Ghayet El Mouna Zhioua, S. Hamouda, P. Godlewski, S. Tabbane
{"title":"A femtocells ressources allocation scheme in OFDMA based networks","authors":"Ghayet El Mouna Zhioua, S. Hamouda, P. Godlewski, S. Tabbane","doi":"10.1109/COMNET.2010.5699812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMNET.2010.5699812","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a new dynamic frequency assignment scheme for femtoCells in OFDMA networks. The femtoCell base stations are small cellular base stations specially designed to improve the poor indoor coverage and increase the system capacity for cellular and wireless broadband networks. However, these femto-base stations cause harmful interference to the macroCells. Therefore, the optimization of the radio resource allocation to femtoCells is essential to decrease the femtoCell to macroCell interferences and to offer better QoS for both femtoCell and macroCell users. Our dynamic frequency assignment scheme is based on sharing the same radio resources with macroCells which avoids resources' waste while condemning particular channels to femtoCells' deployment. Moreover, our scheme assigns the “quietest” channels to femtoCells according to the received power level. Hence, femto-BSs and macro-BSs radio resources' share could be achieved without introducing serious interference. Simulation results show the efficiency of our frequency assignment scheme. The average achievable throughput of both macroCell and femtoCell users is increased by more than 20% when compared to that obtained under a common assignment scheme.","PeriodicalId":444734,"journal":{"name":"The Second International Conference on Communications and Networking","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124778781","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}
Ryma Abassi, M. Rusinowitch, Florent Jacquemard, S. G. El Fatmi
{"title":"XML access control: from XACML to annotated schemas","authors":"Ryma Abassi, M. Rusinowitch, Florent Jacquemard, S. G. El Fatmi","doi":"10.1109/COMNET.2010.5699810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMNET.2010.5699810","url":null,"abstract":"XML became the de facto standard for the data representation and exchange on the internet. Regarding XML documents access control policy definition, OASIS ratified the XACML standard. It is a declarative language allowing the specification of authorizations as rules. Furthermore, it is common to formally represent XML documents as labeled trees and to handle secure requests through “user views”. A user view is the part of the document accessible to a given user according to the existing policy. Moreover, control access polices can be depicted as annotated rules where annotations define for each document node whether it is accessible. Hence, an annotated schema is a formal representation of “user views”. Our main contribution in this paper is then three folds. First, we compare XACML policies and annotated schemas. Second, we identify a significant fragment of XACML since this latter is very expressive and consequently complex. Third, we define adequate translation algorithms from XACML policies to annotated schemas.","PeriodicalId":444734,"journal":{"name":"The Second International Conference on Communications and Networking","volume":"138 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123223742","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 proxy-based framework for QoS-enabled Internet access in VANETS","authors":"A. Ksentini, H. Tounsi, Mounir Frikha","doi":"10.1109/COMNET.2010.5699820","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMNET.2010.5699820","url":null,"abstract":"A Vehicle Ad hoc Network (VANET) is composed of vehicles, with short range wireless communication capabilities. Vehicular networks can support both Vehicle-to-Vehicle and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure communications, and are targeted at the delivery of both road safety applications and non-safety applications, including comfort applications. Comfort applications aim to provide information and entertainment to people on traveling. These applications are typically bandwidth-demanding, have real time delivery requirements, and ask for the network capability to offer continuous access to the Internet together with a controlled Quality of service (QoS). To better cope with the dynamic nature of this network, the IEEE 802.11p has been proposed as a draft amendment to the IEEE 802.11 standard. Its core mechanism is based on the Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) for QoS management. VANET-to-Internet access needs the cooperation of certain elements of the network to serve as gateways, to choose the optimal route for them and maintain it, and to ensure users preferences and requirements of QoS. One of the challenges in VANET-to-Internet communication is how to provide connection in areas where no gateways are available. In this paper, we introduce a new QoS framework to ensure data forwarding to Internet in gateway-free area. It consists of a Proxy-based Vehicle to Internet (PVI) protocol, with a Prediction-based Routing (PBR) algorithm and IEEE 802.11p EDCA scheme.","PeriodicalId":444734,"journal":{"name":"The Second International Conference on Communications and Networking","volume":"64 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129576838","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 very efficient time and frequency synchronization method for OFDM systems operating in AWGN channels","authors":"Leila Nasraoui, Leila Najjar Atallah, M. Siala","doi":"10.1109/COMNET.2010.5699808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMNET.2010.5699808","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose an efficient scheme using a new single-symbol preamble structure for OFDM data-aided synchronization. The preamble symbol is constituted of two successive equal-duration sub-symbols, the second one of which is a differentially encoded version of the first one, using an adequately designed precoding sequence. This structure leads to almost perfect channel autocorrelation profile with sharp in-phase peak and zero out-of-phase correlation. For comparison, we review some previous methods also based on data-aided synchronization for OFDM systems. We here explore the performance of the new method in the case of the AWGN channel. The performance is presented in terms of correct frame start detection rate and estimator's variance for time estimation. For fractional frequency offset estimation, the performance is evaluated in terms of mean squared error. The obtained results prove that the accuracy of the frame start detection and the fractional frequency offset estimation are greatly enhanced, even at very low SNRs. We show that compared to the best benchmark, gains of about 5 dB and 20 dB are achieved for timing precision of one sample and of one tenth of a sample, respectively. We also show that for a target correct detection rate of 95%, our approach provides more than 17 dB gain with respect to the best benchmark. Although we concentrate here on OFDM, the proposed approach can be applied to other systems such as TDMA or CDMA.","PeriodicalId":444734,"journal":{"name":"The Second International Conference on Communications and Networking","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115028823","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":"Investigation of Sign Of Innovation - Particle Filter tracking performance in ad hoc noisy binary WSN","authors":"F. Aounallah, R. Amara, M. Turki-Hadj Alouane","doi":"10.1109/COMNET.2010.5699813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMNET.2010.5699813","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with target tracking in a binary Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) context. In particular, we propose to study the performance of the Sign Of Innovation Particle Filter (SOI-PF) algorithm in a noisy context. This parallel algorithm based on the exchange of only one bit by instant between the sensors, has shown its efficiency for target tracking in a highly non linear and noiseless framework. For the proposed purpose we consider that the communication between sensors is done via noisy and fading channels, thereby placing the study in a realistic communication context. The major difficulty in our case is that the sensors don't receive the same observation since the communication channel differ from a pair of sensors to an other. Based on exhaustive simulations, we notice that the SOI-PF preserve its good tracking ability for Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) value upper than 15dB. For SNR below this value, we succeed to improve the SOI-PF's performance by assigning a fixed sensor to perform the scheduling task for selecting the active sensors.","PeriodicalId":444734,"journal":{"name":"The Second International Conference on Communications and Networking","volume":"201 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127105555","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":"Closed form expression for the Cramér-Rao lower bound for the DOA estimates from spatially and temporally correlated narrowband signals considering noncircular sources","authors":"Sonia Ben Hassen, A. Samet, F. Bellili, S. Affes","doi":"10.1109/COMNET.2010.5699831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMNET.2010.5699831","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we derive for the first time an explicit expression for the stochastic Cramér-Rao lower bound (CRLB or CRB) of the DOA estimates from spatially and temporally correlated signals generated from noncircular sources. The new CRB is compared to those of circular temporally correlated and noncircular independent and identically distributed (iid) signals. It will be shown that the CRB obtained assuming both noncircular sources and temporally correlated signals is lower than the CRBs derived considering only one of these two assumptions. This illustrates the potential gain that both the noncircularity and the temporal correlation provide when considered together. It will also be proved that the difference between the three CRBs increases with the number of snapshots. However, as the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) increases, the CRBs merge together and decrease linearly. Moreover, we notice that in low SNR values the temporal correlation is more informative about the unknown DOA parameters than the noncircularity. Finally, we show the dependence of the CRB on the noncircularity rate, the noncircularity phase separation and the DOA separation.","PeriodicalId":444734,"journal":{"name":"The Second International Conference on Communications and Networking","volume":"402 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122786756","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":"Evaluation of the blocking probability and the throughput in the uplink of wireless cellular networks","authors":"M. Karray","doi":"10.1109/COMNET.2010.5699702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMNET.2010.5699702","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of the present paper is to propose a rapid and accurate method for the evaluation of the quality of service (QoS) perceived by the users in the uplink of wireless cellular networks. In doing so we aim to account for the dynamics induced by the arrivals and the departures of the users. In particular, the QoS is evaluated in terms of the blocking probability for streaming users and the throughput of elastic calls.","PeriodicalId":444734,"journal":{"name":"The Second International Conference on Communications and Networking","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130224692","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":"Impact of Hierarchical Modulation on Proportional Fair in OFDMA-based networks","authors":"A. Jdidi, T. Chahed","doi":"10.1109/COMNET.2010.5699815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMNET.2010.5699815","url":null,"abstract":"Proportional Fair (PF) algorithm is known to achieve a good trade-off between efficiency and fairness by allocation opportunistically resources to users with good radio conditions, without sacrificing fairness considerations towards the other users of the system. On the other hand, Hierarchical Modulation (HM) is a means to increase the spectral efficiency of a given system by superposing an additional information stream over a basic one, by means of embedded constellations. This, in turn, results in a high resource utilization and hence overall system throughput. In this work, we quantify the system performance, obtained by jointly using PF with HM, for a realistic setting where users come to the system at random and leave it after a finite duration, upon the completion of their data transfers, and show that simple, cyclic Round Robin (RR) mechanism yields a better performance, along with simpler implementation.","PeriodicalId":444734,"journal":{"name":"The Second International Conference on Communications and Networking","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117080503","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":"GoP-based fluid Markovian modelling of video traffic","authors":"Wassim Abbessi, H. Nabli","doi":"10.1109/COMNET.2010.5699804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMNET.2010.5699804","url":null,"abstract":"The constant evolution of video standards and technologies and the important growth of the amount of video data in networks leads to a need to build new models for video sources. In this paper, we specify a Markovian fluid model based on GoPs (Group of Pictures) that creates a video source descriptor. This descriptor can be used to compute the loss rate observed when transmitting the video via the network. We show also how to build an artificial video traffic having the same statistical characteristics of the original source.","PeriodicalId":444734,"journal":{"name":"The Second International Conference on Communications and Networking","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115949253","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. Hafsaoui, G. Urvoy-Keller, D. Collange, M. Siekkinen
{"title":"A study of email usage and performance over Cellular technology","authors":"A. Hafsaoui, G. Urvoy-Keller, D. Collange, M. Siekkinen","doi":"10.1109/COMNET.2010.5699823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMNET.2010.5699823","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we investigate the performance of Cellular networks, focusing on the key mail and webmail services. Specifically, the primary motivation of this research is to compare mail and webmail performance and to discuss different factors that affect performance as perceived by end users. We discuss key factors related to the network configurations, e.g., proxies, that can bias the computation of performance metrics, e.g., RTT. For Webmail, we are able to further characterize webmail servers and client devices including the operating systems (OS) of the devices. In our trace, Hotmail is the most popular service and represents 23% of all webmail connections. As for users' device, the Iphone of Apple drives the market and thus appears by far the most commonly used end user device. While mail generates more TCP connections than webmail, it represents less bytes. We show that webmail achieves higher throughputs than legacy mail. We investigate this difference of throughputs and uncover several key factors that explain this difference. In particular, we demonstrate that while losses can have a detrimental impact for both mail and webmail, it impacts more the former. Also, the mail application (mail client and server) significantly impacts the way data is exchanged and thus the throughput.","PeriodicalId":444734,"journal":{"name":"The Second International Conference on Communications and Networking","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131341515","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}