{"title":"Optimal cache allocation for femto helpers with joint transmission capabilities","authors":"Alina Tuholukova, G. Neglia, T. Spyropoulos","doi":"10.1109/ICC.2017.7996469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2017.7996469","url":null,"abstract":"As cellular network operators are struggling to keep up with the rapidly increasing traffic demand, two key directions are deemed necessary for beyond 4G networks: (i) extensive cell densification to improve spatial reuse, and (ii) storage of content as close to the user as possible to cope with the backhaul constraints and increased interference. However, caching has mostly been studied with an exclusive focus either on the backhaul network (e.g. the “femto-caching” line of work) or on the radio access (e.g. through coded caching or cacheaided CoMP). As a result, an understanding of the impact of edge caching on network-wide and end-to-end performance is lacking. In this paper we investigate the problem of optimal caching in a context where nearby small cells (“femto-helpers”) can coordinate not just in terms of what to cache but also to perform Joint Transmission (a type of CoMP). We show that interesting tradeoffs arise between caching policies that improve radio access and ones that improve backhaul, and propose an algorithm that provably achieves an 1/2-approximation ratio to the optimal one (which is NP-hard), and performs well in simulated scenarios.","PeriodicalId":6517,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)","volume":"39 1","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77976595","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 evaluation of LoRa networks in a smart city scenario","authors":"D. Magrin, Marco Centenaro, L. Vangelista","doi":"10.1109/ICC.2017.7996384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2017.7996384","url":null,"abstract":"Low-Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs) are continuously gaining momentum as fundamental enablers of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm. These networks provide longrange coverage to end nodes, exploiting license-free frequency bands. The focus of this work is on one of the most prominent LPWAN technologies: LoRa™. We implemented a new ns-3 module to study the performance of a LoRa-based IoT network in a typical urban scenario. Simulation results show that a LoRa network can scale well, achieving packet success rates above 95% in presence of a number of end devices in the order of 104.","PeriodicalId":6517,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)","volume":"9 1","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74743110","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 scalability and interference avoidance in nonlinear adjacent channel interference networks","authors":"Aditya V. Padaki, R. Tandon, Jeffrey H. Reed","doi":"10.1109/ICC.2017.7996998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2017.7996998","url":null,"abstract":"Adjacent channel interference caused by intermodulation distortion adversely affects the network operations in next generation heterogeneous and dynamic spectrum access networks. Multitudes of radio access technologies make the receivers susceptible to harmful interference due to nonlinear RF front ends. In this paper we analyze the intermodulation distortion arising from pairwise interactions of adjacent channel signals from a spectrum centric point of view and develop frameworks to ascertain the adjacent channel signals causing interference at a given desired channel. We further propose achievable schemes for interference avoidance and assess the scalability of the next generation Nonlinear Adjacent Channel Interference Networks. We further propose schemes for complete interference protection of incumbents with sensitive receiver requirements from secondary operations in adjacent channels in the spatio-temporal vicinity. This paper presents valuable insights on scalability and schemes for nonlinear adjacent channel interference avoidance in next generation shared spectrum networks.","PeriodicalId":6517,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)","volume":"77 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73148286","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":"Bridging the gap between big data and game theory: A general hierarchical pricing framework","authors":"Zijie Zheng, Lingyang Song, Zhu Han","doi":"10.1109/ICC.2017.7996334","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2017.7996334","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a general pricing framework, helping the controller promote agents to achieve its objective, for a big data network with one controller and a large number of agents. The convergence of the framework is guaranteed for a general class of objective functions: a separable convex function for the controller and a convex function for each agent. Specially, the proposed framework can converge linearly, when the controller's objective is strongly convex, and the agents' objectives have a uniform Lipschitz gradient. The convergence, and especially the linear convergence is not dependent on the number of agents, which is important for a network with large size. Through numerical results, we apply our pricing framework in a wireless virtualized network to verify its fast convergence, where the pricing framework converges after just a few steps.","PeriodicalId":6517,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)","volume":"429 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77239369","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}
Walid Khallef, M. Molnár, A. Benslimane, Sylvain Durand
{"title":"Multiple constrained QoS routing with RPL","authors":"Walid Khallef, M. Molnár, A. Benslimane, Sylvain Durand","doi":"10.1109/ICC.2017.7997081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2017.7997081","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, there have been significant efforts to standardize a routing protocol for Low-power and Lossy Networks (LLNs). This effort has culminated in standard IPv6 routing protocol for LLNs (RPL). The main interest of RPL is to improve routing in an LLN minimizing the usage of network resources. For this, RPL builds acyclic graphs and applies an Objective Function (OF) which is responsible of choosing the preferred parent and the best links during the construction of the Destination Oriented Directed Acyclic Graph (DODAG). This paper introduces a new OF, based on a Non-Linear Length (NL-OF) which takes into account any number of metrics and constraints for QoS routing. NL-OF ensures that each path in the DODAG respects the input constraints. The NL-OF can be used to meet the requirements of sensible applications, such as real-time applications. A significant part of this work aims at studying the theoretical aspect of the NL-OF. Finally, using Cooja simulator, we evaluate the performance of NL-OF. We show that our new Objective Function gives a good result and outperforms the three existing OFs when considering three QoS parameters which are end-to-end Delay, Packet Loss and Jitter.","PeriodicalId":6517,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)","volume":"86 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84001325","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}
K. Magowe, A. Giorgetti, K. Sithamparanathan, Xinghuo Yu
{"title":"Statistical distribution of position error in weighted centroid localization","authors":"K. Magowe, A. Giorgetti, K. Sithamparanathan, Xinghuo Yu","doi":"10.1109/ICC.2017.7996836","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2017.7996836","url":null,"abstract":"Weighted centroid localization (WCL) based on received signal strength (RSS) measurements is an attractive low-complexity solution that enables cognitive radios (CRs) to have a geolocation awareness of the radio environment. In this paper, we propose a new analytical framework to accurately calculate the performance of WCL based on the statistical distribution of the ratio of two quadratic forms in normal variables. In particular, we derive an exact expression for the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of the two-dimensional location estimation in the presence of independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) as well as correlated shadowing. Numerical results confirm that the analytical framework is able to predict the performance of WCL capturing all the essential aspects of propagation as well as CR network spatial topology.","PeriodicalId":6517,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)","volume":"36 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85302330","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}
Carlos Cambra Baseca, S. Sendra, Jaime Lloret, Laura García
{"title":"An IoT service-oriented system for agriculture monitoring","authors":"Carlos Cambra Baseca, S. Sendra, Jaime Lloret, Laura García","doi":"10.1109/ICC.2017.7996640","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2017.7996640","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), Internet of things (IoT) and aerial mapping are nowadays being used very much in agriculture. The challenge of joining those technologies requires a new and smart wireless network topology for devices communication. Problems like scalability and manageability are important challenges when there are many devices. This paper presents the design of a smart IoT communication system manager used as a low cost irrigation controller. The proposal is a powerful irrigation tool that uses real time data such as the variable rate irrigation and some parameters taken from the field. The field parameters, the index vegetation (estimated using aerial images) and the irrigation events, such as flow level, pressure level or wind speed, are periodically sampled. Data is processed in a smart cloud service based on the Drools Guvnor (a Business Rules Manager). The developed multimedia platform can be controlled remotely by a mobile phone. Finally, we measured the bandwidth consumed when the system is sending different kinds of commands and data.","PeriodicalId":6517,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)","volume":"115 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84019195","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":"Optimal positioning of flying relays for wireless networks: A LOS map approach","authors":"Junting Chen, D. Gesbert","doi":"10.1109/ICC.2017.7996921","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2017.7996921","url":null,"abstract":"This paper considers the exploitation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in wireless networking, with which communication-enabled robots operate as flying wireless relays to help fill coverage or capacity gaps in the network. We focus on the particular problem of (automatic) UAV positioning, which is known to crucially affect performance. Existing methods typically rely on statistical models of the air-to-ground channel, and thus, they fail to exploit the fine-grained information of line-of-sight (LOS) conditions at some locations. This paper develops an efficient algorithm to find the best position of the UAV based on the fine-grained LOS information. In spite of the complex terrain topology, the algorithm is able to converge to the optimal UAV position to maximize the end-to-end throughput without a global exploration of a signal strength radio map. Numerical results demonstrate that in a dense urban area, the UAV-aided wireless system with the optimal UAV position can almost double the end-to-end capacity from the base station (BS) to the user as compared to that of a direct BS to user link.","PeriodicalId":6517,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)","volume":"438 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83679619","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":"Capacity analysis of aerial small cells","authors":"Akarsh Pokkunuru, Qin Zhang, Pu Wang","doi":"10.1109/ICC.2017.7997232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2017.7997232","url":null,"abstract":"Providing high-speed communication for mobile users in remote geographic areas or after a disaster occurs is not only critical but also challenging. To counter such challenge, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been exploited to provide a fast-deployable and high-speed communication system, where each UAV can serve as an aerial small cell base station to provide WiFi and/or cellular services for the ground users. Despite its fast-deployable and highly maneuverable features, the capacity analysis of aerial small cells is largely missing. To close such gap, a stochastic propagation model for A-to-G aerial channels is first introduced, which takes into account the impact from wave propagation, gaseous absorption, Doppler spread, attitude-dependent shadowing, and multipath fading. Then, by exploiting such model, the area spectral efficiency of the aerial small cells is investigated for both SISO and MIMO cases. Our study reveals the inherent relationship among the area capacity, height and coverage and shows that there exists an optimal attitude that can maximize network capacity and cell coverage.","PeriodicalId":6517,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)","volume":"39 5","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91421229","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 SDN mobile ad hoc network: From theory to practice","authors":"Hans C. Yu, Giorgio Quer, R. Rao","doi":"10.1109/ICC.2017.7996340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2017.7996340","url":null,"abstract":"A promising approach for dealing with the increasing demand of data traffic is the use of device-to-device (D2D) technologies, in particular when the destination can be reached directly, or though few retransmissions by peer devices. Thus, the cellular network can offload local traffic that is transmitted by an ad hoc network, e.g., a mobile ad hoc network (MANET), or a vehicular ad hoc network (VANET). The cellular base station can help coordinate all the devices in the ad hoc network by reusing the software tools developed for software-defined networks (SDNs), which divide the control and the data messages, transmitted in two separate interfaces. In this paper, we present a practical implementation of an SDN MANET, describe in detail the software components that we adopted, and provide a repository for all the new components that we developed. This work can be a starting point for the wireless networking community to design new testbeds with SDN capabilities that can have the advantages of D2D data transmissions and the flexibility of a centralized network management. In order to prove the feasibility of such a network, we also showcase the performance of the proposed network implemented in real devices, as compared to a distributed ad hoc network.","PeriodicalId":6517,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)","volume":"263 3","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91460462","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}