{"title":"NashWifi: Coordinated management of heterogenous home 802.11 networks using bargaining","authors":"Aditya Akella, P. Ramamurthy, A. Mutapcic","doi":"10.1109/COMSNETS.2010.5431988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMSNETS.2010.5431988","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present an economically principled framework for coordinated configurations of heterogeneous wireless networks. Our approach, called NashWiFi, is based on the concept of Nash bargaining. We argue that NashWiFi can improve both the global performance of a large diverse 802.11 deployment, while also improving the local performance of individual applications in an equitable fashion. NashWiFi can accommodate applications with diverse needs ranging from file transfer to HD streaming. Extensive experiments using an implementation of NashWiFi support in the MadWifi driver and large scale simulations using Qualnet establish the salient features of our approach.","PeriodicalId":369006,"journal":{"name":"2010 Second International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworks (COMSNETS 2010)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123184385","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":"Terminal reliability evaluation of the Augmented Data Vortex all optical interconnection network","authors":"N. Sharma, D. Chadha, V. Chandra","doi":"10.1109/COMSNETS.2010.5431966","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMSNETS.2010.5431966","url":null,"abstract":"The Augmented Data Vortex switch has been proposed in our earlier publications as a high capacity, high throughput, and low-latency all optical packet switched interconnection network for optical switching that can overcome major challenges of all optical packet switching [1, 2]. Recently there has been much analysis and comparison of optical multistage interconnection networks (OMINs) from the aspect of reliability, the focus of this analysis being either terminal reliability (TR) or network reliability (NR). Since the ADV switch is based on a new topology, these issues need to be considered in addition to other performance factors such as latency, throughput, etc. In our earlier work we evaluated the fault tolerance and network reliability of ADV [1]. In this paper we present the terminal reliability evaluation of ADV.","PeriodicalId":369006,"journal":{"name":"2010 Second International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworks (COMSNETS 2010)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130866471","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":"Distributed adaptation algorithms for rate-controlled video multicast over shared infrastructure networks","authors":"M. Rabby, K. Ravindran, Jun Wu","doi":"10.1109/COMSNETS.2010.5431985","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMSNETS.2010.5431985","url":null,"abstract":"We consider a wide-area video conferencing application where the video sources can adapt their send rates according to the available bandwidth in the network paths. We advocate a joint rate control of the sources to relieve the congestion, instead of running multiple instances of a single-source adaptation algorithm and additively superposing their results. The existing techniques work nicely with single-source trees, but do not work optimally in the case of multi-source trees with shared QoS goals. Using the well-known AIMD-based adaptation procedures, we incorporate the topology inferencing mechanism into a coordinated rate adaptation algorithm executed by the loss-experiencing sources. The paper provides a simulation based evaluation of our algorithm to corroborate the benefits.","PeriodicalId":369006,"journal":{"name":"2010 Second International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworks (COMSNETS 2010)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115497620","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}
A. Devarajan, K. Sandesha, R. Gowrishankar, B. S. Kishore, Prasanna Ganesan, Ron Johnson, Pavan Voruganti
{"title":"Colorless, Directionless and Contentionless multi-degree ROADM architecture for mesh optical networks","authors":"A. Devarajan, K. Sandesha, R. Gowrishankar, B. S. Kishore, Prasanna Ganesan, Ron Johnson, Pavan Voruganti","doi":"10.1109/COMSNETS.2010.5431987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMSNETS.2010.5431987","url":null,"abstract":"A Colorless and Directionless (C&D) ROADM architecture has empowered today's networks with the much needed flexibility and scalability to handle the unpredictable high bandwidth demands, provide any-to-any connectivity and provision new services without disrupting the existing ones. In this paper, we realize the C&D ROADM architectures using PXC and WSS at a multi-degree node. We then evaluate both the architectures based on the various advantages offered by them. We also discuss some of the drawbacks of the two architectures. Subsequently, we propose a Colorless, Directionless and Contentionless (CD&C) architecture which combines the features offered by both the C&D architectures. Finally, we discuss practical implementation issues of the proposed architecture.","PeriodicalId":369006,"journal":{"name":"2010 Second International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworks (COMSNETS 2010)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124196907","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":"Engineering location based pathfinding on Indian road networks over low end mobile phones","authors":"Siddhartha Jain, R. Ghosh, R. K. Shyamsundar","doi":"10.1109/COMSNETS.2010.5431980","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMSNETS.2010.5431980","url":null,"abstract":"A non-intrusive position-sensing technology is critical to the success of location-aware services over mobile phones and PDAs. No single positioning technology can meet the localization requirements across the range of location-aware or location based services. However, for many value added services, it is possible to use locations approximations within certain tolerable thresholds. This paper, in particular, examines how GSM infrastructure can be leveraged for localization of low cost mobile phones with adequate approximations to meet the requirements of certain location aware services especially in countries like India. The feasibility of the approach is demonstrated by pathfinder service (prototype of a location-aware road navigation utility) for Indian cities where road network is very ill structured compared to those in American or European cities. It provides text based driving instructions to a destination when a mobile phone user sends a query via SMS. We also looked at the theoretical issues arising out of optimal shortest path computation over semi-structured road networks and propose a new algorithm for the same.","PeriodicalId":369006,"journal":{"name":"2010 Second International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworks (COMSNETS 2010)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127818793","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":"On social behavior of wireless sensor node","authors":"K. Padmanabh, S. Paul, Amrit Kumar","doi":"10.1109/COMSNETS.2010.5431973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMSNETS.2010.5431973","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we study a wireless sensor network (WSN) as a social network in which the embedded sensors are the main entities as opposed to human beings in a traditional social network. In wireless sensor networks, the nodes resemble individuals in a way that they communicate with their peers, sometimes selectively hiding some information, sometimes selectively exposing some other information, generating or forwarding information, sharing resources, joining and/or leaving the network. We argue in this paper that nodes of the sensor network have their own social life, and based on that assumption, we leverage ideas from social networks to show how the nodes can communicate in a “social networking” style to achieve significant efficiency. Specifically, we study the performance of WSN when some common rules of social network are applied in WSN and show significant reduction of overhead traffic leading to longer battery life of embedded nodes and better utilization of the network. Results from theoretical analysis have been verified through experimental study to justify the benefits of treating WSN as a social network.","PeriodicalId":369006,"journal":{"name":"2010 Second International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworks (COMSNETS 2010)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124323560","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":"Analysis of performance degradation with generalized orthogonal codes due to channel estimation errors in Pre-Rake TDD/DS-CDMA downlink","authors":"C. Subhas, K. Naidu, Y. V. Reddy","doi":"10.1109/COMSNETS.2010.5432019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMSNETS.2010.5432019","url":null,"abstract":"The Pre-Rake diversity combining technique decreases the complexity, size and cost of the mobile unit while achieving the same inter symbol interference mitigation effects of conventional Rake receiver for direct sequence code division multiple access (DS-CDMA) systems. The technique is based on preprocessing of signal at the transmitter relying on knowledge of the channel state information. This a priori information is available in time division duplex (TDD) mode due to channel reciprocity. In practice, errors in channel estimation occur due to time varying nature of mobile radio channels and also due to method adopted for channel estimation. Most of the previous works on Pre-Rake for TDD/DS-CDMA systems have not taken into consideration the effect of errors in channel estimation. In this paper, we analyze Pre-Rake performance under imperfect channel estimation with generalized orthogonal (GO) codes. We also present a pilot-based correlation method for channel estimation and evaluate the Pre-Rake system through analytical and computer simulations for TDD/DS-CDMA downlink.","PeriodicalId":369006,"journal":{"name":"2010 Second International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworks (COMSNETS 2010)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129008522","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. V. Prabhakar, S. Devasenapathy, H. Jamadagni, R. V. Prasad
{"title":"Smart applications for energy harvested WSNs","authors":"T. V. Prabhakar, S. Devasenapathy, H. Jamadagni, R. V. Prasad","doi":"10.1109/COMSNETS.2010.5431958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMSNETS.2010.5431958","url":null,"abstract":"A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) powered using harvested energies is limited in its operation by instantaneous power. Since energy availability can be different across nodes in the network, network setup and collaboration is a non trivial task. At the same time, in the event of excess energy, exciting node collaboration possibilities exist; often not feasible with battery driven sensor networks. Operations such as sensing, computation, storage and communication are required to achieve the common goal for any sensor network. In this paper, we design and implement a smart application that uses a Decision Engine, and morphs itself into an energy matched application. The results are based on measurements using IRIS motes running on solar energy. We have done away with batteries; instead used low leakage super capacitors to store harvested energy. The Decision Engine utilizes two pieces of data to provide its recommendations. Firstly, a history based energy prediction model assists the engine with information about in-coming energy. The second input is the energy cost database for operations. The energy driven Decision Engine calculates the energy budgets and recommends the best possible set of operations. Under excess energy condition, the Decision Engine, promiscuously sniffs the neighborhood looking for all possible data from neighbors. This data includes neighbor's energy level and sensor data. Equipped with this data, nodes establish detailed data correlation and thus enhance collaboration such as filling up data gaps on behalf of nodes hibernating under low energy conditions. The results are encouraging. Node and network life time of the sensor nodes running the smart application is found to be significantly higher compared to the base application.","PeriodicalId":369006,"journal":{"name":"2010 Second International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworks (COMSNETS 2010)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128004411","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 near-optimal scheme for TCP ACK pacing to maintain throughput in wireless networks","authors":"Gitanjali Bhutani","doi":"10.1109/COMSNETS.2010.5431960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMSNETS.2010.5431960","url":null,"abstract":"The advent of fourth generation technologies in wireless networks and the rapid growth of 3G have heralded an era that will require researchers to find reliable and easily implement-able solutions to the problem of poor TCP performance in the wireless environment. Since a large part of the Internet is TCP-based, solving this problem will be instrumental in determining if the move from wired to wireless will be seamless or not. This paper proposes a scheme that uses the base station's ability to predict the time at which the link may be going down and to estimate the period for which the mobile would be unreachable due to conditions like fading. By using cross-layer and ACK pacing algorithms, the base station prevents the fixed host from timing out while waiting for ACKs from the mobile. This in turn prevents TCP on the fixed host from bringing down the throughput drastically due to temporary network conditions, caused by mobility or the unreliability of wireless links. Experimental results indicate a reasonable increase in throughput when the ACK holding scheme is used.","PeriodicalId":369006,"journal":{"name":"2010 Second International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworks (COMSNETS 2010)","volume":"166 Pt 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116048183","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}
Pranav Agrawal, Anurag Kumar, J. Kuri, M. Panda, Vishnu Navda, R. Ramjee, V. Padmanabhan
{"title":"Analytical models for energy consumption in infrastructure WLAN STAs carrying TCP traffic","authors":"Pranav Agrawal, Anurag Kumar, J. Kuri, M. Panda, Vishnu Navda, R. Ramjee, V. Padmanabhan","doi":"10.1109/COMSNETS.2010.5432010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMSNETS.2010.5432010","url":null,"abstract":"We develop analytical models for estimating the energy spent by stations (STAs) in infrastructure WLANs when performing TCP controlled file downloads. We focus on the energy spent in radio communication when the STAs are in the Continuously Active Mode (CAM), or in the static Power Save Mode (PSM). Our approach is to develop accurate models for obtaining the fraction of times the STA radios spend in idling, receiving and transmitting. We discuss two traffic models for each mode of operation: (i) each STA performs one large file download, and (ii) the STAs perform short file transfers. We evaluate the rate of STA energy expenditure with long file downloads, and show that static PSM is worse than just using CAM. For short file downloads we compute the number of file downloads that can be completed with given battery capacity, and show that PSM performs better than CAM for this case. We provide a validation of our analytical models using the NS-2 simulator.","PeriodicalId":369006,"journal":{"name":"2010 Second International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworks (COMSNETS 2010)","volume":"14 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123663307","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}