{"title":"Context information based initial cell search for millimeter wave 5G cellular networks","authors":"Waqas bin Abbas, M. Zorzi","doi":"10.1109/EuCNC.2016.7561015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCNC.2016.7561015","url":null,"abstract":"Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication is envisioned as a cornerstone to fulfill the data rate requirements for fifth generation (5G) cellular networks. In mmWave communication, beamforming is considered as a key technology to combat the high path-loss, and unlike in conventional microwave communication, beamforming may be necessary even during initial access/cell search. Among the proposed beamforming schemes for initial cell search, analog beamforming is a power efficient approach but suffers from its inherent search delay during initial access. In this work, we argue that analog beamforming can still be a viable choice when context information about mmWave base stations (BS) is available at the mobile station (MS). We then study how the performance of analog beamforming degrades in case of angular errors in the available context information. Finally, we present an analog beamforming receiver architecture that uses multiple arrays of Phase Shifters and a single RF chain to combat the effect of angular errors, showing that it can achieve the same performance as hybrid beamforming.","PeriodicalId":416277,"journal":{"name":"2016 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115284519","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}
J. Suárez, I. Vidal, Jaime García-Reinoso, F. Valera, A. Azcorra
{"title":"Exploring the use of RPAs as 5G points of presence","authors":"J. Suárez, I. Vidal, Jaime García-Reinoso, F. Valera, A. Azcorra","doi":"10.1109/EuCNC.2016.7560998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCNC.2016.7560998","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an early exploration and preliminary results on the use of Remotely Piloted Aircrafts (RPA) as 5G points of presence. The use of RPAs in the 5G arena would enable a cost-effective deployment of functions over mobile nodes that could be integrated on demand into the programmable and unified 5G infrastructure, enhancing the capacity of the network to flexibly adapt to the particular service requirements in a geographical area. As a first step, we evaluate the feasibility and the cost, in terms of energy consumption, of using virtualisation techniques over resource-constrained aerial vehicle platforms, as a fundamental software technology in the evolution towards 5G. We complement this evaluation presenting a proof-of-concept that considers the use of these platforms to enable real-time 5G communications in emergency cases.","PeriodicalId":416277,"journal":{"name":"2016 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC)","volume":"123 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123216256","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 multi-service oriented multiple-access scheme for next-generation mobile networks","authors":"N. Ksairi, S. Tomasin, M. Debbah","doi":"10.1109/EuCNC.2016.7561062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCNC.2016.7561062","url":null,"abstract":"One of the key requirements for fifth-generation (5G) cellular networks is their ability to handle densely connected devices with different quality of service (QoS) requirements. In this article, we present multi-service oriented multiple access (MOMA), an integrated access scheme for massive connections with diverse QoS profiles and/or traffic patterns originating from both handheld devices and machine-to-machine (M2M) transmissions. MOMA is based on a) establishing separate classes of users based on relevant criteria that go beyond the simple handheld/M2M split, b) class dependent hierarchical spreading of the data signal and c) a mix of multiuser and single-user detection schemes at the receiver. Practical implementations of the MOMA principle are provided for base stations (BSs) that are equipped with a large number of antenna elements. Finally, it is shown that such a massive-multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) scenario enables the achievement of all the benefits of MOMA even with a simple receiver structure that allows to concentrate the receiver complexity where effectively needed.","PeriodicalId":416277,"journal":{"name":"2016 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127646681","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. Mezzavilla, Sanjay Goyal, S. Panwar, S. Rangan, M. Zorzi
{"title":"An MDP model for optimal handover decisions in mmWave cellular networks","authors":"M. Mezzavilla, Sanjay Goyal, S. Panwar, S. Rangan, M. Zorzi","doi":"10.1109/EuCNC.2016.7561013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCNC.2016.7561013","url":null,"abstract":"The new frontier in cellular networks is harnessing the enormous spectrum available at millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies above 28 GHz. The challenging radio propagation characteristics at these frequencies, and the use of highly directional beamforming, lead to intermittent links between the base station (BS) and the user equipment (UE). In this paper, we revisit the problem of cell selection to maintain an acceptable level of service, despite the underlying intermittent link connectivity typical of mmWave links. We propose a Markov Decision Process (MDP) framework to study the properties and performance of our proposed cell selection strategy, which jointly considers several factors such as dynamic channel load and link quality. We use the Value Iteration Algorithm (VIA) to solve the MDP, and obtain the optimal set of associations. We address the multi user problem through a distributed iterative approach, in which each UE characterizes the evolution of the system based on stationary channel distribution and cell selection statistics of other UEs. Through simulation results, we show that our proposed technique makes judicious handoff choices, thereby providing a significant improvement in the overall network capacity. Further, our technique reduces the total number of handoffs, thus lowering the signaling overhead, while providing a higher quality of service to the UEs.","PeriodicalId":416277,"journal":{"name":"2016 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC)","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126160357","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":"Utility maximization for uplink MU-MIMO: Combining spectral-energy efficiency and fairness","authors":"Lei Deng, W. Zhang, Yun Rui, C. Yeo","doi":"10.1109/EuCNC.2016.7561009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCNC.2016.7561009","url":null,"abstract":"Driven by green communications, energy efficiency (EE) has become a new important criterion for designing wireless communication systems. However, high EE often leads to low spectral efficiency (SE), which spurs the research on EE-SE tradeoff. In this paper, we focus on how to maximize the utility in physical layer for an uplink multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) system, where we will not only consider EE-SE tradeoff in a unified way, but also ensure user fairness. We first formulate the utility maximization problem, but it turns out to be non-convex. By exploiting the structure of this problem, we find a convexization procedure to convert the original non-convex problem into an equivalent convex problem, which has the same global optimum with the original problem. Then, we present a centralized algorithm to solve the utility maximization problem, but it requires the global information of all users. Thus we propose a primal-dual distributed algorithm which consumes a small amount of overhead. Furthermore, we have proved that the distributed algorithm can converge to the global optimum. Finally, the numerical results show that our approach can both capture user diversity for EE-SE tradeoff and ensure user fairness, and they also validate the effectiveness of our primal-dual distributed algorithm.","PeriodicalId":416277,"journal":{"name":"2016 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC)","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116974173","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":"Secret key transmission based on channel reciprocity for secure IoT","authors":"Jinho Choi, J. Ha","doi":"10.1109/EuCNC.2016.7561068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCNC.2016.7561068","url":null,"abstract":"Machine type communications (MTC) play a crucial role in the Internet of Things (IoT) where a number of devices are connected by wireless communications. Unfortunately, wireless communications are prone to various security threats including eavesdropping due to the broadcast nature. In this paper, we propose an approach that can generate a sequence of random numbers for a secret-key in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system. Since the random key is based on channel dependent signature (CDS) and generated without any predetermined sequences, a device can have a unique secret-key in the proposed approach, which suits to MTC for secure communications.","PeriodicalId":416277,"journal":{"name":"2016 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC)","volume":"160 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117340375","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":"Layered reception for heterogeneous traffics from mobile cloud applications","authors":"Jinho Choi","doi":"10.1109/EuCNC.2016.7561069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCNC.2016.7561069","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we consider a new architecture for mobile systems to effectively accommodate mobile cloud computing traffics in conjunction with conventional delay-limited traffics (e.g., voice traffics). It is assumed that small base stations (BSs) do not decode cloud data streams from a user, but forward the received signals from the users to a cloud server (CS), while small BSs are to decode conventional delay-limited data streams. The resulting approach is called layered reception for uplink transmissions as decoding takes place in different layers. For a dense deployment of small BSs, we can exploit a macro-diversity gain. For the power allocation, we derive a closed-form expression for the outage probability of delay-limited traffics over a block-fading channel. The impact of the macro-diversity gain on the performances has also be shown by the outage probability analysis.","PeriodicalId":416277,"journal":{"name":"2016 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC)","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132569032","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}