract":"The η-μ / inverse gamma and κ-μ / inverse gamma distributions were recently introduced as particularly flexible and tractable composite fading models that provide accurate characterization of multipath and shadowing effects, which are encountered simultaneously during wireless transmission in emerging communication scenarios such as off-body, cellular and vehicular-to-vehicular communications. The present contribution analyzes the symbol error rate performance of digital communications over these fading channels. To this end, we derive novel analytic expressions for the symbol error rate of multiple amplitude based modulated systems under these fading conditions, which are subsequently used in the analysis of the corresponding system performance. In this context, numerous insights are developed on the effect of different fading conditions on the corresponding error rate, which are expected to be useful in the design of timely and demanding wireless technologies such as wearable, cellular and vehicular communication systems.","PeriodicalId":360054,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)","volume":"02 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130603679","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}
Ahmed Al-Tahmeesschi, M. López-Benítez, Janne J. Lehtomäki, K. Umebayashi
{"title":"Improving primary statistics prediction under imperfect spectrum sensing","authors":"Ahmed Al-Tahmeesschi, M. López-Benítez, Janne J. Lehtomäki, K. Umebayashi","doi":"10.1109/WCNC.2018.8377259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2018.8377259","url":null,"abstract":"Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) / Cognitive Radio (CR) systems utilize spectrum sensing to monitor spectrum status and decide transmission time in an opportunistic manner. This results in an increase in wireless spectrum efficiency. Spectrum sensing can also be used to monitor the statistics of primary users to gain information on occupation patterns and estimate the statistics of the primary traffic activity, a useful knowledge that can be exploited in many ways. In this research, three novel algorithms are proposed to enhance the estimation of primary user activity statistics under imperfect spectrum sensing given the knowledge of minimum transmission time. Simulation results show that the proposed methods enable accurate estimation for the primary user statistics. Moreover, the proposed methods are compared to previously proposed methods and it is shown they provide a significantly better estimation accuracy.","PeriodicalId":360054,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134251551","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}
Ahmed Al-Tahmeesschi, M. López-Benítez, Janne J. Lehtomäki, K. Umebayashi
{"title":"Accurate estimation of primary user traffic based on periodic spectrum sensing","authors":"Ahmed Al-Tahmeesschi, M. López-Benítez, Janne J. Lehtomäki, K. Umebayashi","doi":"10.1109/WCNC.2018.8377169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2018.8377169","url":null,"abstract":"An accurate estimation of the primary statistics is essential for Cognitive Radio (CR) systems. This knowledge can be exploited to enhance CR performance and reduce the interference with the primary users. In this work, we propose a method based on the Method of Moments (MoM) to improve the distribution estimation. A Modified Method of Moments (MMoM) with a correction factor is proposed to improve the estimation of moments and thus the resulting primary distribution. The simulation and experimental results show that the MMoM approach is notably more accurate. Finally, we study the importance of having a sufficiently large sample space and the effect of sample size on the moments and the primary distribution estimation.","PeriodicalId":360054,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131452146","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}
Evangelos Zimos, J. Mota, Evaggelia Tsiligianni, M. Rodrigues, N. Deligiannis
{"title":"Data aggregation and recovery for the Internet of Things: A compressive demixing approach","authors":"Evangelos Zimos, J. Mota, Evaggelia Tsiligianni, M. Rodrigues, N. Deligiannis","doi":"10.1109/WCNC.2018.8377196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2018.8377196","url":null,"abstract":"Large-scale wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications involve diverse sensing devices collecting and transmitting massive amounts of heterogeneous data. In this paper, we propose a novel compressive data aggregation and recovery mechanism that reduces the global communication cost without introducing computational overhead at the network nodes. Following the principles of compressive demixing, each node of the network collects measurement readings from multiple sources and mixes them with readings from other nodes into a single low-dimensional measurement vector, which is then relayed to other nodes; the constituent signals are recovered at the sink using convex optimization. Our design achieves significant reduction in the overall network data rates compared to prior schemes based on (distributed) compressed sensing or compressed sensing with (multiple) side information. Experiments using real large-scale air-quality data demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed framework against state-of-the-art solutions, with and without the presence of measurement and transmission noise.","PeriodicalId":360054,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121809397","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. Barceló-Ordinas, J. García-Vidal, M. Doudou, S. Rodrigo-Munoz, Albert Cerezo-Llavero
{"title":"Calibrating low-cost air quality sensors using multiple arrays of sensors","authors":"J. Barceló-Ordinas, J. García-Vidal, M. Doudou, S. Rodrigo-Munoz, Albert Cerezo-Llavero","doi":"10.1109/WCNC.2018.8377051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2018.8377051","url":null,"abstract":"The remarkable advances in sensing and communication technologies have introduced increasingly low-cost, smart and portable sensors that can be embedded everywhere and play an important role in environmental sensing applications such as air quality monitoring. These user-friendly wireless sensor platforms enable assessment of human exposure to air pollution through observations at high spatial resolution in near-realtime, thus providing new opportunities to simultaneously enhance existing monitoring systems, as well as engage citizens in active environmental monitoring. However, data quality from such platforms is a concern since sensing hardware of such devices is generally characterized by a reduced accuracy, precision, and reliability. Achieving good data quality and maintaining error free measurements during the whole system lifetime is challenging. Over time, sensors become subject to several sources of unknown and uncontrollable faulty data which comprise the accuracy of the measurements and yield observations far from the expected values. This paper investigates calibration of low-cost air quality sensors in a real sensor network deployment. The approach leverages on the availability of sensor arrays in a wireless node to estimate parameters that minimize the calibration error using fusion of data from multiple sensors. The obtained results were encouraging and show the effectiveness of the approach compared to a single sensor calibration.","PeriodicalId":360054,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132189700","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":"Spatial-mode multiplexing with mutually coherent channels in free space optical communications","authors":"Shenjie Huang, M. Safari","doi":"10.1109/WCNC.2018.8377109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2018.8377109","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the spatial-mode multiplexing (SMM) free-space optical communication (FSO) systems with direct detection are considered. Unlike systems studied in several works in the literature where mutually incoherent channels are assumed, we investigate high-speed SMM FSO systems with mutually coherent channels where a single laser source with narrow linewidth is employed at the transmitter. An analytical model for such mutually coherent channels is developed and expression for aggregate achievable rate (AAR) is derived. Through numerical simulations, it is shown that an optimal transmitted mode set can be determined which results in the maximal asymptotic AAR at high transmitted power and for different turbulence conditions, the optimal mode set varies.","PeriodicalId":360054,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115444861","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":"Efficient and low complexity optimized feature spectrum sensing with receiver offsets","authors":"I. Anyim, J. Chiverton, M. Filip, A. Tawfik","doi":"10.1109/WCNC.2018.8377412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2018.8377412","url":null,"abstract":"Spectrum awareness is an important function in the context of cognitive radio systems. It determines the presence or absence of free channels in the spectrum and identifies free channels for secondary users. Cyclostationary Feature Detection is an example of a spectrum awareness technique which involves the detection of signals based on their features such as cyclic frequencies, symbol rates, carrier frequencies and modulation types. It detects signals at very low signal-to-noise ratios. However there are performance degrading constraints such as cyclic and sampling clock offsets that can occur at the receiver end. These offsets result from local oscillator frequency offsets, Doppler effects and jitter. We propose an efficient low complexity multi-slot cyclostationary feature detector that reduces the effects of these constraints through an offline optimization approach that produces the number and size of slot and fast Fourier transform to be used. These slots and fast Fourier transforms are used to show the reduction of these offsets and the detection performance compared for the case of different signal to noise ratios in the presence or absence of the receiver offsets. Also, the complexity of the model is compared with the complexity of the conventional implementation and it shows significant reductions in the number of required computations.","PeriodicalId":360054,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117016917","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}