{"title":"Theoretical Lower Bound for UWB TDOA Positioning","authors":"Jun Xu, M. Ma, C. Law","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOM.2007.780","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2007.780","url":null,"abstract":"Indoor radio channels suffer multipath and non- line-of-sight (NLOS) fading, which is undesirable for accurate indoor positioning. High bandwidth of Ultra-wideband (UWB) implies high temporal resolution and hence high ranging accuracy. Furthermore, its robustness to multipath fading makes UWB perfect for indoor applications. This paper analyses the theoretical bounds of position estimation based on UWB time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA) measurements in multipath and NLOS environments. The TDOA range errors are modeled as range dependent, where the variance of the range errors is a function of the interested TDOA range. Cramer-Rao Lower Bound (CRLB) for distance- independent and distance-dependent TDOA range errors has been derived and compared.","PeriodicalId":370937,"journal":{"name":"IEEE GLOBECOM 2007 - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference","volume":"321 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113958701","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":"Collaborative Image Transmissions Based on Region and Path Diversity in Wireless Sensor Network","authors":"Honggang Wang, D. Peng, Wei Wang, H. Sharif","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOM.2007.187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2007.187","url":null,"abstract":"Many sensor applications such as monitoring and surveillance may require image sensor array to conduct collaborative image transmissions in wireless sensor networks (WSN). The large size image transmissions cause bottlenecks in WSN due to the limited energy resources and network capacity. In this paper, we propose a collaborative transmission scheme for image sensors to utilize inter-sensor correlations to decide transmission patterns based on transmission path diversities, which achieves minimal energy consumption, balanced sensor lifetime and required image quality. This optimization scheme not only allows each image sensor to transmit optimal fractions of the overlapped images through appropriate transmission paths in energy-efficient way, but also provides unequal protection on the overlap image regions through path selections and resource allocations to achieve good transmission image quality. The simulation results show that the proposed image transmission scheme can achieve considerable gains in terms of the network lifetime extension, image distortion reduction, and energy efficiency.","PeriodicalId":370937,"journal":{"name":"IEEE GLOBECOM 2007 - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127889802","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}
Xiaojiang Du, M. Guizani, Yang Xiao, Hsiao-Hwa Chen
{"title":"A Secure Time Synchronization Scheme for Heterogeneous Sensor Networks","authors":"Xiaojiang Du, M. Guizani, Yang Xiao, Hsiao-Hwa Chen","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOM.2007.975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2007.975","url":null,"abstract":"Time synchronization is critical for many sensor network operations, such as mobile object tracking and sensor node scheduling. Many existing time synchronization schemes for sensor networks do not considering security issue, and they are vulnerable to several attacks. Furthermore, most existing synchronization schemes are designed for homogeneous sensor networks, where all sensors have the same capability. Research has shown that homogeneous ad hoc networks have poor fundamental limits and performance. To improve performance and security of sensor networks, we adopt a Heterogeneous Sensor Network (HSN) model. In this paper, we present a secure and efficient time synchronization scheme for HSN by utilizing powerful high-end sensors. We implement the synchronization scheme in real sensors and our experiments show that the scheme achieves high accuracy. The security analysis demonstrates that our scheme is resilient to various attacks.","PeriodicalId":370937,"journal":{"name":"IEEE GLOBECOM 2007 - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126245438","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 MAC Protocol with Directional Antennas for Deafness Avoidance in Ad Hoc Networks","authors":"M. Takata, M. Bandai, Takashi Watanabe","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOM.2007.121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2007.121","url":null,"abstract":"Directional antennas are expected to provide significant improvements over omni-directional antennas in wireless ad hoc networks. Directional MAC protocols, however, introduce new kinds of problems arising from directivity. One major problem is deafness, caused by a lack of state information from neighbor nodes (i.e., idle or busy). This paper proposes DMAC/DA (Directional MAC with Deafness Avoidance) to overcome the deafness problem. In DMAC/DA, WTS (Wait To Send) frames are transmitted by the transmitter and the receiver after the successful exchange of directional RTS (Request To Send) and CTS (Clear To Send) to notify the on-going communication to potential transmitters that may experience deafness. Furthermore, DMAC/DA is enhanced by the next packet notification to distinguish transmitters from neighbors. We evaluate our protocol through extensive simulation study with different values of parameters such as the number of flows, data size and beamwidth. The experimental results show that DMAC/DA outperforms existing directional MAC protocols, such as DMAC (Directional MAC) and MDA (MAC protocol for Directional Antennas), in terms of throughput, RTS failure ratio, and control overhead.","PeriodicalId":370937,"journal":{"name":"IEEE GLOBECOM 2007 - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126280541","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":"Jitter Investigation and Performance Evaluation of a Small-Scale Probe Storage Device Prototype","authors":"A. Sebastian, A. Pantazi, H. Pozidis","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOM.2007.61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2007.61","url":null,"abstract":"MEMS-based scanning-probe data storage devices are emerging as potential ultra-high-density, low-access-time, and low-power alternatives to conventional data storage. Thermomechanical probe-based storage on thin polymer films is arguably the most advanced scanning-probe data storage scheme. The performance evaluation of a small-scale storage device prototype based on this concept is presented. The emphasis is on understanding the timing jitter in the read-back signals. Experiments are performed that confirm that the primary source of timing-jitter is the nanometer-scale perturbations of the micro-scanner while positioning the recording medium relative to the read/write transducers. Analytical estimates of these micro-scanner perturbations are obtained. An extensive performance evaluation, using the experimentally identified channel and medium-noise spectral characteristics, is conducted to study the impact of the microscanner perturbations on the performance of the storage device.","PeriodicalId":370937,"journal":{"name":"IEEE GLOBECOM 2007 - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128144124","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":"Interworking Wireless Mesh Networks: Performance Characterization and Perspectives","authors":"Tsai-Wei Wu, Hung-Yun Hsieh","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOM.2007.919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2007.919","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we consider multi-mode, multi-radio wireless mesh networks and investigate the impact when multiple wireless mesh networks overlap in service area. We formulate the problem of resource sharing as a network optimization problem, and present a general LP (linear programming) formulation for modeling the problem. We first find that in a system with multiple wireless mesh networks in overlap, individual mesh networks could suffer from capacity degradation if no form of inter-domain coordination is present. Therefore, it is desirable to \"interwork\" these wireless mesh networks by allowing inter-domain traffic relay through provisioning of \"bridge\" nodes. If bridge nodes are chosen arbitrarily without any careful planning, however, serious inefficiency and unfairness problem may result. We use the proposed LP formulation to show the impact of bridge node selection and performance tradeoffs between throughput unfairness and network capacity when interworking multiple wireless mesh networks. Based on simulation results, we conclude that if proper interworking is provided, significant performance gain can be obtained for overlapping wireless mesh networks.","PeriodicalId":370937,"journal":{"name":"IEEE GLOBECOM 2007 - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference","volume":"177 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128159550","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}
Zongkai Yang, Shengbin Liao, Wei Liu, W. Cheng, Zhiqiang Xiong
{"title":"Utility-Optimal Power Control in Wireless Sensor Networks","authors":"Zongkai Yang, Shengbin Liao, Wei Liu, W. Cheng, Zhiqiang Xiong","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOM.2007.259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2007.259","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are energy- constrained in nature, moreover, sensor nodes play the dual role of data gathering and data relaying. In this paper, we consider how to allocate the power of sensor nodes for forwarding traffic of other nodes. After forwarding power ratios of nodes are decided, we consider pricing as a mean to stimulate cooperation between a node and other nodes along its routing path to a sink node. By formulating the problem of data sensing and transport in WSNs as a network utility maximization (NUM) problem, we propose an iterative price and power adaption algorithm by using dual decomposition techniques. Numerical results show that by using our price mechanism, we can improve system performance while reducing power consumption.","PeriodicalId":370937,"journal":{"name":"IEEE GLOBECOM 2007 - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125453494","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}
Pan Li, N. Scalabrino, Yuguang Fang, E. Gregori, I. Chlamtac
{"title":"Channel Interference in IEEE 802.11b Systems","authors":"Pan Li, N. Scalabrino, Yuguang Fang, E. Gregori, I. Chlamtac","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOM.2007.171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2007.171","url":null,"abstract":"There are many different channels denned in the IEEE 802.11 standard. However, the performance of WiFi networks still greatly suffers from the interference between users, even if they are using different channels. In this paper, we conduct some theoretical analysis of the interference between two channels, which is further verified by experiments. We show that there is indeed serious interference between two non- overlapping channels if they are close to each other.","PeriodicalId":370937,"journal":{"name":"IEEE GLOBECOM 2007 - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125615207","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 2-Approximation Double-Tree Algorithm for Correlated Data Gathering in Wireless Sensor Networks","authors":"Hsien-Cheng Weng, Hope Chan, E. Wu, Gen-Huey Chen","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOM.2007.173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2007.173","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we design a novel transmission structure called a double-tree for correlated data gathering problem for wireless sensor networks, where the goal is to minimize the total transmission cost of information collected by all sensor nodes, to the sink node. It is well-known that a tree structure is often adopted for network routing problems. However, the traditional tree transmission structure for network routing may not be an optimal structure while data correlation factors are being considered. For a given wireless sensor network, some nodes send their raw data directly to the sink, and some nodes send their encoded data based on information received from other nodes; therefore, there are two types of data in the network. Without the help of decoding/re-coding at the intermediate node, the purpose of encoded data routing is to directly send to the sink, but the purpose of raw data routing is not only to send to the sink, but also to spread raw data to other nodes as side information in encoding operations. The difference from one data type makes traditional tree structure unsuitable for the correlated data gathering problem. Therefore according to our observations, we propose a new transmission double-tree structure, which uses one tree for raw data routing, and uses another tree for encoded data routing. By employing the double-tree structure, the network can achieve lower transmission cost of gathering sensing data. Furthermore the adoption of double-tree structure always outperforms the traditional tree structure in correlated data gathering problem. We first formulate the optimization problem with a double-tree transmission structure in the general case, and prove NP-Hardness of simplified version of this problem. Then we present a 2-approximation algorithm MST+SPT that guarantees the upper bound of total transmission cost compared to the optimal solution.","PeriodicalId":370937,"journal":{"name":"IEEE GLOBECOM 2007 - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121940850","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 Spectrally Efficient Transmission Scheme for Half-Duplex Decode-and-Forward Relaying","authors":"M. N. Khormuji, E. Larsson","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOM.2007.320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2007.320","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a spectrally efficient transmission scheme for the half-duplex relay channel. In the proposed scheme, the relay combines N detected r-dimensional symbols and generates M new r-dimensional symbols, where M < N, using a linear transformation. The proposed linear transformation preserves the signal energy, and it facilitates decoupled symbol detection at the receiver. We also present an optimized design for the case of complex scalar modulation (r = 2) with N = 2 and M = 1. This design increases the spectral efficiency by 33 % compared to conventional decode- or amplify-and-forward relaying.","PeriodicalId":370937,"journal":{"name":"IEEE GLOBECOM 2007 - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131993334","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}