S. Soursos, Ivana Podnar Žarko, Patrick Zwickl, I. Gojmerac, G. Bianchi, G. Carrozzo
{"title":"Towards the cross-domain interoperability of IoT platforms","authors":"S. Soursos, Ivana Podnar Žarko, Patrick Zwickl, I. Gojmerac, G. Bianchi, G. Carrozzo","doi":"10.1109/EuCNC.2016.7561070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCNC.2016.7561070","url":null,"abstract":"The Internet of Things is evolving around a plethora of vertical platforms, each specifically suited to a given scenario and often adopting proprietary communications, device and resource control protocols. The emerging need for cross-domain IoT applications and services highlights the necessity of interoperability across IoT platforms for a unified and secure sharing of and access to sensing/actuating resources. This position paper describes the current state of the IoT landscape, the opportunities that appear towards its sustainable evolution as well as the challenges that need to be addressed. In this context, the vision and objectives of the H2020 symbIoTe project are also presented; symbIoTe aims at the interoperability of IoT platforms by offering a flexible interoperability framework that will allow i) vertical IoT platforms to cooperate, ii) collaborative IoT platforms to form IoT-platform federations for exchange of resources and iii) independent developers to create innovative and cross-domain applications.","PeriodicalId":416277,"journal":{"name":"2016 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC)","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124857241","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 D2D communication for collaborative wearable sensor networks: A connectivity analysis","authors":"G. Steri, G. Baldini, L. Goratti","doi":"10.1109/EuCNC.2016.7561071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCNC.2016.7561071","url":null,"abstract":"While the demand for wearable sensor devices is going to rise significantly in the near future, Long Term Evolution (LTE) chips are becoming progressively less expensive and rich in functionalities, suggesting for a strong integration between these two technologies. Moreover, the introduction of the Device-to-Device (D2D) feature in LTE envisages direct communication for basically any kind of device, and wearable sensors can be one of those. In this way, collaborative applications based on wearable sensors would benefit from the extended range and higher throughput offered by LTE. However, when sensor devices achieve cellular coverage, security of direct links and of wearable applications become crucial. In particular, especially in critical and emergency scenarios, direct connectivity has to be guaranteed to all the nodes. Starting from this requirement and using a secure LTE D2D protocol, in this paper we provide the analytical and simulation results in terms of achievable connectivity for a possible deployment of a LTE-enabled collaborative wearable network for emergency or extreme sport applications.","PeriodicalId":416277,"journal":{"name":"2016 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117051432","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}
István Ketykó, Laszlo Kecskes, Csaba Nemes, L. Farkas
{"title":"Multi-user computation offloading as Multiple Knapsack Problem for 5G Mobile Edge Computing","authors":"István Ketykó, Laszlo Kecskes, Csaba Nemes, L. Farkas","doi":"10.1109/EuCNC.2016.7561037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCNC.2016.7561037","url":null,"abstract":"We present an overview of NP-hard problems and methods related to deployment, resource sharing, load balancing and fairness among multiple users in 5G mobile networks. We provide a general model of the system considering the E2E computational latency of Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) applications. An evaluation of a multi-user MEC offloading model reducible to the Multiple Knapsack Problem (MKP) is performed. We study the behaviour of an exact and a heuristic algorithm. We also show the performance results of these in a real-life small-cell deployment scenario.","PeriodicalId":416277,"journal":{"name":"2016 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121240361","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":"oneM2M architecture based IoT framework for mobile crowd sensing in smart cities","authors":"S. K. Datta, Rui Costa, C. Bonnet, Jérôme Härri","doi":"10.1109/EuCNC.2016.7561026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCNC.2016.7561026","url":null,"abstract":"The futuristic smart cities must have the capabilities to withstand the growing challenges on the urban infrastructure in terms of public safety, resource management, co-operative mobility management and more. To tackle these challenges, the cities are increasingly using next generation information and communication technologies (ICT). A plethora of the ICT based innovations are taking place on a wide range of domains - (i) cloud and mobile edge computing, (ii) sensing and actuation, (iii) low power communication, (iv) mobile crowd sensing and (v) big data analysis. These can be united under the umbrella of IoT and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Communications. This paper introduces an efficient MCS enabled IoT framework for the smart cities. Co-operative crowd sensing coupled with a data centric approach can provide a uniform mechanism to mitigate many challenges faced by the smart cities. We also discuss integration of the mentioned IoT framework into oneM2M standard architecture. The three main contributions of the work are - (i) inclusion of a power aware mobile application development framework making crowd sensing applications context aware and (ii) a data driven approach for co-operative crowd sensing that creates actionable intelligence from raw data and (iii) deployment capabilities at cloud and edge computing platforms.","PeriodicalId":416277,"journal":{"name":"2016 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC)","volume":"12 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124379318","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}
C. Paoloni, F. Magne, F. André, V. Krozer, R. Letizia, Marc Marilier, A. Ramírez, M. Rocchi, R. Vilar, R. Zimmerman
{"title":"Millimeter wave wireless system based on point to multipoint transmissions","authors":"C. Paoloni, F. Magne, F. André, V. Krozer, R. Letizia, Marc Marilier, A. Ramírez, M. Rocchi, R. Vilar, R. Zimmerman","doi":"10.1109/EuCNC.2016.7561014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCNC.2016.7561014","url":null,"abstract":"The continuously growing traffic demand has motivated the exploration of underutilized millimeter wave frequency spectrum for future mobile broadband communication networks. Research activities focus mainly on the use of the V-band (59 - 64 GHz) and E-band (71 - 76 & 81 - 84 GHz) to offer multi-gigabit point to point transmissions. This paper describes an innovative W-band (92-95 GHz) point to multipoint wireless network for high capacity access and backhaul applications. Point to multipoint wireless networks suffer from limited RF power available. The proposed network is based on a high power, wide band traveling wave tube of new generation and an affordable high performance transceiver. These new devices enable a new transmission paradigm and overcome the relevant technological challenges imposed by the high atmosphere attenuation and the presently lack of power amplification required to provide adequate coverage at millimeter waves.","PeriodicalId":416277,"journal":{"name":"2016 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130514360","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 heuristic approach towards minimizing resource allocation for femto base station deployment","authors":"A. Kundu, S. Majumder, I. S. Misra, S. Sanyal","doi":"10.1109/EuCNC.2016.7561057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCNC.2016.7561057","url":null,"abstract":"Recent research proposes co-channel Femto Base Stations (coFBSs) as probable solution to dead-zone problem. However, random coFBS deployment causes unwanted interference, and degrades Quality of Service (QoS) of users. Hence, coFBS placement needs rigorous planning. In this work, the coFBS Placement Problem (FBSPP) is proved to be NP-hard. To solve FBSPP, GSM, a greedy heuristic and PSOM, a Swarm Optimization approach, are then proposed. The target is to maximize coverage of a given region by optimal coFBS deployment. Coverage is a function of Received Signal Strength and interference experienced by the end users. Results have been compared with the Exhaustive Search Method (ESM). Simulation results exhibit that both PSOM and ESM provide 100% accurate solution. Compared to GSM, PSOM provides more accurate solutions but needs notably higher computation time. The computational demand for ESM turns out to be very high and is difficult to run even for moderate sized instances.","PeriodicalId":416277,"journal":{"name":"2016 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115663511","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}
Shangbin Wu, Yue Wang, Mohammed Al-Imari, M. Nekovee
{"title":"Frequency and quadrature amplitude modulation for 5G networks","authors":"Shangbin Wu, Yue Wang, Mohammed Al-Imari, M. Nekovee","doi":"10.1109/EuCNC.2016.7560993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCNC.2016.7560993","url":null,"abstract":"The emerging fifth generation (5G) wireless access network, aiming at providing ubiquitous and high data rate connectivity, is envisaged to deploy large number of base stations with higher density and smaller sizes, where inter-cell interference (ICI) becomes a critical problem. Frequency quadrature amplitude modulation (FQAM) has been shown to reduce the ICI at the cell edge therefore achieve a higher transmission rate for cell edge users. This paper investigates the detection of FQAM symbols and noise plus ICI in a multi-cell FQAM communication network. Turbo-coded bit error rate (BER) and frame error rate (FER) of multi-cell FQAM are studied. Also, the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of signal to noise plus interference (SINR) of multi-cell FQAM is computed using stochastic geometry. It is demonstrated via simulations FQAM outperforms quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) in BER and FER when ICI is significant. Furthermore, FQAM can achieve better SINR than QAM.","PeriodicalId":416277,"journal":{"name":"2016 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC)","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116599027","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}
I. D. Silva, G. Mildh, A. Kaloxylos, P. Spapis, E. Buracchini, A. Trogolo, G. Zimmermann, N. Bayer
{"title":"Impact of network slicing on 5G Radio Access Networks","authors":"I. D. Silva, G. Mildh, A. Kaloxylos, P. Spapis, E. Buracchini, A. Trogolo, G. Zimmermann, N. Bayer","doi":"10.1109/EuCNC.2016.7561023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCNC.2016.7561023","url":null,"abstract":"Network slicing addresses the deployment of multiple logical networks as independent business operations on a common physical infrastructure. The concept has initially been proposed for the 5th Generation (5G) core network (CN) however, it has not been investigated yet what network slicing would represent to the design of the 5G radio access network (RAN). The paper explains how network slicing may impact several aspects of the 5G RAN design such as the protocol architecture, the design of network functions (NFs) and the management framework that needs to support both the management of the infrastructure to be shared among the slices and the slice operation.","PeriodicalId":416277,"journal":{"name":"2016 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123519453","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":"Regenerative relaying in energy harvesting cognitive radio networks","authors":"Tarun Kalluri, V. Bohara","doi":"10.1109/EuCNC.2016.7561010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCNC.2016.7561010","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper a cognitive radio network is considered where a licensed primary user and an energy harvesting secondary (cognitive) user co-exist, and relaying protocols are proposed where the cognitive user acts as a relay for the primary signal in return for spectrum access. We analyze two relaying paradigms, namely, time-splitting cooperative spectrum sharing (TS-CSS) relaying and power sharing cooperative spectrum sharing (PS-CSS) relaying and derive closed form expressions for the outage probabilities of both the users, assuming dual-hop decode and forward relaying under Nakagami-m fading model. Furthermore, it has been showed from obtained results that PS-CSS protocol outperforms TS-CSS protocol over a wide range of Signal to Noise ratio (SNRs).","PeriodicalId":416277,"journal":{"name":"2016 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116814448","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}
S. Elayoubi, M. Fallgren, P. Spapis, G. Zimmermann, David Martín-Sacristán, Changqing Yang, Sebastien Jeux, Patrick Agyapong, L. Campoy, Y. Qi, Shubhranshu Singh
{"title":"5G service requirements and operational use cases: Analysis and METIS II vision","authors":"S. Elayoubi, M. Fallgren, P. Spapis, G. Zimmermann, David Martín-Sacristán, Changqing Yang, Sebastien Jeux, Patrick Agyapong, L. Campoy, Y. Qi, Shubhranshu Singh","doi":"10.1109/EuCNC.2016.7561024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCNC.2016.7561024","url":null,"abstract":"One of the objectives of METIS-II project is to facilitate discussion on scenarios, use cases, KPIs and requirements for 5G, building upon the comprehensive work conducted in the METIS-I project and taking the work of other European projects as well as other bodies such as ITU-R, NGMN, etc. into account. This paper analyses the landscape of 5G use cases and presents METIS-II 5G use cases that cover the main 5G services, have stringent requirements and whose technical solutions are expected to serve other similar use cases as well. It also links these use cases to the business cases defined by 5G PPP so that requirements of vertical industries can be taken into account when designing the 5G Radio Access Network (RAN).","PeriodicalId":416277,"journal":{"name":"2016 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC)","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121721616","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}