{"title":"Lightweight security protocol for health monitoring in Ambient Assisted Living environment","authors":"H. A. Hamadi, A. Gawanmeh, M. Al-Qutayri","doi":"10.1109/ICCW.2017.7962835","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCW.2017.7962835","url":null,"abstract":"Security is one of the major challenges that affect the deployment of the biosensors that form Wireless Body Sensor Networks (WBSNs). However, the implementation of any security protocol will result in the introduction of additional functional blocks to the device, which invariably lead to an increase in power consumption and processing delay. Both aspects are of critical importance to biosensor nodes in WBSNs as they tend to have limited power and need to have real-time processing capabilities. In this paper, a lightweight security protocol is presented to secure the medical information transmitted from the biosensor to the gateway. The proposed security protocol relies on a counter method at the biosensor side, which implements several security techniques at the biosensor side such as the nonce, hash, and public key encryption in order to minimize the consumption of biosensor's power needed for security operations. The security protocol comes with acceptable low computation overhead and hence results in minimal processing delay. Therefore, the proposed protocol, as compared with that of other existing ones, can be used for real time sensing and transmission of medical data.","PeriodicalId":6656,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops)","volume":"89 1","pages":"1282-1287"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74672225","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":"vIoT: A first step towards a shared, multi-tenant IoT Infrastructure architecture","authors":"Muneeb Ahmad, Jalal S. Alowibdi, M. Ilyas","doi":"10.1109/ICCW.2017.7962675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCW.2017.7962675","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a virtualized Internet of Things (vIoT) testbed. We argue in favor of an IoT Infrastructure-as-a-Service as a possible deployment model for future IoTs. The vIoT testbed is being built from open source components, most notably comprising of OpenStack, Linux containers and Raspberry Pi computers. Results demonstrates vIoT infrastructure configured to be shared by multiple users using with LXC/LXD running containers of Ubuntu Trusty Tahr, Ubuntu Xenial Xerus and CirrOS.","PeriodicalId":6656,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops)","volume":"66 1","pages":"308-313"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73078184","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}
Jianchi Zhu, Da Wang, Bei Yang, X. She, Peng Chen, Fengyi Yang, Q. Bi
{"title":"Virtual layer technology for Ultra-Dense Networks","authors":"Jianchi Zhu, Da Wang, Bei Yang, X. She, Peng Chen, Fengyi Yang, Q. Bi","doi":"10.1109/ICCW.2017.7962817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCW.2017.7962817","url":null,"abstract":"Ultra-Dense Networks (UDN) with network densification are regarded as one of the key technologies to meet the requirements of ultra-high traffic volume density in 5G. However, the increase of deployment density will pose significant challenges, such as the inter-cell interference and mobility management. The virtual layer technology is promising to address these challenges. In this paper, the system design of the virtual layer technology is given. To evaluate the performance of the virtual layer technology, a field experiment is carried out and a further system-level simulation experiment based on the output of the field experiment is conducted. Both the field experiment and simulation experiment show that the virtual layer technology can achieve a significant gain in terms of both average cell spectral efficiency and cell edge spectral efficiency, while reducing the handover frequency and handover failure rate.","PeriodicalId":6656,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops)","volume":"8 1","pages":"1171-1176"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79750731","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":"Graph-based optimal revenue packet scheduling in Vehicle-to-Infrastructure communication","authors":"Yanyan Lu, Qimei Cui, Yanzhao Hou, Zhen-guo Gao, Yuhao Zhang","doi":"10.1109/ICCW.2017.7962721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCW.2017.7962721","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, LTE-based Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) communication is widely studied due to its considerable potential to satisfy users' Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. It is convenient within the diversity of infrastructures. In particular, packet scheduling is of great importance in V2I. In this paper, we establish an optimization packet scheduling model in V2I according to the user's requests including lifetime, the number of needed packets and individual costs. Then, it is designed where the cost of each packet obeys linear decreasing function in a given time interval in order to be closer to the reality. Furthermore, we divide requirements with respect to the number of desired data packets to transform the packet delivery problem to a maximum weight problem in bipartite graph. At the same time, Kuhn-Munkres (KM) algorithm is adopted to maximize the revenue while reducing the complexity. The simulation results show that our proposed algorithm is effective both in offline and online case which increases 52.31% overall revenue while reducing 46.80% CPU time.","PeriodicalId":6656,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops)","volume":"34 1","pages":"583-588"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86944248","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":"Dynamic uplink/downlink resource management in flexible duplex-enabled wireless networks","authors":"Qi Liao","doi":"10.1109/ICCW.2017.7962728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCW.2017.7962728","url":null,"abstract":"Flexible duplex is proposed to adapt to the channel and traffic asymmetry for future wireless networks [1]. In this paper, we propose two novel algorithms within the flexible duplex framework for joint uplink and downlink resource allocation in multi-cell scenario, named successive approximation of fixed point (SAFP) and resource muting for dominant interferer (RMDI), based on the awareness of interference coupling among wireless links. Numerical results show significant performance gain over the baseline system with fixed uplink/downlink resource configuration, and over the dynamic time division duplex (TDD) scheme that independently adapts the configuration to time-varying traffic volume in each cell. The proposed algorithms achieve two-fold increase when compared with the baseline scheme, measured by the worst-case quality of service satisfaction level, under a low level of traffic asymmetry. The gain is more significant when the traffic is highly asymmetric, as it achieves three-fold increase.","PeriodicalId":6656,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops)","volume":"13 1","pages":"625-631"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86515291","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":"Joint optimization of cognitive RF energy harvesting and channel access using Markovian Multi-Armed Bandit problem","authors":"Fahira Sangare, Zhu Han","doi":"10.1109/ICCW.2017.7962705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCW.2017.7962705","url":null,"abstract":"With the growing number of connected devices (e.g. smartphones, sensors, actuators and cameras) in 5G, the massive Internet of Thing (IoT) is expected to address a wide range of characteristics and demands, with more radio-frequency (RF) bands to support multiple frequency transmission by 2020. Separate antennas and RF chips may be required for widely separated frequency bands. The development of cognitive radio systems focused on channel access and spectrum sensing, which can be programmed and configured dynamically, is therefore fundamental for the successful deployment of such systems. This paper introduces an innovative system for spectrum sensing, channel access and power for energy constrained wireless sensor networks. A commercially available evaluation board is used to detect and convert RF signals to a DC voltage for powering a sensor board that communicates over other channels to an access point. Our spectrum sensing conceptualizes the Markovian formulation of the exploration/exploitation balancing technique of available frequency bands, also known as the Multi-Armed Bandit (MAB) problem. To optimize RF energy harvesting and data transmission in channels modeled by a Rayleigh distribution, we formulate and solve a joint reward equation for the MAB Gittins indices, then compare with another MAB algorithm. The simulation results show the optimality of the Gittins index allocation strategy in terms of channel selection percentage and minimization of the regret.","PeriodicalId":6656,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops)","volume":"69 1","pages":"487-492"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86106197","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}
Josef Kulmer, Stefan Hinteregger, Bernhard Großwindhager, M. Rath, M. Bakr, E. Leitinger, K. Witrisal
{"title":"Using DecaWave UWB transceivers for high-accuracy multipath-assisted indoor positioning","authors":"Josef Kulmer, Stefan Hinteregger, Bernhard Großwindhager, M. Rath, M. Bakr, E. Leitinger, K. Witrisal","doi":"10.1109/ICCW.2017.7962828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCW.2017.7962828","url":null,"abstract":"Robust indoor positioning and location awareness at a sub-meter accuracy typically require highly accurate radio channel measurements to extract precise time-of-flight measurements. Emerging UWB transponders like the DecaWave DW1000 chip offer to estimate channel impulse responses with reasonably high bandwidth and excellent clock stability, yielding a ranging precision below 10 cm. The competitive pricing of these chips allows scientists and engineers for the first time to exploit the benefits of UWB for indoor positioning without the need for a massive investment into experimental equipment. This work investigates the performance of the DW1000 chip concerning position related information that can be extracted from its channel impulse response measurements. We evaluate the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio of the line-of-sight and reflected multipath components which is a key parameter determining the Cramér-Rao lower bound on the ranging error variance. We propose a novel and highly efficient positioning algorithm, which requires information from a single anchor only. Results demonstrate reliable and robust positioning at an accuracy below 0.5 m.","PeriodicalId":6656,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops)","volume":"33 1","pages":"1239-1245"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86772608","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":"Throughput analysis of cooperative multi-hop underlay CRNs with incremental relaying","authors":"Hari Krishna Boddapati, S. Prakriya, M. Bhatnagar","doi":"10.1109/ICCW.2017.7962687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCW.2017.7962687","url":null,"abstract":"To increase the communication range of multi-hop cognitive radio networks (CRNs) while avoiding the implied loss in throughput, use of incremental relaying has been suggested. In this paper, we discuss an incremental relaying (IR) protocol for cooperative multi-hop CRNs (CMHCRNs). A CMHCRN with multiple decode-and-forward relays in each hop is considered. In each hop, the relays whose received signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) values are greater than a predefined threshold constitute a qualified relay set (QRS). The performance of an IR protocol that selects a relay from the QRS that has the highest SNR to the destination at each hop of the CMHCRN is analyzed. Both peak transmit power and peak interference power constraints are taken into account. The end-to-end outage probability and throughput expressions are derived for the considered network over Rayleigh fading channels. Closed-form expressions for floor values of outage probability and throughput are also derived. Based on the derived expressions, we demonstrate that with increase in number of hops, throughput first increases and then decreases.","PeriodicalId":6656,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops)","volume":"7 1","pages":"379-385"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88839485","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":"Mode selection and resource allocation in uplink device-to-device enabled cloud radio access networks","authors":"Zhen Wang, Yaohua Sun","doi":"10.1109/ICCW.2017.7962845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCW.2017.7962845","url":null,"abstract":"The device-to-device (D2D) enabled cloud radio access network (C-RAN) is regarded as a promising network architecture with high spectral efficiency and low latency. Considering that the centralized optimization puts heavy burdens on the fronthaul and baseband unit pool, the mode selection and resource allocation problem aiming at maximizing the system throughput in uplink is modeled as a coalition formation game with a partition form, which can be solved by a distributed algorithm. This algorithm's core idea is that D2D pairs autonomously optimize the resource allocation with mode selection under fronthaul capacity constraints by joining different coalitions based on the well-defined preference order. Simulation results show that enabling D2D can significantly improve the C-RAN throughput, and the performance gain strictly depends on the fronthaul capacity, and the distance between the transmitter and receiver of each D2D pair. Furthermore, the proposal can approach to the close optimum solution obtained by exhaustive search.","PeriodicalId":6656,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops)","volume":"28 1","pages":"1341-1345"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80681131","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":"Novel concept of D2D mobility modeling utilizing biological cell jamming/unjamming paradigm","authors":"Subharthi Banerjee, M. Hempel, H. Sharif","doi":"10.1109/ICCW.2017.7962712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCW.2017.7962712","url":null,"abstract":"The effects of human mobility in Device-to-Device (D2D) communication are not well understood, but with the recent proliferation of D2D, communications have become a critical research emphasis. However, very little is understood on how human mobility and D2D communication are interdependent. The unpredictability of human mobility is one of the root causes in properly visualizing and designing an efficient D2D system framework. The impact of mobility, heterogeneous cell size and distribution, the presence of multiple channel access methods and movement behavior lead to nearly insurmountable challenges in modelling D2D comprehensively and accurately. Thus, to address these challenges our work leverages and extends upon a novel concept from biology and the human mobility model STEPS - that of shape-based cellular jamming and unjamming. Novel and recent studies in the medical domain infer the fundamental reasons for biological cellular jamming as a consequence of distortion in cell shapes. In this paper, a similar analogy of jamming and interaction based distortion in mobility has been used to investigate a novel approach to accurately capture and depict group-based human mobility and its states.","PeriodicalId":6656,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops)","volume":"IA-21 1","pages":"528-533"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84609788","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}