Keshav Singh, Ankit Gupta, Meng-Lin Ku, T. Ratnarajah
{"title":"Joint Subcarrier Pairing and Power Allocation for Two-Way Energy-Efficient Relay Networks","authors":"Keshav Singh, Ankit Gupta, Meng-Lin Ku, T. Ratnarajah","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7841938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7841938","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, energy-efficient resource allocation algorithms are investigated to improve the energy efficiency (EE) in two-way multi- carrier amplify-and-forward (AF) relay networks by ensuring the quality-of-service (QoS) and balancing the EE of the user links. We formulate an EE-balancing optimization problem that maximizes the ratio of the spectral efficiency (SE) and the total network power consumption by jointly designing the subcarrier pairing at the relay node and power allocation at all nodes under the total transmit power and QoS constraints, thereby leading to a mixed integer programming problem which turns out to be non-convex. Further, we resolve the problem by a series of convex transformations and propose an iterative EE algorithm to determine the solution through Lagrangian dual decomposition. Moreover, a suboptimal EE algorithm is also investigated with reduced complexity at the cost of acceptable performance degradation. Simulation results validate the performance gain of the proposed algorithms and show the performance tradeoff between EE and SE.","PeriodicalId":425019,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133786320","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":"An Edge Detection Approach to Wideband Temporal Spectrum Sensing","authors":"J. Bruno, B. L. Mark, Z. Tian","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7841584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7841584","url":null,"abstract":"In wideband spectrum sensing, an unlicensed user determines which portions of a given band have been left idle by the licensed users. A historical deficiency of wideband spectrum sensing, the inability to detect signals with low duty cycle, was addressed in a recent paper, where wideband temporal spectrum sensing was introduced. We propose an algorithm for reliable detection of low duty cycle signals in noisy environments. We leverage this recent advance in wideband spectrum sensing, and apply a well-known edge detection algorithm to determine channel boundaries. Numerical results are presented which show performance improvements over the original wideband temporal spectrum sensing algorithm, particularly in low signal-to-noise ratio scenarios.","PeriodicalId":425019,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115408462","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":"MVP: An Efficient Anonymous E-Voting Protocol","authors":"You Zhou, Yian Zhou, Shigang Chen, S. Wu","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7842019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7842019","url":null,"abstract":"Thanks to the Internet, voters can cast their ballots over the electronic voting (E-voting) systems conveniently and efficiently without going to the polling stations. However, existing E- voting protocols suffer from anonymity issues and/or high deployment overhead. In this paper, we design a practical anonymous E-voting protocol (referred to as MVP) based on a novel data collection technique called emph{dual random matrix masking} (DRMM), which guarantees anonymity with low overhead of computation, and achieves the security goals of receipt-freeness, double voting detection, fairness, ballot secrecy, and integrity. Through extensive analyses on correctness, efficiency, and security properties, we demonstrate our proposed MVP protocol can be applied to E-voting in a variety of situations with accuracy and anonymity.","PeriodicalId":425019,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124250644","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":"Distributed Control and Communications for Grid Systems","authors":"H. Gharavi, Bin Hu","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7841738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7841738","url":null,"abstract":"A major problem of the grid system is identifying the source of abnormal behaviors. It is particularly important to identify the areas in which the grid system suffers from power deficiencies due to fault or voltage instability. Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) are capable of measuring current and voltage amplitudes and phase angles, which can then be effectively used to monitor the power quality. This would require the support of a communication network to detect regions in the grid that may suffer from voltage instability. In this paper we present a distributed mapping technique that is based on a hierarchical network structure to identify the proximity of the grid instability for any possible remedial control action at the local level. For voltage monitoring, we also develop an average standard deviation measurement technique to access the power quality. We use the IEEE 34 bus grid distribution model and the IEEE 39 bus transmission model to assess the performance of the proposed techniques.","PeriodicalId":425019,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114403076","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":"Opportunistic Feedback Reporting and Scheduling Scheme for Multichannel Wireless Networks","authors":"M. Deghel, M. Assaad, M. Debbah","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7842075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7842075","url":null,"abstract":"This work studies the problems of feedback allocation and scheduling for a multichannel downlink cellular network under limited and delayed feedback. We consider a realistic scenario where a fixed and small number $bar{F}$ of link states can be reported to the base- station (BS) per time-slot. We study the trade- off between knowing at the BS a small number of accurate link states (i.e. that can be reported within one time-slot) and a larger but outdated number of link states (i.e. number of link states $> bar{F}$ that requires more than one slot to be reported). We propose an efficient algorithm that selects the link states that should be reported to the base-station. A novelty here is that this feedback allocation algorithm is performed at the users side. We show that this algorithm combined with the Max-Weight scheduling achieves at least a fraction $eta$ of the stability region achieved under the ideal system (i.e. with full and perfect feedback at no cost). We then provide numerical results that show the best aforementioned trade-off under various system setups.","PeriodicalId":425019,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)","volume":"265 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114565271","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":"Massive MIMO with Nonlinear Amplification: Signal Characterization and Performance Evaluation","authors":"João Guerreiro, R. Dinis, P. Montezuma","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7841975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7841975","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we consider a T times R massive MIMO system with up to R simultaneous links (T>> R>>1) and nonlinear amplifiers in each transmitter branch. The impact of a nonlinear amplification is analytically studied and accurate expressions for the spectral characterization of the transmitted signals, as well as the bit-error-rate (BER) are derived. The accuracy of our analysis is validated by simulations. It is also shown that the nonlinear distortion levels for detection purposes decrease with the ratio T/R, which means that the impact of the nonlinear distortion effects on the system's performance can be alleviated provided that T>>R. Therefore, the combination of massive MIMO systems with nonlinear, highly efficient power amplifiers can be an interesting option for low-cost, broadband wireless systems.","PeriodicalId":425019,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123300596","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}
Xin Ge, Xiuhua Li, Hu Jin, Julian Cheng, Victor C. M. Leung
{"title":"Joint User Association and Scheduling for Load Balancing in Heterogeneous Networks","authors":"Xin Ge, Xiuhua Li, Hu Jin, Julian Cheng, Victor C. M. Leung","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7841943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7841943","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the joint user association (UA) and user scheduling (US) for load balancing in a wireless downlink heterogeneous network by formulating a network-wide utility maximization problem. In order to efficiently solve the problem, we first approximate the original non-convex throughput function to a concave function, and demonstrate that the gap for such approximation approaches zero when the number of users is sufficiently large. Then, a distributed algorithm is further proposed to obtain the UA and US solutions by exploiting the convex optimization technique known as alternating direction method of multipliers. A remarkable feature of the proposed algorithm is that apart from load balancing, multiuser diversity is exploited in the association time to further improve system performance. The simulation results show the superior performance of the proposed algorithm and underscore the significant benefits of jointly exploiting multiuser diversity and load balancing.","PeriodicalId":425019,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)","volume":"628 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123610877","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}
Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem, A. Kammoun, M. Debbah, Mohamed-Slim Alouini
{"title":"Spatial Correlation Characterization of a Full Dimension Massive MIMO System","authors":"Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem, A. Kammoun, M. Debbah, Mohamed-Slim Alouini","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7842281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7842281","url":null,"abstract":"Elevation beamforming and Full Dimension MIMO (FD-MIMO) are currently active areas of research and standardization in 3GPP LTE-Advanced. FD-MIMO utilizes an active antenna array system (AAS), that provides the ability of adaptive electronic beam control over the elevation dimension, resulting in a better system performance as compared to the conventional 2D MIMO systems. FD-MIMO is more advantageous when amalgamated with massive MIMO systems, in that it exploits the additional degrees of freedom offered by a large number of antennas in the elevation. To facilitate the evaluation of these systems, a large effort in 3D channel modeling is needed. This paper aims at providing a summary of the recent 3GPP activity around 3D channel modeling. The 3GPP proposed approach to model antenna radiation pattern is compared with the ITU approach. A closed-form expression is then worked out for the spatial correlation function (SCF) for channels constituted by individual antenna elements in the array by exploiting results on spherical harmonics and Legendre polynomials. The proposed expression can be used to obtain correlation coefficients for any arbitrary 3D propagation environment. Simulation results corroborate and study the derived spatial correlation expression. The results are directly applicable to the analysis of future 5G 3D massive MIMO systems.","PeriodicalId":425019,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)","volume":"8 10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123672152","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":"Congestion Control for Infrastructure-Based CRNs: A Multiple Model Predictive Control Approach","authors":"Kefan Xiao, S. Mao, Jitendra Tugnait","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7841679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7841679","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we investigate the problem of robust congestion control in infrastructure-based cognitive radio networks (CRN). We develop an active queue management (AQM) algorithm, termed MAQ, based on multiple model predictive control (MMPC). The goal is to stabilize the TCP queue at the base station (BS) under disturbances from the varying service capacity for secondary users (SU). The proposed MAQ scheme is validated with extensive simulation studies under various types of background traffic and system/network parameters. It outperforms two benchmark schemes with considerable gains in all the scenarios considered.","PeriodicalId":425019,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117161299","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}
A. Sadasivarao, Dharmendra Naik, C. Liou, Sharfuddin Syed, Anurag Sharma
{"title":"Demystifying SDN for Optical Transport Networks: Real-World Deployments and Insights","authors":"A. Sadasivarao, Dharmendra Naik, C. Liou, Sharfuddin Syed, Anurag Sharma","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7841727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7841727","url":null,"abstract":"We present our observations deploying SDN-enabled solutions in operational Tier-1 carrier networks. This includes technical and operational issues that are of prime importance to service providers. Specifically, we focus on two archetypal customer use cases that we have observed from the point of view of optical transport applications. In addition, other key aspects such as the role of embedded control plane in SDN are discussed. Development models used by service providers and how this plays a crucial/symbiotic role between the vendor (enhancing platform data & control plane features) and the service provider (rolling out SDN-enabled services) are considered. We conclude with a synopsis on the state-of-affairs, and the role of standardization in the SDN ecosystem.","PeriodicalId":425019,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117165641","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}