{"title":"Stochastic geometry modeling of mmWave cellular networks: Analysis and experimental validation","authors":"Wei Lu, M. Renzo","doi":"10.1109/IWMN.2015.7322991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWMN.2015.7322991","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the increasing interest of the emerging millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency band for application to cellular networks, new flexible and scalable approaches for their modeling, analysis and optimization are needed. Recently, a new approach has been proposed: it is based on the theory of point processes and it leverages tools from stochastic geometry for tractable system-level modeling, performance evaluation and optimization [1]. In the present paper, we investigate the accuracy of this emerging approach for modeling mmWave cellular networks, by explicitly taking realistic base stations locations, buildings footprints, spatial blockages and empirical channel models into account. The databases of base stations locations and buildings footprints are the same as those used in [2] for the analysis of microwave cellular networks. Our study confirms that an abstraction model based on stochastic geometry is capable of providing accurate estimates of the downlink performance of mmWave cellular networks in dense urban environments.","PeriodicalId":440636,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Workshop on Measurements & Networking (M&N)","volume":"4 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129674298","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":"Amplify-and-forward secondary spectrum access in multicarrier cognitive radio systems","authors":"D. Darsena, G. Gelli, F. Verde","doi":"10.1109/IWMN.2015.7322992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWMN.2015.7322992","url":null,"abstract":"Innovative spectrum sharing policies, possibly leveraged by cognitive radio (CR) technologies, are expected to play a significant role in forthcoming 5G systems, employing multicarrier techniques for modulation and multiple-access. In this paper, we propose an opportunistic amplify-and-forward relaying scheme for a multicarrier CR network, where a secondary user (SU) is allowed to share communication resources with a primary user (PU) transmitting with orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) technology. Instead of minimizing the interference to the PU, the SU transmitter relays the received PU signal on the different OFDM subcarriers by using a precoding matrix depending on the symbols that must be delivered to the SU receiver. The information-theoretic capacity of the proposed protocol is assessed, showing that, under mild conditions, the SU can gain a significant data-rate performance, while not degrading (but even improving) the PU performance.","PeriodicalId":440636,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Workshop on Measurements & Networking (M&N)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128230859","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}
Marina Gutiérrez, W. Steiner, R. Dobrin, S. Punnekkat
{"title":"Learning the parameters of periodic traffic based on network measurements","authors":"Marina Gutiérrez, W. Steiner, R. Dobrin, S. Punnekkat","doi":"10.1109/IWMN.2015.7322981","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWMN.2015.7322981","url":null,"abstract":"The configuration of real-time networks is one of the most challenging demands of the Real-Time Internet-of-Things trend, where the network has to be deterministic and yet flexible enough to adapt to changes through its life-cycle. To achieve this we have outlined an approach that learns the necessary configuration parameters from network measurements, that way providing a continuous configuration service for the network. First, the network is monitored to obtain traffic measurements. Then traffic parameters are derived from those measurements. Finally, a new time-triggered schedule is produced with which the network will be reconfigured. In this paper we propose an analysis based on measurements to obtain the specific traffic parameters and we evaluate it through network simulations. The results show that the configuration parameters can be learned from the measurements with enough accuracy and that those measurements can be easily obtained through network monitoring.","PeriodicalId":440636,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Workshop on Measurements & Networking (M&N)","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116544740","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}
Stefano Pergoloni, M. Biagi, S. Colonnese, R. Cusani, G. Scarano
{"title":"Coverage optimization of 5G atto-cells for visible light communications access","authors":"Stefano Pergoloni, M. Biagi, S. Colonnese, R. Cusani, G. Scarano","doi":"10.1109/IWMN.2015.7322993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWMN.2015.7322993","url":null,"abstract":"In the vision of the upcoming 5G communications expected to allow Internet access to different heterogeneous devices, the problem of Indoor access is under the lens of the scientific community. In order to guarantee electromagnetic safe and secure access, Visible Light Communications can be considered an enabler. In this regard trying to optimize very small cells (atto-cells) coverage is a challenging task especially if some metrics, as for example average user rate, is considered also in the presence of handover procedures. This problem is equivalent to the optimal LEDs placement once assigned the dimension of the room to be covered. We give evidence of the impact of several parameters starting from the data rate of download, the speed of the user in the room as well the handover time and retransmission due to detection errors.","PeriodicalId":440636,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Workshop on Measurements & Networking (M&N)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115142960","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}
Thierry Spetebroot, Salim Afra, N. Aguilera, D. Saucez, C. Barakat
{"title":"From network-level measurements to expected quality of experience: The Skype use case","authors":"Thierry Spetebroot, Salim Afra, N. Aguilera, D. Saucez, C. Barakat","doi":"10.1109/IWMN.2015.7322989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWMN.2015.7322989","url":null,"abstract":"Modern Internet applications rely on rich multimedia contents making the quality of experience (QoE) of end users sensitive to network conditions. Several models were developed in the literature to express QoE as a function of measurements carried out on the traffic of the applications themselves. In this paper, we propose a new methodology based on machine learning able to link expected QoE to network and device level measurements outside the applications' traffic. This direct linking to network and device level measurements is important for the prediction of QoE. We prove the feasibility of the approach in the context of Skype. In particular, we derive and validate a model to predict the Skype QoE as a function of easily measurable network performance metrics. One can see our methodology as a new way of performing measurements in the Internet, where instead of expressing the expected performance in terms of network and device level measurements that only specialists can understand, we express performance in clear terms related to expected quality of experience for different applications.","PeriodicalId":440636,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Workshop on Measurements & Networking (M&N)","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114998013","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 distributed monitoring systems for structural early warning","authors":"B. Andò, S. Baglio, A. Pistorio","doi":"10.1109/IWMN.2015.7322990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWMN.2015.7322990","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a low cost approach for structural and seismic monitoring with the aim of developing an Early Warning System. The proposed architecture is based on a customized network of multi-sensor nodes equipped with inertial sensors and a microcontroller architecture aimed to signal processing and the management of data transfer. Results presented highlight the suitability of the developed multi-sensor node and the proposed monitoring network for real applications in the field of the EW of seismic and structural related alerts.","PeriodicalId":440636,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Workshop on Measurements & Networking (M&N)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128805121","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":"Data aggregation for machine-to-machine communication with energy harvesting","authors":"Andre Riker, E. Cerqueira, M. Curado, E. Monteiro","doi":"10.1109/IWMN.2015.7322977","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWMN.2015.7322977","url":null,"abstract":"Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications have emerged as a new concept for the next generation of sensing and actuating systems. With the recent emergence of energy harvesting technologies, the current communication solutions have addressed the problem of controlling the data communication to regulate efficiently the energy consumption, aiming to avoid under and overuse of energy. However, these solutions do not consider data aggregation as means of controlling the network traffic. To fill this gap, this paper proposes the Data Aggregation for energy harVesting NETworks (DAV-NET), which regulates the energy consumption in accordance with the residual energy stored in the batteries, exploiting the data aggregation capabilities to control the network traffic. The performed simulations show that the proposed solution is able to regulate the energy consumption in case of abundant or scarce energy, controlling the aggregation level in a distributed fashion.","PeriodicalId":440636,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Workshop on Measurements & Networking (M&N)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115543744","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 the accuracy of packet-based measurements in the PTP telecom profile","authors":"G. Giorgi, C. Narduzzi","doi":"10.1109/IWMN.2015.7322987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWMN.2015.7322987","url":null,"abstract":"Recent years have witnessed an increased interest in Precision Time Protocol (PTP) in telecommunication networks, either as an alternative to Global Positioning System (GPS) or as synchronization back-up. To achieve node synchronization at the μs-level, very accurate measurements of time offsets are needed. However, unless PTP is fully supported throughout the network, timing packets may be subjected to propagation delays whose variability can significantly impair measurement. In the PTP telecommunication profile Sync packets can be broadcast at high rate, providing a slave node with statistical information that can be employed to detect and estimate such network effects. The accuracy of these estimates is analyzed in the paper, which considers the assumed underlying probability models and discusses statistical aspects for PTP packets affected by variable queuing delays. Characteristics of packet selection algorithms in ITU-T Recommendations are analyzed, providing indications on performance.","PeriodicalId":440636,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Workshop on Measurements & Networking (M&N)","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115714437","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":"MOFI: Monitoring ontology for federated infrastructures","authors":"Yahya Al-Hazmi, T. Magedanz","doi":"10.1109/IWMN.2015.7322988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWMN.2015.7322988","url":null,"abstract":"Cross-domain resource and infrastructure federation has gained more and more attention in the fields of Cloud and Future Internet (FI) testbeds. But, interoperable monitoring data exchange across heterogeneous domains remains a challenge due to the variety and heterogeneity of the used tools and interfaces. Many efforts have been made to define common data models and protocols but are task or domain specific. Based on the Semantic Web technologies, this paper presents an approach for unified data collection and representation across heterogeneous domains. The paper presents the design and implementation of an ontology-based information model for monitoring federated infrastructures. Its implementation and validation has been initially achieved in a small testbed federation. However, this solution will be deployed in a large federation within the context of the European Fed4FIRE project.","PeriodicalId":440636,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Workshop on Measurements & Networking (M&N)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128745269","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}
Laid Sadoudi, U. Biaou, M. Bocquet, E. Moulin, A. Rivenq, J. Assaad
{"title":"Experimental characterisation of IEEE 802.15.4 channel running at 2.4 GHz inside buildings","authors":"Laid Sadoudi, U. Biaou, M. Bocquet, E. Moulin, A. Rivenq, J. Assaad","doi":"10.1109/IWMN.2015.7322971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWMN.2015.7322971","url":null,"abstract":"In order to reduce energy consumption in buildings, sensor networks can be deployed to manage and control equipment in buildings. The WSNs based on ZigBee/IEEE 802.15.4 in the 2.4 GHz ISM (Industry Science and Medical) band, supports low prices and long battery life with moderate rates, low complexity of deployement, and simple data connectivity. The aim of this work is the study and analysis of the radio signals based on the 2.4 GHZ band inside buildings. This study presents optimized channel models based on extensive real hardware measurements of received signal strength value. Several measurement scenarios are considered: corridor, inter-classrooms, inter-offices and laboratory hall. Analysis of these measurements to determine the type of separation in buildings is developed and the validation of the proposed channel models is discussed.","PeriodicalId":440636,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Workshop on Measurements & Networking (M&N)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117064981","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}