Boris Shishkin, Doug Pfeil, D. Nguyen, Kevin Wanuga, James Chacko, Jeremy R. Johnson, Nagarajan Kandasamy, T. Kurzweg, K. Dandekar
{"title":"SDC testbed: Software defined communications testbed for wireless radio and optical networking","authors":"Boris Shishkin, Doug Pfeil, D. Nguyen, Kevin Wanuga, James Chacko, Jeremy R. Johnson, Nagarajan Kandasamy, T. Kurzweg, K. Dandekar","doi":"10.1109/WIOPT.2011.5930031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WIOPT.2011.5930031","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the development of a new Software Defined Communications (SDC) testbed architecture. SDC aims to generalize the area of software defined radio to include propagation media not exclusively limited to radio frequencies (optical, ultrasonic, etc.). This SDC platform leverages existing and custom hardware in combination with reference software applications in order to provide a complete research and development platform. This platform can be used to implement current and future standards that make use of highly demanding communications techniques, including ultrawideband (UWB) radio and free-space optical communications. This paper describes the commercial and custom hardware that is being integrated into the platform, including the baseband hardware and the modular transceiver frontends. Furthermore, the paper describes the software development currently in progress with this platform, including the integration of available open source designs into the platform, and the development of custom IP for scalable OFDM PHY implementations in radio and optical communications. We seek to create a complete research platform for the commercial and academic wireless communities, capable of delivering the highest possible performance and flexibility while providing the necessary development tools and reference designs in order to minimize system learning curve and development cost.","PeriodicalId":430755,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Symposium of Modeling and Optimization of Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks","volume":"13 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116647939","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":"Broadcasting with a battery limited energy harvesting rechargeable transmitter","authors":"Omur Ozel, Jing Yang, S. Ulukus","doi":"10.1109/WIOPT.2011.5930017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WIOPT.2011.5930017","url":null,"abstract":"We consider the minimization of the transmission completion time with a battery limited energy harvesting transmitter in a two-user AWGN broadcast channel. The transmitter has fixed number of packets for each receiver and energy is modeled to arrive (be harvested) at the transmitter at random instants. The battery at the transmitter has a finite storage capacity, hence energy may overflow without being utilized for data transmission. We derive the optimal offline transmission policy that minimizes the time by which all of the data packets are delivered to their respective destinations. We analyze the structural properties of the optimal transmission policy using a dual problem. We find the optimal total transmit power sequence by a directional water-filling algorithm. We prove that there exists a cut-off power level such that if the allocated power is lower than this level, then only the stronger user is served in that epoch; otherwise, the power above this level is allocated to the weaker user. Based on these properties, we propose an algorithm that gives the globally optimal offline policy. The proposed algorithm uses directional water-filling repetitively.","PeriodicalId":430755,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Symposium of Modeling and Optimization of Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114650796","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":"FPGA based 802.11n MIMO interoperability testbed","authors":"Curtis K. Donahue, N. Kirsch","doi":"10.1109/WIOPT.2011.5930047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WIOPT.2011.5930047","url":null,"abstract":"IEEE 802.11n is the most recent amendment to the modern wireless technology commonly known as Wi-Fi [1]; it builds upon previous 802.11 standards by defining new physical layer (PHY) and media access control (MAC) sublayer features. The most notable improvement of 802.11n is a maximum data rate of up to 600 Mbps, due to new high-throughput (HT) features including multiple-in multiple-out (MIMO), beamforming, and doubling channel bandwidth to 40 MHz [2].","PeriodicalId":430755,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Symposium of Modeling and Optimization of Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks","volume":"116 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128247905","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":"Improved delay-minimized data harvesting with mobile elements in wireless sensor networks","authors":"Reza Moazzez Estanjini, I. Paschalidis","doi":"10.1109/WIOPT.2011.5930064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WIOPT.2011.5930064","url":null,"abstract":"Using mobile elements as mechanical carriers of data has been shown to be an effective way of prolonging sensor network lifetime and of relaying data in partitioned networks. The existing literature has mostly focused on designing delay minimizing routes for the mobile elements by leveraging variants of the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP). We show that TSP-based routes can in fact result in data delivery delay arbitrarily worse than that of the optimal solution. The main insight is that as the data generation rates of sensors may vary, some sensors need to be visited more frequently than others. To that end, we consider a network with a single sink and develop a Path Splitter algorithm that “splits” a TSP-based route into several loops intersecting at the sink. Numerical results show that our algorithm can improve average delay by more than 40% in some instances while requiring a modest computational effort to modify the TSP-based route.","PeriodicalId":430755,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Symposium of Modeling and Optimization of Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131497597","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 source transmission with time-varying side information","authors":"Iñaki Estella Aguerri, Deniz Gündüz","doi":"10.1109/WIOPT.2011.5930043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WIOPT.2011.5930043","url":null,"abstract":"Many applications in wireless networks require the transmission of an analog source over a fading channel to be reconstructed with the minimum distortion possible, i.e. multimedia signals over cellular networks or the accumulation of local measurements at a fusion center in sensor networks. In many practical scenarios, the destination receives additional correlated side information either form other transmitters in the network or through its own sensing devices. For example, signals from repeaters in digital TV broadcasting or relay signals in future mobile networks. However, similar to the channel state information at the transmitter, it is costly to provide an estimate of the available source side information to the transmitter.","PeriodicalId":430755,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Symposium of Modeling and Optimization of Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133098764","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":"On optimal dynamic scheduling for sum-queue minimization in trees","authors":"S. Hariharan, N. Shroff","doi":"10.1109/WIOPT.2011.5930003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WIOPT.2011.5930003","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate the problem of minimizing the sum of the queues of all the nodes in a wireless network with a tree topology. Nodes send their packets to the tree's root (sink). We consider a time-slotted system, and a primary interference model. We first consider the case where the root has only one child while the rest of the tree is arbitrary, and provide a causal sample-path delay optimal scheduling policy, i.e., at each time slot, for any traffic arrival pattern, the sum of the queues of all the nodes is minimum among all policies. We are able to fully characterize tree structures for which such policies exist. In particular, when the root has multiple children, there exists a causal sample-path delay optimal policy as long as only one child is not a leaf node. We also show that for any other tree structure there exists no causal sample-path delay optimal policy, thus underscoring the inherent limitation of using sample-path optimality as a performance metric and implying that other weaker metrics of delay performance should be investigated.","PeriodicalId":430755,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Symposium of Modeling and Optimization of Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122296743","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":"Downlink femto-to-macro interference management based on Fuzzy Q-Learning","authors":"Ana Galindo-Serrano, L. Giupponi","doi":"10.1109/WIOPT.2011.5930054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WIOPT.2011.5930054","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a distributed solution for resource allocation in femtocell systems in order to control the downlink femto-to-macro aggregated interference. We propose a solution based on intelligent and self-organized femtocells implementing a decentralized Fuzzy Q-Learning (FQL), which with respect to other realtime multiagent Reinforcement Learning (RL) techniques allows to generalize the state space and to generate continuous actions, besides significantly speeding up the learning process. In particular, we propose a novel scheme able to maintain interference at the macrocell users below a threshold and at the same maximize the femtocells capacity, which was not considered by previous works of the same authors. We evaluate the FQL paradigm in the context of a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) compliant Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) femtocell network.","PeriodicalId":430755,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Symposium of Modeling and Optimization of Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123324277","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":"Analysis of the influence of OFDM sidelobe interference on Femto rich systems","authors":"Zhao Zhao, Christoph Thein, Feng Zheng, T. Kaiser","doi":"10.1109/WIOPT.2011.5930061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WIOPT.2011.5930061","url":null,"abstract":"This paper considers the existence of sidelobe emission in OFDM based rich-Femtocell systems. By modeling the interference from the arbitrary-distributed Femtocells as shot-noise process, the paper analyzes the effect of sidelobe interference on the system performance metrics such as transmission capacity (TC) and area spectral efficiency (ASE). The numerical results calculated for three different OFDM schemes show that, under the circumstance of very high Femto deployment intensity, the rigorous constraints on first-tier, namely the Macrocell outage probability and the reduction of first-tier ASE, prohibit the Femtocells from excessive subband access. Thus the out-of-band emissions contribute significantly to the system performance loss. Further analysis has shown that poor channel condition can even worsen the situation, making the existence of sidelobe interference not ignorable. Among the three schemes, OQAM-OFDM is proved to achieve the best performance. Although OQAM-OFDM has higher requirements of implementation, it is reasonable to be considered as one of the candidate transmission schemes for future Femtocell applications.","PeriodicalId":430755,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Symposium of Modeling and Optimization of Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks","volume":"162 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124534416","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":"Planning and control of LTE femto networks","authors":"R. Lau, T. Zhang","doi":"10.1109/WIOPT.2011.5930057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WIOPT.2011.5930057","url":null,"abstract":"Adaptation of LTE femtocell transmission power levels in a distributed architecture to meet performance requirements is crucial for successful femtocell network deployment. System stability, scalability, robustness, and controllability must be addressed before large scale deployment. This paper proposes and analyzes a new method for dynamically adjusting LTE femtocell power levels to mitigate interference to meet user selectable network performance goals. The paper proves that the proposed method converges to feasible solutions. The proposed algorithm is suitable for both distributed femtocell control and centralized policy enforcement.","PeriodicalId":430755,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Symposium of Modeling and Optimization of Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134492933","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":"Spatial reuse and fairness of mobile ad-hoc networks with channel-aware CSMA protocols","authors":"Yuchul Kim, F. Baccelli, G. Veciana","doi":"10.1109/WIOPT.2011.5930041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WIOPT.2011.5930041","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate the benefits of channel-aware (opportunistic) scheduling of transmissions in ad-hoc networks. The key challenge in optimizing the performance of such systems is finding a good compromise among three interdependent quantities, the density and channel quality of the scheduled transmitters, and the resulting interference at receivers. We propose two new channel-aware slotted CSMA protocols: opportunistic CSMA (O-CSMA) and quantile-based CSMA (QT-CSMA) and develop stochastic geometric models allowing us to quantify their performance in terms of spatial reuse and spatial fairness. When properly optimized these protocols offer substantial improvements in terms of both of these metrics relative to CSMA — particularly when the density of nodes is moderate to high. Moreover, we show that a simple version of QT-CSMA can achieve robust performance gains without requiring careful parameter optimization. The paper supports the case that the benefits associated with channel-aware scheduling in ad hoc networks, as in centralized base station scenarios, might far outweigh the associated overhead, and this can be done robustly using a QT-CSMA like protocol.","PeriodicalId":430755,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Symposium of Modeling and Optimization of Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122554152","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}