{"title":"SDN-based Wireless Access Networks Utilising BBR TCP Congestion Control","authors":"Hoang Do, M. Gregory, Shuo Li","doi":"10.1109/ITNAC46935.2019.9078015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITNAC46935.2019.9078015","url":null,"abstract":"Bottleneck Bandwidth and Round-trip propagation time (BBR) is a novel TCP congestion control algorithm developed for transport networking. This paper analyses Software Defined Networking (SDN) based wireless access networks that leverage the BBR TCP congestion control algorithm. A comparison of TCP performance over wireless access networks that utilise either conventional CUBIC TCP congestion control or BBR is provided. A SDN-based jitter minimization method for wireless links is proposed to achieve higher data throughput.","PeriodicalId":407514,"journal":{"name":"2019 29th International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124763811","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":"Demystifying LoRa WAN Security and Capacity","authors":"Michael Santamaria, Alan Marchiori","doi":"10.1109/ITNAC46935.2019.9077997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITNAC46935.2019.9077997","url":null,"abstract":"LoRa and LoRaWAN are developing technologies that are meant as a way to implement a Low Power Wide Area Network which allows devices to communicate. This technology is being used to develop Internet of Things solutions for cutting edge applications such as smart farming, metering, and cities. Since this technology promises to be widespread and greatly used in the future it is very important that the security and capacity of the system is ensured. To this end, a large amount of research has been done looking into potential security threats to LoRa solutions, and how to protect against these vulnerabilities. Additionally, LoRa networks are meant to handle a high capacity of devices to provide coverage for urban areas. In such environments, it is important to know the practical capacity of the network. The goal of our paper is to collect this information and present it in a way that helps developers assess and optimize LoRaWAN deployments.","PeriodicalId":407514,"journal":{"name":"2019 29th International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC)","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116599751","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":"Early Warning System with Real Time Tilt Monitoring","authors":"Baden Parr, Daniel Konings, Mathew Legg, F. Alam","doi":"10.1109/ITNAC46935.2019.9077949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITNAC46935.2019.9077949","url":null,"abstract":"Remote sensing is becoming popular for real time monitoring of a wide variety of objects and phenomena like assets, structural health, ambient air quality. This paper reports the real-world implementation of a remote sensor system that was employed to monitor the stability of a seawall during repair work using cost effective tilt sensors. The system consisted of custom made remote sensing nodes, providing measurements in real time to a robust backend server that presented the data in the form of an interactive web application. An accelerometer paired with a Wi-Fi chip was sealed in a weatherproof casing to construct the tilt sensors and the data was transmitted back to the server over 4G cellular network for processing. To ensure a quick response should sudden movement be detected, SMS text messages could be dispatched to all parties involved. Four pairs of remote sensors were deployed, each capable of real time monitoring of the wall's angle of inclination to an accuracy of ±0.05°.","PeriodicalId":407514,"journal":{"name":"2019 29th International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124651637","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":"Development of a Supply Chain Product Monitoring Network","authors":"D. Wells, F. Alam, Yi Chen, R. Abbel, K. Parker","doi":"10.1109/ITNAC46935.2019.9078012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITNAC46935.2019.9078012","url":null,"abstract":"With world exports of agricultural products increasing by an average of 5% per annum, there is a critical need for systems capable of actively monitoring such perishables during exportation. Existing systems to monitor the condition of products typically do not actively track over the entire supply chain. This paper describes the development and the experimental trialing of an active monitoring system that is able to monitor any damage or extreme conditions imposed on products during their journey by measuring various parameters including temperature, humidity and mechanical shock. The system integrates GPS, ZigBee and cellular technologies in order to send the sensor and positional data from a pallet in transit to a front-end user interface. The design is flexible enough to incorporate more energy efficient alternatives like Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) to the utilized cellular technology.","PeriodicalId":407514,"journal":{"name":"2019 29th International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC)","volume":"255 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123601766","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}
Anh Tuyen Le, Le Chung Tran, Xiaojing Huang, Y. J. Guo
{"title":"Analog Least Mean Square Loop for Self-Interference Cancellation: Implementation and Measurements","authors":"Anh Tuyen Le, Le Chung Tran, Xiaojing Huang, Y. J. Guo","doi":"10.1109/ITNAC46935.2019.9077993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITNAC46935.2019.9077993","url":null,"abstract":"Analog least mean square (ALMS) loop is a simple and efficient adaptive filter to cancel self-interference (SI) in inband full-duplex (IBFD) radios. This paper proposes a practical structure and presents an implementation of the ALMS loop. By employing off-the-shelf components, a prototype of the ALMS loop including two taps is implemented. The prototype is evaluated in IBFD systems which have 20 MHz and 50 MHz bandwidths, respectively, with the carrier frequency of 2.4 GHz. The performance of the prototype with different roll-off factors of the transmit pulse shaping filter is also examined. Experimental results show that the ALMS loop can provide 39 dB and 33 dB of SI cancellation for the two systems, respectively. Furthermore, when the roll-off factor of the pulse shaping filter changes, different levels of cancellation given by the prototype are also demonstrated accordingly. These experimental results validate the theoretical analyses presented in our previous publications on the AT, MS loop behaviors.","PeriodicalId":407514,"journal":{"name":"2019 29th International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114839037","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":"Leveraging CNN and Transfer Learning for Vision-based Human Activity Recognition","authors":"S. Deep, Xi Zheng","doi":"10.1109/ITNAC46935.2019.9078016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITNAC46935.2019.9078016","url":null,"abstract":"With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), there have been significant advancements in the area of human activity recognition (HAR) in recent years. HAR is applicable to wider application such as elderly care, anomalous behaviour detection and surveillance system. Several machine learning algorithms have been employed to predict the activities performed by the human in an environment. However, traditional machine learning approaches have been outperformed by feature engineering methods which can select an optimal set of features. On the contrary, it is known that deep learning models such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) can extract features and reduce the computational cost automatically. In this paper, we use CNN model to predict human activities from Wiezmann Dataset. Specifically, we employ transfer learning to get deep image features and trained machine learning classifiers. Our experimental results showed the accuracy of 96.95% using VGG-16. Our experimental results also confirmed the high performance of VGG-16 as compared to rest of the applied CNN models.","PeriodicalId":407514,"journal":{"name":"2019 29th International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127741877","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":"Blockchain Enabled Opportunistic Fog-based Radio Access Network: A Position Paper","authors":"Jofina Jijin, Boon-Chong Seet, P. Chong","doi":"10.1109/ITNAC46935.2019.9078013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITNAC46935.2019.9078013","url":null,"abstract":"Fog-based radio access network (F-RAN) have the potential to meet the stringent latency and bandwidth requirements of next-generation mobile networks. However, the current F-RAN is implemented mainly by utilizing dedicated hardware and does not leverage on the available large number of distributed edge devices. This motivated us to recently propose the idea of an opportunistic fog RAN (OF-RAN) which introduces the concept of a virtual fog access points (v-FAP) formed by two or more local edge devices (referred as service nodes), and monitored by physical FAPs (referred to as seed nodes). Some of the challenges arising from having many devices opportunistically deployed to serve client nodes are accessing, forming and managing them. In this paper, we propose to harness blockchain technology for assigning roles and permissions to service nodes and seed nodes in our OF-RAN, and supporting the formation and management of v-FAPs. For this blockchain architecture, the distributed formation and management algorithm (DFMA) is implemented as a script in the smart contract. The blockchain then executes the logic of the smart contract while considering the resources from all service nodes participating in the system. By integrating OF-RAN with blockchain systems and smart contracts, it is possible to provide verifiable automation of physical processes involving different nodes.","PeriodicalId":407514,"journal":{"name":"2019 29th International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC)","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125965044","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 Cloud-Based Traffic Flow Framework for Tactile Internet using SDN and Fog Computing","authors":"Vaibhav Fanibhare, N. Sarkar, A. Al-Anbuky","doi":"10.1109/ITNAC46935.2019.9077956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITNAC46935.2019.9077956","url":null,"abstract":"Tactile Internet (TI) is an emerging area of research which is still in its infancy, and facing many issues and challenges. One of the main challenges in TI is to achieve a round trip time (RTT) or latency of 1ms or less. This RTT consists of transmission time, processing time (operator's end), and acknowledgement time (controlled environment end). In this paper, we first present a system framework of the multilevel structure of cloud units incorporating Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Fog Computing (FC) for TI. We then propose an efficient traffic flow framework that can avoid unnecessary processing and waiting times at each cloud units. The SDN and FC approaches are used to control the traffic flow in the system. As FC-empowered edge nodes, fog nodes (FNs) are placed close to the end-user devices, consequently, the communication paths are reduced and minimised RTT is achieved. The system performance is evaluated by iFogSim simulation. Results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed traffic flow framework than edge, cloud, and cellular networks. The findings reported in this paper provide some insights into Tactile Internet that can help network researchers and engineers to contribute further towards developing the next-generation Internet.","PeriodicalId":407514,"journal":{"name":"2019 29th International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC)","volume":"133 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115832993","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}
Dai-Lun Chiang, JihHsiang Yang, Ziyuan Huang, F. Lai
{"title":"Music Response Based on Real-time Facial Expression Recognition","authors":"Dai-Lun Chiang, JihHsiang Yang, Ziyuan Huang, F. Lai","doi":"10.1109/ITNAC46935.2019.9078004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITNAC46935.2019.9078004","url":null,"abstract":"This research employs information and communication technology (ICT) to develop an App that plays music lists based on emotion. Music can regenerate brain cells and ease emotions, and when users are in a negative mood, the App will automatically play the appropriate music list. Emotions are the results of users' facial expression recorded by camera and predicted by deep learning model. The accuracy of each expression is as follows: 84% for happiness; 83% for surprise; 58% for anger, 55%; sadness and 58% for neutral. The dataset is the public data set fer2013 of the competition held by Kaggle in 2013, and some data are downloaded from the Internet, such as family members who mourned after the earthquake, families of victims of terrorist attacks, and weddings. Coupled with Internet of Things (IoT) technology, this study allows users to ease their emotions through music when they are depressed, so as to avoid any improper transfer of physical or mental suffering.","PeriodicalId":407514,"journal":{"name":"2019 29th International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130808276","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}