Guanxiong Liu, Hazim Shakhatreh, Abdallah Khreishah, Xiwang Guo, N. Ansari
{"title":"Efficient Deployment of UAVs for Maximum Wireless Coverage Using Genetic Algorithm","authors":"Guanxiong Liu, Hazim Shakhatreh, Abdallah Khreishah, Xiwang Guo, N. Ansari","doi":"10.1109/SARNOF.2018.8720417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SARNOF.2018.8720417","url":null,"abstract":"Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are now widely used as backup base stations for the areas which lack of wire-less/cellular access. Since UAV does not depend on fundamental infrastructure, it plays an important role in emergency response and search & rescue. In the prior studies of the UAV-aided wireless coverage extension problem, it typically considers an outdoor scenario with Air-to-Ground path loss model. In this paper, we specify the problem with the use case of UAV-aided emergency rescue. In the new problem formulation, both indoor and outdoor path loss models are considered and the goal is to find an efficient deployment of minimum number of UAVs that guarantees the connection requirements. To solve this problem, we propose a heuristic approach which contains genetic based algorithm to arrange UAVs. During evaluation, our approach is compared with the brute-force search on randomly simulated emergencies. The results show that our approach could find efficient solution with much lower computation.","PeriodicalId":430928,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 39th Sarnoff Symposium","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126854930","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 Pre-Coding Technique to Mitigate PAPR in MIMO-OFDM Systems","authors":"Tahreer Mahmood, S. Mohan","doi":"10.1109/SARNOF.2018.8720453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SARNOF.2018.8720453","url":null,"abstract":"Typically, broadband wireless communication systems employ Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) with Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) systems to yield MIMO-OFDM systems. OFDM serves to convert frequency-selective MIMO channels into equivalent or parallel flat MIMO channels, thus decreasing the complexity at the receiver, while simultaneously helping to attain robust high data rate transmission. One of the key challenges faced by researchers in designing a MIMO-OFDM system is how to mitigate Peak-to-Average-Power Ratio (PAPR). The MIMO-OFDM signal can be displayed as the summation of independent complex variables with adjustable phases. When all the variables become in phase a peak of the summation of amplitudes is formed. This leads to amplification difficulties at the transmitter and to high out-of-band radiation in case of non-linear power amplifiers. The nonlinearity arises mainly because of the large input power range into the nonlinear region of the power amplifier. The literature abounds with methods for mitigating PAPR. This paper suggests a useful model for the relation between the input data and output PAPR, and proposes a pre-coding technique model to redistribute the input data. The results shows that the PAPR reduction capability of the pre-coding technique facilitates the MIMO-OFDM system to perform better with a reduced PAPR. Simulation results with BPSK and QPSK modulations exhibit a reduction in PAPR of around 4 $mathbf{dB}$.","PeriodicalId":430928,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 39th Sarnoff Symposium","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133490929","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}
P. Konstantopoulos, E. Petrakis, Stelios Sotiriadis
{"title":"iNaaS: Indoors Navigation as a Service on the Cloud and Smartphone Application","authors":"P. Konstantopoulos, E. Petrakis, Stelios Sotiriadis","doi":"10.1109/SARNOF.2018.8720502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SARNOF.2018.8720502","url":null,"abstract":"We present iNaaS, an automated indoors navigation system as a cloud service for controlling users navigation and access in large venues (e.g. apartment buildings, shopping malls). The main idea is to install in venues, Bluetooth radio transmitters (beacons) that broadcast their identifier to nearby devices. A mobile application runs on user's smart phone, receives beacon identifiers and is capable of estimating its distance from sensors in range. Encoded information is transmitted to the cloud where computation of the desired route takes place. iNaaS service responds with navigation instructions which are displayed on visitors' mobile devices (e.g, smartphones). No personal information is sent to the cloud. Information management, including user profiles, access rights, permanent storage and data processing takes place on the cloud. iNaaS tracks users movements in buildings and offers prompt response on cases of disoriented users. We run an exhaustive set of experiments using simulated (but realistic) data aiming to evaluate both, iNaaS response time and scalability. The results demonstrate that the system can handle large number of users in real time.","PeriodicalId":430928,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 39th Sarnoff Symposium","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121701371","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":"Performance Analysis for HF Communication with Dominant Noise Source","authors":"Hung-Yi Lo, J. Lehnert, Phuong T. Tran","doi":"10.1109/SARNOF.2018.8720461","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SARNOF.2018.8720461","url":null,"abstract":"The channel model for ionospheric high frequency (HF) communication is examined by modeling the received noise distribution at the antenna as a Kappa distribution because of thermal antiequilibrium in the ionosphere at sunrise. A Kappa approximation of the noise tail probability is provided. The bit error rate (BER) for binary phase-shift keying (BPSK) is then found by using the maximum likelihood decision criterion. Results for other modulation schemes are also investigated. At sunrise, the BER is found to be larger than that predicted by a Gaussian tail.","PeriodicalId":430928,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 39th Sarnoff Symposium","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115299338","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":"Frequency Assignment for JALN HCB","authors":"Peng Wang, B. Henz","doi":"10.1109/SARNOF.2018.8720489","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SARNOF.2018.8720489","url":null,"abstract":"Joint Aerial Layered Network (JALN) could provide crucial communication links when milsatcoms are degraded or lost. Antenna assignment problem for JALN High Capacity Backbone (HCB) has been studied in [1], [2] where each JALN aircraft has four mounting points for directional antennas. Another resource allocation problem arising is that how we can efficiently assign the frequencies to JALN HCB. Two-way traffic through a link is assigned to two disjoint frequency bands. Frequency Division Multiplexing Access (FDMA) is used to share bandwidth and avoid the interference among multiple transceivers on a single aerial platform. Two Frequency Assignment Problems (FAP) are considered in this work, which are called MMC-FAP and MS-FAP. MMC-FAP is to Minimize the frequency usage of the Most Congested aerial platform while accommodating the offered traffic demands and without violating the frequency constraints. MS-FAP is to Minimize the frequency Span in both frequency bands. By exploiting problem-specific properties, MMC-FAP can be formulated as a Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) problem, which has a tight constraint space by explicitly finding all maximal cliques in the conflict graph. Then, binary search strategy is used to find an optimal solution of MS-FAP problem while MMC-FAP occurs as a sub-problem. Numerical experiments are used to show the performance of the proposed approach.","PeriodicalId":430928,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 39th Sarnoff Symposium","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125280937","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}
Pegah Afsharlar, J. Plante, Arash Deylamsalehi, V. Vokkarane
{"title":"Delayed Wavelength Switching and Allocation in Optical Networks","authors":"Pegah Afsharlar, J. Plante, Arash Deylamsalehi, V. Vokkarane","doi":"10.1109/SARNOF.2018.8720491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SARNOF.2018.8720491","url":null,"abstract":"Advanced network engineering is rapidly evolving and providing ever larger levels of communications capacity. This work explores deployed wavelength division modulation (WDM) optical networks and the flexible lightpath scheduling problems. Lightpath switching can improve the performance of routing and wavelength allocation (RWA) in WDM by relaxing the continuity constraint and consequently reducing connection request blocking probability during RWA process. Through extensive simulations, we are able to conclude that our proposed delayed allocation (DA) algorithm with wavelength switching improves resource consumption efficiency and lowers call blocking. We also evaluate demands with limited wavelength switching such that a reasonable result can be specified. This wavelength switching is found to signiflcantly increase the performance improvement of DA.11This work is supported by the NSF CARGONET grant CNS-1406370.","PeriodicalId":430928,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 39th Sarnoff Symposium","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134431499","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":"Network Optimization for Differentiated QoS Traffic in an SDN Environment for PoP-Data Center Traffic","authors":"M. Maswood, Rohit Abhishek, D. Medhi","doi":"10.1109/SARNOF.2018.8720505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SARNOF.2018.8720505","url":null,"abstract":"A major challenge for network providers is to design a network that can cater to differentiated quality-of-service (QoS) for different traffic classes in a cost-effective manner. Traditional differentiated services (“DiffServ”) is for IP networks where differentiation is done in IP packet headers through code points. However, this does not by itself land in architecting a network from a traffic engineering point of view. In an SDN environment, with more control over flows or a collection of flows, differentiated QoS traffic classes can be considered and accordingly a network can be optimized. In this work, we consider network optimization in a software-defined network (SDN) environment where differentiated QoS traffic is provided through different latency bounds. We present a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) formulation for this problem. The study shows that our approach can maintain more stringent QoS requirement by reducing the value of maximum allowable latency without a significant increment in bandwidth cost.","PeriodicalId":430928,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 39th Sarnoff Symposium","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133127059","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":"Co-Scheduling Scientific Workflows in Elastic Optical Networks","authors":"Anisha Joseph, J. Plante, Juzi Zhao, V. Vokkarane","doi":"10.1109/SARNOF.2018.8720474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SARNOF.2018.8720474","url":null,"abstract":"E-science supports inter-disciplinary research that requires processing highly data-intensive workflows. These workflows require compute resources for processing, and storage resources to save data generated on computation. Additionally, there may be a need to make this data available to researchers at distinct and disparate locations, which requires network resources. Current-generation networks cannot scale to meet the demands of tomorrow's unpredictable application workflow scenarios. Elastic Optical Network (EON) is a cutting-edge technology which supports more data and faster data, without the need to construct larger networks. The challenge of joint scheduling of computational, storage and EON network resources to e-science workflows is a complex problem known as co-scheduling. In this paper, heuristics are proposed to investigate sequential and parallel co-scheduling. Simulation results are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approaches.","PeriodicalId":430928,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 39th Sarnoff Symposium","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133317133","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}
Isha Gupta, S. Narasimman, R. S. Reddy, J. Dauwels, A. Ukil
{"title":"Implementation of a Cost Effective Gas Pipeline Monitoring System for Water Ingress Detection","authors":"Isha Gupta, S. Narasimman, R. S. Reddy, J. Dauwels, A. Ukil","doi":"10.1109/SARNOF.2018.8720434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SARNOF.2018.8720434","url":null,"abstract":"In Singapore, most of the pipelines are made of ductile iron, which develops leaks over time that leads to water ingress. Water ingress in low-pressure gas pipelines is a serious problem that can lead to catastrophic consequences. Hence, timely detection of water ingress is important to avert danger. A vibration sensor based detection technique is employed to detect three kinds of anomalies in this paper, which are, individual knock, multiple knocks and water ingress. The paper outlines the development of a wireless pipeline monitoring system at a fraction of the cost of conventional systems to detect water ingress in the gas distribution network. Various IoT technologies such as Bluetooth 5.0, XBee and Sigfox are compared to find the optimal solution in terms of ease of use, device specification and cost of setup.","PeriodicalId":430928,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 39th Sarnoff Symposium","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128510975","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}
Monette H. Khadr, H. Elgala, M. Ayyash, T. Little, Abdallah Khreishah, M. Rahaim
{"title":"Security Aware Spatial Modulation (SA-SM)","authors":"Monette H. Khadr, H. Elgala, M. Ayyash, T. Little, Abdallah Khreishah, M. Rahaim","doi":"10.1109/SARNOF.2018.8720503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SARNOF.2018.8720503","url":null,"abstract":"Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) techniques are currently the de facto approach for increasing the capacity and reliability of communication systems. Spatial modulation (SM) is presently one of the most eminent MIMO techniques. As, it combines the advantages of having higher spectral efficiency than repetition coding (RC) while overcoming the inter-channel interference (ICI) faced by spatial multiplexing (SMP). Moreover, SM reduces system complexity. In this paper, for the first time in literature, the use of MIMO techniques is explored in Internet-of-Things(IoT) deployments by introducing a novel technique called security aware spatial modulation (SA-SM).SA-SM provides a low complexity, secure and spectrally efficient technique that harvests the advantages of SM, while facing the arising security concerns of IoT systems. Using an undemanding modification at the receiver, SA-SM gives an extra degree of technology independent physical layer security. Our results show that SA-SM forces the bit-error-rate (BER) of an eavesdropper to not exceed the range of 10−2, which is below the forward-error-correction (FEC) threshold. Hence, it eradicates the ability of an eavesdropper to properly decode the transmitted signal. Additionally, the efficiency of SA-SM is verified in both the radio and visible light ranges. Furthermore, SA-SM is capable of reducing the peak-to-average-power-ratio (PAPR) by 26.2%.","PeriodicalId":430928,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 39th Sarnoff Symposium","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128070435","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}