Amir Ashtari Gargari, Matteo Pagin, Michele Polese, Michele Zorzi
{"title":"6G Integrated Access and Backhaul Networks with Sub-Terahertz Links","authors":"Amir Ashtari Gargari, Matteo Pagin, Michele Polese, Michele Zorzi","doi":"10.23919/WONS57325.2023.10061913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/WONS57325.2023.10061913","url":null,"abstract":"Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) is a flexible and low-cost solution to deploy ultra-dense fifth and sixth generation (5G and 6G) systems, as it enables wireless backhaul links based on the same technology and specifications as for the access links. In this paper, we consider the deployment of mixed millimeter wave (mmWave) and sub-terahertz links to increase the capacity of the backhaul network, and provide the first performance evaluation of the potential of sub-terahertz frequencies for 6G IAB. To do so, we develop a greedy algorithm that allocates frequency bands to the backhaul links (considering constraints on spectrum licenses, sharing, and congestion) and generates the wireless network mesh. We then profile the performance through a custom extension of the open-source system-level simulator Sionna that supports Release 17 IAB specifications and channel models up to 140 GHz. Our results show that IAB with sub-terahertz links can outperform a mmWave-only deployment with improvements of 4×for average user throughput and a reduction of up to 50% for median latency.","PeriodicalId":380263,"journal":{"name":"2023 18th Wireless On-Demand Network Systems and Services Conference (WONS)","volume":"397 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115917151","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}
Fabio Mavilia, P. Barsocchi, Francesco Furfari, M. Girolami
{"title":"Evaluating the Impact of Anchors Deployment for an AoA-based Indoor Localization System","authors":"Fabio Mavilia, P. Barsocchi, Francesco Furfari, M. Girolami","doi":"10.23919/WONS57325.2023.10061949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/WONS57325.2023.10061949","url":null,"abstract":"Indoor localization techniques are rapidly moving toward the combination of multiple source of information. Among these, RSS, Time of Flight (ToF), Angle of Arrival (AoA) and of Departure (AoD) represent effective solutions for indoor environments. In this work, we propose an on-going activity investigating the performance of an indoor localization system based on the AoA-Bluetooth 5.1 specification, namely Direction Finding. We evaluate the effect of two anchor deployments and we test our localization algorithm by varying the orientation of the target according to four postures: North, West, South and East. From our study, we observe that anchor nodes deployed on the ceiling provide the best performance in terms of localization error. We conclude this work with a discussion of two further lines of investigation potentially increasing the performance of AoA-based indoor localization systems.","PeriodicalId":380263,"journal":{"name":"2023 18th Wireless On-Demand Network Systems and Services Conference (WONS)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114387596","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":"ASAP: Adaptive and Scalable Microservice Provisioning for Edge-IoT Networks","authors":"Amit Samanta, Flavio Esposito, Tri Gia Nguyen","doi":"10.23919/WONS57325.2023.10062045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/WONS57325.2023.10062045","url":null,"abstract":"The edge computing paradigm aims at provisioning compute and storage resources from Internet-of-Things (IoT)-enabled devices at the network edge, while disseminating the end-to-end latency and increasing mobile computational capacity. For scalable provisioning of microservices, recently proposed methods frequently need a priori information on the microservice type, computational capacity, and other parameters. In the presence of such restrictions, the present methods need to face lower quality of experience for mission-critical and resource-hungry applications. In this paper, we study the problem of microservice provisioning for mobile edge computing, and we propose an adaptive and scalable solution. The core of our optimal microservice differentiation scheme is ASAP, a microservice-level abstraction for the orchestration of network resources. ASAP provides adaptive and scalable microservice provisioning by minimizing microservice delay, while maximizing the network throughput. With a prototype tested over a local testbed and trace-driven simulations, we show how ASAP increases throughput compared to other solutions based on the executions of microservices at the edge.","PeriodicalId":380263,"journal":{"name":"2023 18th Wireless On-Demand Network Systems and Services Conference (WONS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131036835","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}
Mauro Allegretta, G. Siracusano, Roberto González, Pelayo Vallina, M. Gramaglia
{"title":"Using CTI Data to Understand Real World Cyberattacks","authors":"Mauro Allegretta, G. Siracusano, Roberto González, Pelayo Vallina, M. Gramaglia","doi":"10.23919/WONS57325.2023.10061921","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/WONS57325.2023.10061921","url":null,"abstract":"The forensic analysis of Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) data is of capital importance for businesses and enterprises to understand what has possibly gone wrong in a cybersecurity system. Moreover, the fast evolution of the techniques used by cybercriminals requires collaboration among multiple partners to provide efficient security mechanisms. STIX has emerged as the industrial standard to share CTI data in a structured format, allowing entities from over the world to exchange information to broaden the knowledge base in the area. In this work, we shed light on the type of information contained in these datasets shared among partners. We analyze a large real-world STIX dataset and identify trends for the reporting of CTI data. Then, we deep dive into two kinds of attack patterns found in the dataset: Command & Control and Malicious Software Download. We found the data is not only useful for forensic analysis but can also be used to improve the protection against new attacks.","PeriodicalId":380263,"journal":{"name":"2023 18th Wireless On-Demand Network Systems and Services Conference (WONS)","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125586983","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}
Tung V. Doan, T. Scheinert, Osel Lhamo, Juan A. Cabrera, F. Fitzek, Giang T. Nguyen
{"title":"Interplay Between Priority Queues and Controlled Delay in Programmable Data Planes","authors":"Tung V. Doan, T. Scheinert, Osel Lhamo, Juan A. Cabrera, F. Fitzek, Giang T. Nguyen","doi":"10.23919/WONS57325.2023.10062179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/WONS57325.2023.10062179","url":null,"abstract":"The Tactile Internet needs to support multiple modalities, including haptic data simultaneously, to enable human and robot interaction in perceived real-time. Compared to video and audio, haptic data streams require an even lower delay and more shallow packet loss, which is a challenge for the underlying networks originally designed to support high bandwidths by having a large queue to buffer packets. This raises the need to study queuing management for different data streams. We examine the performance of CoDel++, which combines the well-known Controlled Delay (CoDel) protocol and Priority Queues. We leverage programmable data planes, which can be programmed with P4. Evaluation results show that CoDel++ produces superior results for high-priority data streams, i.e., reducing latency by at least 60% and packet loss by half compared to individual exploitation of Priority Queuing or CoDel individually.","PeriodicalId":380263,"journal":{"name":"2023 18th Wireless On-Demand Network Systems and Services Conference (WONS)","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114210785","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}
N. Bartolini, Andrea Coletta, Flavio Giorgi, G. Maselli, Matteo Prata, Domenicomichele Silvestri
{"title":"Stop & Route: Periodic Data Offloading in UAV Networks","authors":"N. Bartolini, Andrea Coletta, Flavio Giorgi, G. Maselli, Matteo Prata, Domenicomichele Silvestri","doi":"10.23919/WONS57325.2023.10062043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/WONS57325.2023.10062043","url":null,"abstract":"Swarms of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are a key technology to support communication in many harsh environments where fixed infrastructures (e.g., 5G) are disrupted or not available. However, the fast mobility and highly dynamic network topology pose unique challenges and require the development of novel multi-hop routing protocols. Previous work in this direction extends geographical protocols, or adapts approaches designed for Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANETs), rarely taking full advantage of UAV capabilities. In this paper we introduce a novel data offloading approach, namely Stop & Route, that exploits the device controllable mobility to facilitate network routing. The swarm of UAVs performs data offloading synchronously and recurrently. At fixed intervals of time, the swarm interrupts the sensing mission (stop) and moves, as less as possible, to build a connected formation to the base station and offload the data (route). We provide both centralized solutions—assuming a long-range control channel — and a distributed solution — working in the absence of a control channel. By means of extensive simulations we show that our proposals outperform state-of-the-art solutions, decreasing the time taken to build a connected formation of about 25% and increasing the time spent on sensing of 14%.","PeriodicalId":380263,"journal":{"name":"2023 18th Wireless On-Demand Network Systems and Services Conference (WONS)","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115963731","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}
Naomi Stricker, Jasmine Hora, Andres Gomez, L. Thiele
{"title":"Energy-Efficient Bootstrapping in Multi-hop Harvesting-Based Networks","authors":"Naomi Stricker, Jasmine Hora, Andres Gomez, L. Thiele","doi":"10.23919/WONS57325.2023.10062242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/WONS57325.2023.10062242","url":null,"abstract":"Short-range multi-hop communication is an energy-efficient way to collect, share, and distribute large amounts of data with Internet of Things (IoT) systems. Nevertheless, the resource demands of wireless communication impose a burden on battery-operated IoT nodes, limiting their lifetime. Energy harvesting can address the energy limitation but introduces significant power variability, which affects reliable operation causing nodes to disconnect and join the network repeatedly. To mitigate this, we present Dual-Range Bootstrapping (DRB), a new mechanism for bootstrapping harvesting-based IoT nodes in multi-hop networks. DRB has both a very low and predictable energy cost, key properties for efficient energy management of harvesting-based nodes. We demonstrate DRB’s effectiveness in numerous scenarios using LoRa and FSK modulations, leveraging the former’s long range and the latter’s high data rate. We experimentally evaluate DRB with energy measurements performed on a communication testbed. Lastly, we use real-world energy harvesting traces to simulate the long-term behavior of a harvesting-based network.","PeriodicalId":380263,"journal":{"name":"2023 18th Wireless On-Demand Network Systems and Services Conference (WONS)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126645041","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":"Towards Hybrid Electronic-Mechanical Beamforming for IEEE 802.11ad","authors":"A. Zubow, Agon Memedi, F. Dressler","doi":"10.23919/WONS57325.2023.10062285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/WONS57325.2023.10062285","url":null,"abstract":"Electronical beamforming (EBF) is an enabling technology for millimeter-wave (mmWave)-based communication; it is used by standards like IEEE 802.11ad known as WiGig. As WiGig commercial off-the-shelf solutions must be inexpensive, the EBF cannot be freely controlled; instead the beamforming is chosen from a small set of preconfigured configurations, which limits its gain. In this paper, we propose hybrid WiGig (hWiGig), which provides an additional mechanical steering on top of the WiGig’s EBF by enabling physical rotation of the mmWave antenna array. A proof of concept prototype is implemented and used to quantify its gain. Experimental results reveal a large improvement in terms of throughput, especially in NLOS environments with a gain of up to 13.4×. Moreover, random strategies which test only a few physical orientations achieve still high performance gain which underlines hWiGig practical relevance.","PeriodicalId":380263,"journal":{"name":"2023 18th Wireless On-Demand Network Systems and Services Conference (WONS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129073798","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}
Andrea Zanella, S. Zubelzu, M. Bennis, Martina Capuzzo, P. Tarolli
{"title":"Internet of Things for Hydrology: Potential and Challenges","authors":"Andrea Zanella, S. Zubelzu, M. Bennis, Martina Capuzzo, P. Tarolli","doi":"10.23919/WONS57325.2023.10062193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/WONS57325.2023.10062193","url":null,"abstract":"The management of water resources has always been important for the sustainability of our society and economy. This need has been further increased by climate change in recent years that, among other effects, has led to an increase in extreme events, such as prolonged droughts, severe storms, hurricanes, and so on. It is therefore urgent and critical to develop new and more sophisticated tools and methodologies to observe and possibly predict fundamental water processes. Internet of Things and machine learning can provide a significant contribution to this end, which requires bridging the gap that still exists between the communities of hydrologists, data scientists, and communications engineers. This article aims to help fill such a gap by introducing engineers to the challenges of hydrology, and reviewing existing solutions proposed in the literature to such challenges. Some results obtained from empirical data sets are used to illustrate the main concepts and corroborate the theoretical discussion with some practical examples. Finally, open problems and possible avenues for future research are discussed.","PeriodicalId":380263,"journal":{"name":"2023 18th Wireless On-Demand Network Systems and Services Conference (WONS)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126208766","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}
da Fonseca, M. Mir, Borja Genovés Guzmán, D. Giustiniano
{"title":"Visible light or infrared? Modulating LiFi for dual operation in the visible and infrared spectra","authors":"da Fonseca, M. Mir, Borja Genovés Guzmán, D. Giustiniano","doi":"10.23919/WONS57325.2023.10061923","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/WONS57325.2023.10061923","url":null,"abstract":"Light-Fidelity (LiFi) has emerged in the last few years as a promising technology for alleviating the stringent demand of wireless data services. Prior works have considered LiFi operating either in the visible light or infrared spectrum. Each spectrum band has its own advantages: visible light allows leveraging existing infrastructure for communication, while infrared is not affected by degradation in presence of light dimming. In this work, we propose a modulation scheme that efficiently uses both spectra, and present a simple, low cost, yet efficient modulation technique that retains the benefits of both bands. We prototype our solution by creating an extended version of OpenVLC, and we experimentally show its robust performance in communication under different dimming conditions. We make the implemented system publicly available to the research community.","PeriodicalId":380263,"journal":{"name":"2023 18th Wireless On-Demand Network Systems and Services Conference (WONS)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126432052","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}