Fanny Parzysz, K. Ntontin, K. Kalaboukas, C. Verikoukis
{"title":"Dedicated RF Power Transfer for Wirelessly-Powered Wearable Medical Sensors","authors":"Fanny Parzysz, K. Ntontin, K. Kalaboukas, C. Verikoukis","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7841720","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7841720","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate the possibility of wirelessly charging autonomous wearable sensors for patient health-monitoring through dedicated power transfer from Power Beacons (PB). We propose a novel strategy for transmitting energy beams towards patients, where sensors emit a charging request based on a battery lower threshold and receive energy till the battery reaches an upper threshold. These energy beams are steered towards the patient's smartphone rather than towards the sensor, relieving the need for tracking the PB-sensor channel at only negligible performance loss. Furthermore, as PBs cannot serve all requiring sensors simultaneously, we compare different scheduling algorithms, jointly with the battery thresholds and the energy beam width. For the examined configurations, results show that the energy outage probability is slightly affected by the scheduling policy, and most of the energy is harvested from non-intended beams. We show that the strategy for energy-beam transmission should be adjusted to the sensor location on the human body and the patient's velocity for better performance. Finally, proposing new strategies minimizing the waiting duration can be used as a guideline to reduce the energy outage.","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":"115825158","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}
Md. Zoheb Hassan, Victor C. M. Leung, Md. Jahangir Hossain, Julian Cheng
{"title":"Statistical Delay Aware Joint Power Allocations and Relay Selection for NLOS Multichannel OWC","authors":"Md. Zoheb Hassan, Victor C. M. Leung, Md. Jahangir Hossain, Julian Cheng","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7842296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7842296","url":null,"abstract":"In order to improve the delay quality-of-service aware throughput performance of the optical wireless communications, a joint power allocation and relay selection scheme is proposed for a relay assisted multichannel coherent optical wireless communication system. The proposed joint power allocation and relay selection scheme provides the delay aware quality-of-service guarantee by maximizing the end-to-end effective capacity under the average transmit power constraints at both source as well as relay nodes. The joint power allocation and relay selection problem is formulated as a non-convex and combinatorial optimization problem, and the solution of this optimization problem is obtained using a time-sharing relaxation technique. Subsequently, a fast convergent algorithm is proposed for the joint power allocation and relay selection by considering the delay aware quality-of-service requirements of the services transmitted over the optical wireless communication channels. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed joint power allocation and relay selection scheme provides the strict statistical delay aware quality-of-service with an improved throughput without increasing the transmit power requirements.","PeriodicalId":425019,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)","volume":"132 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":"115889657","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}
Kun Yan, Hsiao-Chun Wu, Hailin Xiao, Xiangli Zhang
{"title":"Explore the Adequate and Concise Information from Communication Signals in Terms of Graphs","authors":"Kun Yan, Hsiao-Chun Wu, Hailin Xiao, Xiangli Zhang","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7841833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7841833","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a novel adequate and concise information extraction approach is explored to provide a promising alternative for manifesting the intrinsic structure of the cyclostationary signals, such as communication signals. A novel graph-based signal representation is proposed to interpret the spectral correlation function into a graph and its adjacency matrix. This graph can represent the proposed adequate and concise information about the communication signals in practice. A typical application, namely modulation classification, can be implemented using our proposed new graph-based approach. According to Monte Carlo simulation results, the proposed graph-based modulation classification method leads to the promising performance in both additive noise channels and difficult multipath fading channels, compared to other existing techniques also using the spectral correlation functions.","PeriodicalId":425019,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)","volume":"117 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":"132209082","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":"Optimizing Resurfacing Schedules to Maximize Value of Information in UWSNs","authors":"F. Khan, S. Khan, D. Turgut, Ladislau Bölöni","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7842108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7842108","url":null,"abstract":"In Underwater Sensor Networks (UWSNs) with high volume of data recording activity, a mobile sink such as a Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) can be used to offload data from the sensor nodes. When the AUV approaches the underwater node, it can use high data rate optical communication. However, the data is not considered delivered when it was transferred from the sensor node to the AUV, but when the AUV had resurfaced and transferred the data to the sink. If the data is not time sensitive, it is sufficient for the AUV to resurface only once at the end of its data collection path. However, for time-sensitive data, it is more advantageous for the AUV to resurface multiple times during its path, and upload the data collected since the previous resurfacing. Thus, a resurfacing schedule needs to complement the path planning process. In this paper we are using the metric of Value of Information (VoI) as the optimization criteria to capture the time- sensitive nature of collected information. We propose a genetic algorithm based approach to determine the resurfacing schedule for an AUV which is already provided with the sequence of nodes to be visited.","PeriodicalId":425019,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)","volume":"41 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":"132240314","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}
D. Spano, Maha Alodeh, S. Chatzinotas, B. Ottersten
{"title":"Per-Antenna Power Minimization in Symbol-Level Precoding","authors":"D. Spano, Maha Alodeh, S. Chatzinotas, B. Ottersten","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7842126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7842126","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the problem of the interference among multiple simultaneous transmissions in the downlink channel of a multi- antenna wireless system. A symbol-level precoding scheme is considered, where the data information is used, along with the channel state information, in order to exploit the multi-user interference and transform it into useful power at the receiver side. In this framework, it is important to consider the power limitations individually for each transmitting antenna, since a common practice in multi-antenna systems is the use of separate per-antenna amplifiers. Thus, herein the problem of per-antenna power minimization in symbol-level precoding is formulated and solved, under Quality-of-Service constraints. In the proposed approach, the precoding design is optimized in order to control the instantaneous power transmitted by the antennas, and more specifically to limit the power peaks, while guaranteeing some specific target signal-to-noise ratios at the receivers. Numerical results are presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed scheme, which outperforms the existing state of the art techniques in terms of reduction of the power peaks and of the peak-to-average power ratio across the transmitting antennas.","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":"132390754","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}
Zhenzhen Jiao, H. Ding, Meimei Dang, Rui Tian, Baoxian Zhang
{"title":"Predictive Big Data Collection in Vehicular Networks: A Software Defined Networking Based Approach","authors":"Zhenzhen Jiao, H. Ding, Meimei Dang, Rui Tian, Baoxian Zhang","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7842165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7842165","url":null,"abstract":"Data collection is key issue in vehicular networks since it is vital for supporting many applications in vehicular environments. With the explosive growth of sensing data in urban area, however, strategies for efficient collection of big data in vehicular networks are still far from being well studied. In this paper, we focus on studying this issue and accordingly propose a Software Defined Vehicular Networks (SDVN) architecture. On this architecture, a predictive data collection algorithm is proposed. In this algorithm, packet delivery is fulfilled by cooperative cellular and ad hoc network interfaces, in which collections of big data always adopts ad hoc based multi-hop relaying whenever applicable to forward packets to Road Side Units (RSUs). Cellular networks are used for data uploading only when no multi-hop relaying opportunity is available. Our proposed SDVN architecture enables such efficient cooperative communications, in which predictive routing decisions are made based on real-time network status other than empirical knowledge. Simulation results demonstrate that our algorithm outperforms existing algorithms in terms of packet delivery ratio and transmit efficiency.","PeriodicalId":425019,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)","volume":"06 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":"130113088","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}
Sunny Dutta, T. Taleb, P. A. Frangoudis, A. Ksentini
{"title":"On-the-Fly QoE-Aware Transcoding in the Mobile Edge","authors":"Sunny Dutta, T. Taleb, P. A. Frangoudis, A. Ksentini","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7842074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7842074","url":null,"abstract":"To enhance video streaming experience for mobile users, we propose an approach towards Quality-of-Experience (QoE) aware on-the-fly transcoding. The proposed approach relies on the concept of Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) as a key enabler in enhancing service quality. Our scheme involves an autonomic creation of a transcoding service as a Virtual Network Function (VNF) and ensures dynamic rate switching of the streamed video to maintain the desirable quality. This edge-assistive transcoding and adaptive streaming results in reduced computational loads and reduced core network traffic. The proposed solution represents a complete miniature content delivery network infrastructure on the edge, ensuring reduced latency and better quality of experience","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":"130926218","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. Rashich, A. Kislitsyn, Dmitrii K. Fadeev, T. Nguyen
{"title":"FFT-Based Trellis Receiver for SEFDM Signals","authors":"A. Rashich, A. Kislitsyn, Dmitrii K. Fadeev, T. Nguyen","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7841841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7841841","url":null,"abstract":"A new FFT-based trellis receiver for multicarrier signals with nonorthogonal frequency spacing (spectrally efficient frequency division multiplexing, SEFDM) is proposed. It is based on FFT and max-log-MAP algorithm, which is adapted to work with frequency samples of received signal. The iterative version of demodulator is also developed. The performance of proposed iterative QPSK-SEFDM demodulation is comparable with the one of classic coded QPSK modulation while the spectral efficiency remains very high. The proposed algorithms can demodulate SEFDM signals with large number of subcarriers.","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":"131113696","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":"Wireless Powered Spatially Correlated MIMO AF Relaying Systems with Energy Beamforming","authors":"Ahmed M. Almradi","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7842390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7842390","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyzes the performance of energy beamforming in spatially correlated multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) relaying systems, where the source and destination nodes are equipped with multiple spatially correlated antennas and communicating via a dual-hop amplify-and-forward (AF) single antenna energy-constrained relay. To maximize the overall harvested energy so as to enable long-distance wireless power transfer, the wirelessly powered relay scavenge energy from the source radio-frequency (RF) signal through energy beamforming, then uses the harvested energy to forward the source message to the destination. To facilitate wireless information and power transfer at the relay, time-switching receiver (TSR) protocol is considered. To this end, tight lower and upper bound expressions for the outage probability and ergodic capacity are derived in closed-form, through which the throughput of the delay-constrained and delay-tolerant transmission modes are investigated, respectively. Numerical results sustained by Monte Carlo simulations show the tightness of the proposed analytical expressions. The impact of various parameters such as energy harvesting ratio, source transmit power, number of antennas and spatial fading correlation on the system throughput is also considered.","PeriodicalId":425019,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)","volume":"165 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":"133561690","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":"User-Centric QoS-Aware Interference Coordination for Ultra Dense Cellular Networks","authors":"Di Qu, Yiqing Zhou, Lin Tian, Jinglin Shi","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7842368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7842368","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the irregular topology of ultra dense cellular network (UDN), base station (BS)-centric methods are usually with low spectrum efficiency and not flexible for quality-of-service (QoS) guaranteeing. This paper investigates the QoS-aware interference coordination in UDN from a user-centric way (UCQA-IC). Targeting at enhancing the spectrum efficiency and user experience with controlled inter-cell-interference (ICI), the basic idea of UCQA-IC is to guarantee a desired signal- to-interference-plus-noise-ratio (SINR) for each mobile station (MS) by avoiding the major ICI and allocate resource with priorities to each MS according to its QoS requirements. The problem can be solved with iterative resource allocation based on graph-coloring algorithms. Simulations are carried out to verify the effectiveness of the UCQA-IC. It is firstly demonstrated that in UDN, the average number of interference BSs for an MS is much less than that for a BS, so it is favorable to use user-centric interference coordination in UDN. Then, it is verified that the proposed UCQA-IC outperforms the existing interference coordination algorithm with improved spectrum efficiency and enhanced user experience. In detail, the spectrum efficiency of UCQA-IC can be about three times as high as that of the comparing scheme. Moreover, using UCQA-IC, the proportion of MSs with their QoS satisfied can be about two times as much as that using the comparing scheme.","PeriodicalId":425019,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)","volume":"50 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":"133591943","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}