{"title":"A Blockchain-based Approach for Optimal Energy Dispatch and Fault Reporting in P2P Microgrid","authors":"Roshan Singh, P. Singh, Sukumar Nandi","doi":"10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9682176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9682176","url":null,"abstract":"Proper utilization of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) in a microgrid can make a smart city locality self-sufficient in power generation and consumption, reducing loads on the main grid. The concept of a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) microgrid aims to provide efficient energy dispatch with minimal power loss and higher incentives to the prosumers. However, the P2P-based architecture comes with transmission management and maintenance challenges, resulting from an absence of a global view of transmissions in the grid. Being decentralized in nature identification of critical issues such as congestion, energy theft, and other faults is challenging and such issues may result in power outages in the grid. In, this work we propose a blockchain-based approach for optimal energy dispatch and fault reporting in a P2P microgrid. We harness the capabilities of the blockchain for its application as an information exchange platform addressing the above-mentioned issues and demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed approach with proper experiments. Our experiments show low power consumption while maintaining the proposed approach.","PeriodicalId":6802,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"160 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72641260","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":"PSO-Based K-means Algorithm for Clustering Routing in 5G WSN Networks","authors":"Aijing Sun, Kailei Zhu, Jianbo Du, Haotong Cao","doi":"10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9682177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9682177","url":null,"abstract":"With the development of the Internet of Things, Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) in 5G networks is becoming more and more important in the field of information and communication technology, and is widely used in many scenarios. However, WSN usually has limited energy due to its compact structure. For energy consumption issues, the hierarchical routing architecture has been considered that is an extremely effective method to save network energy, but uneven network clustering and unreasonable Cluster Head (CH) will lead to unbalanced network energy consumption and reduce the network lifetime. In this paper, we intend to use the K-means algorithm for network clustering. Considering K-means algorithm is sensitive to the Initial Center (IC) and is easy to fall into the local optimum, we use Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm (PSO) to optimize the initial clustering center of K-means to obtain the optimum clustering. After the network clustering is completed, we comprehensively considers the Sensor Node’s (SN) energy and SN’s location factors for CH selection, and dynamically updates the weight of the factor according to the remaining energy of the SNs. Simulation results show that the proposed protocol performs well in balancing the network’s energy consumption and extending lifetime of the network.","PeriodicalId":6802,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"30 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84953551","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}
Seyyed Mohammadmahdi Shahabi, Zhaohui Yang, H. Asgari, G. Charbit, M. Shikh-Bahaei
{"title":"Hybrid Beamforming for Distributed Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces-Aided Systems","authors":"Seyyed Mohammadmahdi Shahabi, Zhaohui Yang, H. Asgari, G. Charbit, M. Shikh-Bahaei","doi":"10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9682009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9682009","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a distributed multiple-intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted multiple-input single-output (MISO) system is studied. Since IRS is operated in a passive manner, only imperfect channel information is considered in our model. Our aim is to maximize the achievable sum rate of the system by adopting a hybrid construction where we jointly optimize the active transmit beamforming at the base station (BS) and the passive beamforming at the IRS. To solve this problem, utilizing successive convex approximation (SCA), an iterative algorithm is proposed via alternatively optimizing transmit beamforming and passive beamforming. Simulation results show the proposed iterative algorithm outperforms the conventional semi-definite programming (SDP)-based algorithm. Moreover, the proposed algorithm is able to significantly compensate for the channel estimation error.","PeriodicalId":6802,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"8 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83147468","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}
Nattaruedee Vithanwattana, G. Karthick, G. Mapp, C. George
{"title":"Exploring a New Security Framework for Future Healthcare Systems","authors":"Nattaruedee Vithanwattana, G. Karthick, G. Mapp, C. George","doi":"10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9681967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9681967","url":null,"abstract":"The Internet of Things is driving impactful and significant changes in healthcare systems across the globe. The use of mobile and wireless technologies to support healthcare environments has enormous potential to transform healthcare. For example, healthcare data, which is considered to be very sensitive, must be securely accessed, processed and stored. How-ever, digital healthcare IT platforms are increasingly coming under attack by malware such as Ransomware. In addition, there is now a need to integrate eHealth and mHealth mechanisms into national healthcare systems. New technologies, such as blockchain, are being used to address these issues. What is needed is a new framework which can use these technologies to secure healthcare. This paper proposes a new security framework that responds to these security concerns. The framework is then used to design an implementation framework with new mechanisms including Capabilities, Secure Remote Procedure Calls and a Service Management Framework.","PeriodicalId":6802,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"36 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78707449","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":"Quantized Compressed Sensing for Communication-Efficient Federated Learning","authors":"Yong-Nam Oh, N. Lee, Yo-Seb Jeon","doi":"10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9682076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9682076","url":null,"abstract":"Federated learning (FL) is a decentralized artificial intelligence technique for training a global model on a parameter server (PS) through collaboration with wireless devices, each with its own local training data set. In this paper, we present a communication-efficient FL framework which consists of gradient compression and reconstruction strategies based on quantized compressed sensing (QCS). The key idea of the gradient compression strategy is to compress-and-quantize a local gradient vector computed at each device after sparsifying this vector in a block wise fashion. Our gradient compression strategy can make communication overhead less than one bit per gradient entry. For accurate reconstruction of the local gradient from the compressed signals at the PS, we employ a expectation-maximization generalized-approximate-message-passing algorithm. The algorithm iteratively computes an approximate minimum mean square error solution of the local gradient, while learning the unknown model parameters of the Bernoulli Gaussian-mixture prior. Using the MNIST data set, we demonstrate that the presented FL framework can achieve almost identical classification performance with the case that performs no compression, while achieving a significant reduction of communication overhead.","PeriodicalId":6802,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"42 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89573104","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 Survey of The Relationship Between Human Faces And Body Mass Index (BMI)","authors":"Yubo Zhang, Wei Li","doi":"10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9682060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9682060","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, under the influence of the COVID 19 epidemic, risks of obesity are increasing. Body mass index (BMI) is a good measure of obesity and studies have proved that face is affected by BMI. If we could find a model to predict BMI by human face, it will reduce the time costs and the infection risk of the hospital. However, the number of relevant studies is limited. There are predictive models for BMI but not relevant models for Asian faces. In this paper, collected relevant studies were analyzed and classified based on research objectives and research methods, according to the classification, a face prediction BMI model which uses residual network and Asian face datasets was recommended. In the end, we summarize all the researches and list the directions not researched and innovative places.","PeriodicalId":6802,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"3 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89930680","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":"Neural Joint Source-Channel Decoding using Arithmetic Codes","authors":"Zijian Liang, K. Niu, Jincheng Dai","doi":"10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9682040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9682040","url":null,"abstract":"Traditional iterative joint source-channel coding (JSCD) scheme based on soft-in-soft-out (SISO) decoding for arithmetic codes (AC) has a very high implementation complexity, which will cause an unbearable decoding latency due to a plenty of AC decoding steps and cross-layer interactions between physical layer and application layer. To tackle this, we propose a learning-based joint source-channel decoding approach, neural-JSCD, which consists of a series of AC SISO decoders and channel SISO decoders. The proposed approach introduces weights and offset factors to the simplified AC SISO decoders and damping factors to the output extrinsic information of both AC and channel SISO decoders, cooperated with trainable low-density parity-check (LDPC) neural decoders to realize the iterative decoding for AC. Through a greedy training method based on gradient descent, the learnable factors of neural-JSCD can be tuned to learn the a priori information of arithmetic codes, thus avoiding the great number of AC decoding steps together with cross-layer interactions during the iterative decoding process and rapidly reducing the implementation complexity of iterative AC decoding. Simulation results show that with a better decoding performance, neural-JSCD can reduce the number of iterations by at least 50% with no AC decoding steps and cross-layer interactions compared to traditional JSCD, in consequence, it greatly reduces the decoding latency of iterative decoding.","PeriodicalId":6802,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"45 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85925152","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}
Weiquan Ni, Alia Asheralieva, C. Maple, Md. Monjurul Karim, D. Niyato, Qiang Yan
{"title":"Throughput-Efficient Blockchain for Internet-of-Vehicles","authors":"Weiquan Ni, Alia Asheralieva, C. Maple, Md. Monjurul Karim, D. Niyato, Qiang Yan","doi":"10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9681973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9681973","url":null,"abstract":"Internet-of-Vehicle (IoV) is empowering smart vehicles with data collection and sharing capabilities, and blockchains have been introduced to manage the IoV data due to many advantages, including decentralization, security, reliability, and scalability. Nevertheless, existing IoV blockchain models suffer from poor security against collusion attacks instigated by malicious blockchain miners typically represented by roadside units (RSUs). To address this problem, additional block verifiers, e.g., vehicles, can be recruited during block verification, which enhances security but also can lead to the reduced throughput. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a resource management scheme for IoV blockchains to enhance the system security while maximizing the throughput by optimizing contributed computing resources from RSUs and recruited vehicles. We show that the optimal strategies of RSUs and vehicles can be found through the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions and verify (using simulations) that our scheme achieves the higher throughput with enhanced security compared to the existing IoV blockchains.","PeriodicalId":6802,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"16 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77068272","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}
Alex Minetto, Simone Zocca, Francesco Raviglione, M. Malinverno, C. Casetti, C. Chiasserini, F. Dovis
{"title":"Cooperative Localization Enhancement through GNSS Raw Data in Vehicular Networks","authors":"Alex Minetto, Simone Zocca, Francesco Raviglione, M. Malinverno, C. Casetti, C. Chiasserini, F. Dovis","doi":"10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9682163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9682163","url":null,"abstract":"The evolution and integration of communication networks and positioning technologies are evolving at a fast pace in the framework of vehicular systems. The mutual dependency of such two capabilities can enable several new cooperative paradigms, whose adoption is however slowed down by the lack of suitable open protocols, especially related to the positioning and navigation domain. In light of this, the paper introduces a novel vehicular message type, namely the Cooperative Enhancement Message (CEM), and an associated open protocol to enable the sharing of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) raw measurements among connected vehicles. The proposed CEM aims at extending existent approaches such as Cooperative Awareness Messages (CAM) and Collective Perception Messages (CPM) by complementing their paradigms with a cooperative enhancement of the localization accuracy, precision, and integrity proposed by state-of-the-art solutions. Besides the definition of CEMs and a related protocol, a validation of the approach is proposed through a novel simulation framework. A preliminary analysis of the network performance is presented in the case where CEM and CAM transmissions coexist and are concurrently used to support cooperative vehicle applications.","PeriodicalId":6802,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"1243 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76812908","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}