D. Guiducci, C. Carciofi, C. Cecchetti, V. Petrini, M. Vaser, Elisa Ricci, E. Restuccia, G. Fusco
{"title":"Experimental analysis on possible coexistence issues related to the introduction of LTE in the 2300–2400 MHz band","authors":"D. Guiducci, C. Carciofi, C. Cecchetti, V. Petrini, M. Vaser, Elisa Ricci, E. Restuccia, G. Fusco","doi":"10.1109/EuCNC.2017.7980767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCNC.2017.7980767","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays the mobile radio technology is largely used to deliver Internet contents. Many studies to investigate techniques to use more efficiently the already assigned spectrum are currently on going at international level.","PeriodicalId":6626,"journal":{"name":"2017 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC)","volume":"126 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86407189","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":"Comparison of different beamtraining strategies from a rate-positioning trade-off perspective","authors":"Jani Saloranta, G. Destino, H. Wymeersch","doi":"10.1109/EuCNC.2017.7980738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCNC.2017.7980738","url":null,"abstract":"In next generation of mobile networks, the 5G, millimeter-wave communication is considered one of the key technologies. It allows high data rate as well as the utilization of large antennas for massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) and beamforming. However, it is mandatory that transmitter and receiver perform a training of their beams in order to gain all the benefits of a large array gain. In this paper, we study the impact of the beamtraining overhead on the data rate when an exhaustive or hierarchical strategy is used. Also, we show that the beamtraining phase can be used for positioning and, in this regard, we study the trade-off between positioning and data rate.","PeriodicalId":6626,"journal":{"name":"2017 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC)","volume":"13 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74659424","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}
I. Belikaidis, A. Georgakopoulos, P. Demestichas, U. Herzog, K. Moessner, S. Vahid, M. Fitch, K. Briggs, B. Miscopein, Bismark Okyere, V. Frascolla
{"title":"Trends and challenges for autonomic RRM and MAC functionality for QoS provision and capacity expansions in the context of 5G beyond 6GHz","authors":"I. Belikaidis, A. Georgakopoulos, P. Demestichas, U. Herzog, K. Moessner, S. Vahid, M. Fitch, K. Briggs, B. Miscopein, Bismark Okyere, V. Frascolla","doi":"10.1109/EuCNC.2017.7980748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCNC.2017.7980748","url":null,"abstract":"In currently deployed wireless networks, the lack of dynamic control across wireless resources leads to suboptimized and unbalanced spectrum loads, especially in below 6GHz bands, which in turn creates a (perceived) capacity bottleneck in end users. This issue can be addressed through the adoption of the eDSA (extended Dynamic Spectrum Access) paradigm, which consists of enhanced resource management techniques with three degrees of freedom: densification, rationalized traffic allocation over heterogeneous wireless technologies, and better load balancing across the available spectrum. The objective of this paper, triggered by the ongoing work in the SPEED-5G research project, is twofold: i) present a survey of the most promising enhanced techniques for 5G networks at MAC and RRM level, and ii) propose inter-RAT mechanisms to cope with the above mentioned issues, mainly focusing on access aspects of the next-generation networks in below and above 6GHz bands.","PeriodicalId":6626,"journal":{"name":"2017 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC)","volume":"2 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81757186","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}
Yaning Liu, J. Point, K. Katsaros, Vasilis Glykantzis, M. S. Siddiqui, E. Escalona
{"title":"SDN/NFV based caching solution for future mobile network (5G)","authors":"Yaning Liu, J. Point, K. Katsaros, Vasilis Glykantzis, M. S. Siddiqui, E. Escalona","doi":"10.1109/EuCNC.2017.7980644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCNC.2017.7980644","url":null,"abstract":"Caching content locally at the edge of the network and managing these caches by SDN/NFV based technologies are able to satisfy increasing data traffic demand in 5G. The virtualization of caching functionalities allows network operators to deploy caching services with advanced features like flexibility, dynamicity and auto-scalability, and provide caching services to service providers or virtualized network operators over the same common infrastructure. The caching management system provides two levels of operations: i) at the global level managed by the Infrastructure Provider applying to all the tenants or virtualized network operators; or ii) at the tenant-specific level managed by the specific tenants. Our caching solution opens an entirely new space of business opportunities for network operators, service providers and content providers.","PeriodicalId":6626,"journal":{"name":"2017 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC)","volume":"8 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80672096","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}
Toni Levanen, J. Talvitie, R. Wichman, Ville Syrjälä, M. Renfors, M. Valkama
{"title":"Location-aware 5G communications and Doppler compensation for high-speed train networks","authors":"Toni Levanen, J. Talvitie, R. Wichman, Ville Syrjälä, M. Renfors, M. Valkama","doi":"10.1109/EuCNC.2017.7980755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCNC.2017.7980755","url":null,"abstract":"We discuss methods to obtain high accuracy location information in high-speed train networks and way to use this information on the train and network side. First, the state-of-the-art train localization methods are reviewed and contributions of 5G new radio based localization to high-speed train systems are described. Then the location-awareness is discussed in the context of frequency domain Doppler distortion estimation and compensation in an example high-speed train system operating at 30 GHz carrier frequency. Finally, the benefits of location awareness from the communications network and train line operation point of view are discussed in general, including possibilities to improve the train track capacity and safety.","PeriodicalId":6626,"journal":{"name":"2017 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC)","volume":"41 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89304175","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}
J. M. Laco, F. Gregorio, Gustavo J. González, J. Cousseau, T. Riihonen, R. Wichman
{"title":"Patch antenna design for full-duplex transceivers","authors":"J. M. Laco, F. Gregorio, Gustavo J. González, J. Cousseau, T. Riihonen, R. Wichman","doi":"10.1109/EuCNC.2017.7980704","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCNC.2017.7980704","url":null,"abstract":"We present the design, implementation and validation (by measurements) of a two-element antenna array for inband full-duplex (FD) applications. The antenna array is designed to provide large isolation between its transmission and reception ports by changing the polarization of the channels and by designing a suitable radiation pattern for the transmission antennas. Especially, the design of the antenna array is developed by tuning the characteristic S-parameters of the antenna elements so that isolation levels larger than 55 dB are achieved without degrading the far-field transmission pattern. Simulation and measurement results show that the proposed antenna design could be a promising solution for full-duplex applications, i.e., FD access points and/or FD sensing nodes in cognitive radio systems.","PeriodicalId":6626,"journal":{"name":"2017 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC)","volume":"116 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78729992","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. Sgambelluri, F. Tusa, M. Gharbaoui, E. Maini, László Toka, Jorge Martín-Pérez, F. Paolucci, B. Martini, Wint Yi Poe, Javier Melian Hernandes, A. Muhammed, Aurora Ramos, Ó. D. Dios, Balázs Sonkoly, P. Monti, I. Vaishnavi, C. Bernardos, R. Szabó
{"title":"Orchestration of Network Services across multiple operators: The 5G Exchange prototype","authors":"A. Sgambelluri, F. Tusa, M. Gharbaoui, E. Maini, László Toka, Jorge Martín-Pérez, F. Paolucci, B. Martini, Wint Yi Poe, Javier Melian Hernandes, A. Muhammed, Aurora Ramos, Ó. D. Dios, Balázs Sonkoly, P. Monti, I. Vaishnavi, C. Bernardos, R. Szabó","doi":"10.1109/EuCNC.2017.7980666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCNC.2017.7980666","url":null,"abstract":"Future 5G networks will rely on the coordinated allocation of compute, storage, and networking resources in order to meet the functional requirements of 5G services as well as guaranteeing efficient usage of the network infrastructure. However, the 5G service provisioning paradigm will also require a unified infrastructure service market that integrates multiple operators and technologies. The 5G Exchange (5GEx) project, building heavily on the Software-Defined Network (SDN) and the Network Function Virtualization (NFV) functionalities, tries to overcome this market and technology fragmentation by designing, implementing, and testing a multi-domain orchestrator (MdO) prototype for fast and automated Network Service (NS) provisioning over multiple-technologies and spanning across multiple operators. This paper presents a first implementation of the 5GEx MdO prototype obtained by extending existing open source software tools at the disposal of the 5GEx partners. The main functions of the 5GEx MdO prototype are showcased by demonstrating how it is possible to create and deploy NSs in the context of a Slice as a Service (SlaaS) use-case, based on a multi-operator scenario. The 5GEx MdO prototype performance is experimentally evaluated running validation tests within the 5GEx sandbox. The overall time required for the NS deployment has been evaluated considering NSs deployed across two operators.","PeriodicalId":6626,"journal":{"name":"2017 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC)","volume":"17 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86304656","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}
Oskari Tervo, Harri Pennanen, S. Chatzinotas, B. Ottersten, M. Juntti
{"title":"Multi-cell interference coordination for multigroup multicast transmission","authors":"Oskari Tervo, Harri Pennanen, S. Chatzinotas, B. Ottersten, M. Juntti","doi":"10.1109/EuCNC.2017.7980705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCNC.2017.7980705","url":null,"abstract":"Multicasting has become a particularly important technique in the context of cache-enabled cloud radio access networks proposed for 5G systems, where it can be used to transmit common information to multiple users to improve both spectral and energy efficiency. For the efficient spectrum utilization, the future communications are based on aggressive frequency reuse, where the required data rates can be achieved with multiple-input multiple-output precoding techniques. This approach, however, calls for advanced interference coordination techniques. This paper summarizes some of the core approaches proposed in the literature and discusses the main future challenges.","PeriodicalId":6626,"journal":{"name":"2017 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC)","volume":"42 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79721266","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":"Physical downlink control channel for 5G new radio","authors":"H. Miao, Michael Faerber","doi":"10.1109/EuCNC.2017.7980727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCNC.2017.7980727","url":null,"abstract":"New radio technologies for the fifth generation of wireless system have been extensively studied globally. Specifically, air interface protocols for 5G radio access network will be standardized in coming years by 3GPP. All basic physical layer functions for the new radio system are currently under active development in 3GPP. Due to its crucial function in scheduled system, physical layer control channel is a core element to enable all physical layer data transmission. In particular, search space allocation and transmission schemes are fundamental problems of control channel design. Both aspects have ultimate impacts on achievable control channel coverage, capacity and spectrum efficiency. As such, search space design and promising transmission schemes for control channels are thoroughly studied in this paper. Both distributed and localized search spaces are proposed to accommodate different means of control channel transmission depending on availability of channel state information at the base station. Furthermore, two types of transmit diversity schemes with different diversity orders are developed and compared by Monte-Carlo simulations. It is demonstrated from simulation results that SFBC based transmit diversity outperforms per-RE precoder cycling scheme. Moreover, high order transmit diversity schemes are also proposed and simulation results thereof exhibit clear performance benefits.","PeriodicalId":6626,"journal":{"name":"2017 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC)","volume":"15 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79822400","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}
Sameer G. Kulkarni, M. Arumaithurai, K. Ramakrishnan, Xiaoming Fu
{"title":"REARM: Renewable energy based resilient deployment of Virtual Network Functions","authors":"Sameer G. Kulkarni, M. Arumaithurai, K. Ramakrishnan, Xiaoming Fu","doi":"10.1109/EuCNC.2017.7980676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCNC.2017.7980676","url":null,"abstract":"Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is becoming more prevalent in Data Center, Telecommunication and Enterprise networks, enabling the Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) to fast replace the traditional dedicated hardware based middleboxes. Ensuring high availability and fault tolerance of VNFs is cardinal to meet the performance and service level agreement requirements. Also, with the increasing electricity demands in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector, especially for the data centers, the inclination towards employing renewable (green) resources to power up the data centers is also increasing. Mitigating the carbon footprint and curbing the energy costs have been the driving factors for push towards employing the green energy resources. However, the Green energy supply is rather intermittent and unstable. In this work, we study the impact of deploying VNFs in Green Data Centers (GDCs) and make a case for addressing the VNF reliability and high availability to effectively tackle the stability concerns of GDC. To this extent, we present REARM, which adopts the concept of Transient VNFs that rely on a very short advance warning time to seamlessly migrate the VNFs from GDC to a more reliable and stable Data Centers (SDCs). Our experiments with container based VNFs demonstrate that adaptive state transfer mechanism results into significant reduction in both computation and communication overheads for maintaining the NF replica, and warning time of 30ms is sufficient to failover VNFs (serving 1K flows) within a data center to ensure high availability of NFV services.","PeriodicalId":6626,"journal":{"name":"2017 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76840216","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}