{"title":"Geo-location-aware emulations for performance evaluation of mobile applications","authors":"Alberto Garcia Estevez, Niklas Carlsson","doi":"10.1109/WONS.2014.6814724","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WONS.2014.6814724","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the design of a simple emulation framework for performance evaluation and testing of mobile applications. Our testbed combines production hardware and software to allow emulation of realistic and repeatable mobility scenarios, in which the mobile user can travel long distances, while being served by an application server. The framework allows (i) geo-location information, (ii) client network conditions such as bandwidth and loss rate, as well as (iii) the application workload to be emulated synchronously. To illustrate the power of the framework we also present the design, proof-of-concept implementation, and evaluation of a geo-smart scheduler for application updates in smartphones. This geo-smart scheduler reduces the average download time by using a network performance map to schedule the downloads when at places with relatively good conditions. Our trace-driven evaluation of the geo-smart scheduler, illustrates the workings of the emulation framework, and the potential of the geo-smart scheduler.","PeriodicalId":386988,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th Annual Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS)","volume":"165 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133542564","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}
Raphaël Frank, Walter Bronzi, G. Castignani, T. Engel
{"title":"Bluetooth Low Energy: An alternative technology for VANET applications","authors":"Raphaël Frank, Walter Bronzi, G. Castignani, T. Engel","doi":"10.1109/WONS.2014.6814729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WONS.2014.6814729","url":null,"abstract":"Vehicles are getting increasingly connected. Several technologies have emerged over the last decade that allow cars to communicate with each other and with the Internet. In this paper we propose to use the new Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) standard as an alternative technology to exchange data between vehicles. By the means of experiments we show that smartphones with BLE radios can be used to send information at low latency from one car to another even while driving. A communication range of up to 100m can be achieved depending on the scenario and environment. Those promising first results are then used as basis for discussion to identify the potential of BLE for different types of vehicular applications.","PeriodicalId":386988,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th Annual Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS)","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130018385","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":"Performance boundaries of massive Floating Car Data offloading","authors":"S. Ancona, Razvan Stanica, M. Fiore","doi":"10.1109/WONS.2014.6814727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WONS.2014.6814727","url":null,"abstract":"Floating Car Data (FCD) consist of information generated by moving vehicles and uploaded to Internet-based control centers for processing and analysis. As upcoming mobile services based on or built for networked vehicles largely rely on uplink transfers of small-sized but high-frequency messages, FCD traffic is expected to become increasingly common in the next few years. Presently, FCD are managed through a traditional cellular network paradigm: however, the scalability of such a model is unclear in the face of massive FCD upload, involving large fractions of the vehicles over short time intervals. In this paper, we explore the use of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication to partially relieve the cellular infrastructure from FCD traffic. Specifically, we study the performance boundaries of such a FCD offloading approach in presence of best- and worst-case data aggregation possibilities at vehicles. We show the gain that can be obtained by offloading FCD via vehicular communication, and propose a simple distributed heuristic that has nearly optimal performance under any FCD aggregation model.","PeriodicalId":386988,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th Annual Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121469665","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":"Less-than-best-effort service for Community Wireless Networks: Challenges at three layers","authors":"M. Welzl, S. Gjessing, Naeem Khademi","doi":"10.1109/WONS.2014.6814737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WONS.2014.6814737","url":null,"abstract":"Community Wireless Networks can be a way to make “Internet access for everyone” possible, by sharing a broadband Internet connection via WLAN. The underlying idea is to freely provide network access to anybody in the vicinity of the wireless access point via a Lower-than-Best-Effort (LBE) service, such that non-paying users interfere as little as possible with the “regular” Internet usage. Such a service faces challenges at various network layers; this paper discusses some of them, focusing on layers 2, 3 and 4.","PeriodicalId":386988,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th Annual Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114592282","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}
Alexandru-Florin Tatar, Tiphaine Phe-Neau, M. Amorim, V. Conan, S. Fdida
{"title":"Beyond contact predictions in mobile opportunistic networks","authors":"Alexandru-Florin Tatar, Tiphaine Phe-Neau, M. Amorim, V. Conan, S. Fdida","doi":"10.1109/WONS.2014.6814723","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WONS.2014.6814723","url":null,"abstract":"When studying and designing protocols for mobile opportunistic networks, most works consider only direct contact patterns between mobile nodes. Tracking these contacts is important for end-to-end communications but relying only on this kind of information provides a limited view about transmission possibilities. Mobile users are often in intercontact, but still separated by only a few hops, which translate into effective communication opportunities between nodes. In this paper, we focus on such a type of communication opportunities and investigate to what extent they can be predicted. Using realworld datasets, we provide evidences about the predictable nature of nodes' proximity and evaluate the benefits of these results compared to direct contact predictions.","PeriodicalId":386988,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th Annual Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS)","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130431768","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. Makris, T. Korakis, Dimitrios Katsaros, L. Tassiulas
{"title":"Enabling ITS real world experimentation in NITOS future Internet facility","authors":"N. Makris, T. Korakis, Dimitrios Katsaros, L. Tassiulas","doi":"10.1109/WONS.2014.6814728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WONS.2014.6814728","url":null,"abstract":"Inter-Vehicle Communication is expected to be widely adopted during the next years by the car industry, enabling Vehicle-to-Vehicle and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure communication targeting at safer commuting. Therefore, the research community have been working towards providing a robust communication solution that will interoperate with existing network infrastructure and will provide an effective way of communicating using location information. One of the proposed solutions is the GeoNetworking protocol, standardized by ETSI, using location based addresses and an IPv6 adaptation sublayer for communicating with the Internet. Several implementations of the protocol exist currently, however most of them are integrated in simulation environments, thus ignoring several factors induced when experimenting under real conditions. In this paper we present our own implementation of an ETSI compliant GeoNetworking protocol and its integration in the NITOS Future Internet facility that enables open and remote access to experimenters on a 24/7 basis. This is the first real implementation in an open wireless testbed, which offers to the research community high diversity in the configuration parameters of their ITS experiments. We further explain our extensions that enable real world testing of our protocol implementation and we finally evaluate our solution in a real large scale wireless setup.","PeriodicalId":386988,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th Annual Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS)","volume":"463 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125821270","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":"LTE offloading: When 3GPP policies are just enough","authors":"F. Malandrino, C. Casetti, C. Chiasserini","doi":"10.1109/WONS.2014.6814715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WONS.2014.6814715","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate the effectiveness of the 3GPP offloading policy framework, called Access Network Discovery Selection Function (ANDSF). We consider geographical areas where both LTE and WiFi are available and present a model describing multi-RAT networks as visible by the operator, as well as the offloading policy rules that apply to them. Our model captures user behavior and allows us to express any 3GPP policy in a compact and convenient way. We use the model to develop a dynamic offloading scheme, which is fully compatible with 3GPP specifications and dynamically adapts to changing traffic patterns. We analyse it in a typical two-tier 3GPP scenario, comparing its performance to those of three alternate offloading strategies. We also investigate the effectiveness for data offloading of the current and proposed features of 3GPP ANDSF.","PeriodicalId":386988,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th Annual Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125586032","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":"How do the dynamics of battery discharge affect sensor lifetime?","authors":"L. Feeney, C. Rohner, Anders Lindgren","doi":"10.1109/WONS.2014.6814721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WONS.2014.6814721","url":null,"abstract":"Evaluation of energy consumption and device lifetime in battery-powered wireless sensor networks (WSN) is almost exclusively based on estimates of the total charge (i.e. mA-h) consumed by the device. In reality, batteries are complex electro-chemical systems and their discharge behavior depends heavily on the timing and intensity of the applied load. However, there is very little empirical data or reliable models available for the kinds of batteries and loads that are typically used in WSN. The effect of battery dynamics on sensor lifetime is therefore not well understood. We characterize CR2032 Li coin cells using carefully controlled synthetic loads and a wide range of WSN-typical load parameters. Our results are the first to quantify in-depth the discharge behavior of primary batteries in the WSN context. We report that in some common cases, observed lifetimes can differ from predicted ones by almost a factor of three. Furthermore, loads with similar average currents - which would be expected to have similar lifetimes - can vary significantly in the amount of capacity they can utilize, with short duration loads generally faring better. The results show that energy evaluation based on a mA-h consumed model has significant limitations. This has important implications for the design and evaluation of WSN applications, as well as for practical problems in network dimensioning and lifetime prediction.","PeriodicalId":386988,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th Annual Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131907753","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}
R. Frigg, Giorgio Corbellini, S. Mangold, T. Gross
{"title":"Acoustic data transmission to collaborating smartphones — An experimental study","authors":"R. Frigg, Giorgio Corbellini, S. Mangold, T. Gross","doi":"10.1109/WONS.2014.6814717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WONS.2014.6814717","url":null,"abstract":"The acoustic capabilities (i.e. microphone) and the fast processors of modern smartphones allow for the transmission of data to groups of such devices through the audio channel. We discuss an acoustic data transmission system for broadcast communication to a multitude of smartphones without the need of a radio access point. Acoustic data transmission is particularly attractive in scenarios that involve sound systems (e.g., movie theaters or open-air film festivals). We discuss different techniques to hide data in sound tracks and how to form a microphone array from a collection of smartphones in the same location. Collaborating smartphones share (using their radio interfaces to form an ad hoc network) the received data streams to jointly correct errors. With a testbed of up to four smartphones, we demonstrate how the robustness and reliability of a downlink broadcast via an acoustic communication system can be improved by collaboration between spatially distributed devices. With field tests in different scenarios, we investigate the potential gain of the collaboration in a real environment.","PeriodicalId":386988,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th Annual Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126082368","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}
M. D. Felice, A. Baiocchi, F. Cuomo, Gaetano Fusco, Chiara Colombaroni
{"title":"Traffic monitoring and incident detection through VANETs","authors":"M. D. Felice, A. Baiocchi, F. Cuomo, Gaetano Fusco, Chiara Colombaroni","doi":"10.1109/WONS.2014.6814732","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WONS.2014.6814732","url":null,"abstract":"Road traffic monitoring is one of the key applications in the Intelligent Transport System field. New technologies are now provided in this field and among the most relevant ones there is the DSRC (Dedicated Short Range Communication) set of protocols and standards where vehicles wirelessly communicate. In this paper, we deal with the application of Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks to road traffic monitoring and we present the design of two distributed protocols based on the DSRC. A realistic simulation of a main expressway in Rome, Italy, is implemented and the performances of the two proposed monitoring methodologies are evaluated in case of regular traffic conditions and in case of a car accident. In both cases the protocols are able to capture in a very quick time (few seconds) the current traffic conditions even on a quite long road of about 70 km. A discussion about the impact of the market penetration rate of the on-board DSRC devices on the protocols performance is also provided.","PeriodicalId":386988,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th Annual Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127217300","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}