{"title":"Random Access Preamble Design for 3GPP Non-terrestrial Networks","authors":"T. Khan, Xingqin Lin","doi":"10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9681944","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9681944","url":null,"abstract":"Satellite-based non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) can provide connectivity to geographical regions with inadequate cellular coverage. The 3rd Generation Partnership Project is developing specifications for NTNs based on 5G New Radio (NR). The NTN scenario entails large Doppler shifts and long propagation delays as compared to a terrestrial network. This necessitates revisiting the existing NR physical layer including the Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH), which was not designed to operate amid large carrier frequency offsets. In this paper, the design rationale is discussed for an NTN-specific PRACH preamble consisting of two concatenated preambles with different Zadoff-Chu root sequences. Simulation results validate that the proposed PRACH preamble meets the NTN performance requirements in terms of preamble detection, and timing and frequency offset estimation.","PeriodicalId":6802,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"4 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83354651","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":"Artificial Intelligence Enabled Self-healing for Mobile Network Automation","authors":"M. Asghar, F. Ahmed, Jyri Hämäläinen","doi":"10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9681937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9681937","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an artificial intelligence enabled self-healing framework for cell outage detection and compensation in radio access networks. The developed framework consists of three modules, namely cell outage detection, cell outage compensation, and continuous optimization that work in closed-loop to detect outages, trigger recovery actions, and network optimization to minimize the impact of outages on user experience. The outage detection module is based on machine learning algorithms aimed to detect anomalies in the network performance data. Likewise, the cell outage compensation module uses fuzzy logic to determine compensation actions after an outage cell has been detected. The continuous optimization module is tasked with making incremental improvements to the network configuration through a heuristic approach. The developed self-healing framework is validated using a network simulator ns-3 based test environment. Results show the framework is capable of fully recovering from the outage in terms of accessibility and coverage. In addition, the cell edge reference signal received power is recovered by 45%, thereby significantly improving the network performance once the outage is detected.","PeriodicalId":6802,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"49 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":"86180220","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}
Victor Sanchez-Agüero, M. Fas-Millán, F. Valera, I. Vidal, Alejandro Paniagua-Tineo, R. L. D. Silva, J. M. Manjón
{"title":"Multi-interface network framework for UAV management and data communications","authors":"Victor Sanchez-Agüero, M. Fas-Millán, F. Valera, I. Vidal, Alejandro Paniagua-Tineo, R. L. D. Silva, J. M. Manjón","doi":"10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9682019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9682019","url":null,"abstract":"Recent efforts to manage Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) operations in European civilian environments have resulted in the development of U-space, the European Union’s UAS Traffic Management (UTM) concept of operations. This paper presents the primary purposes of the H2020 Labyrinth project (mainly focusing on the communications architecture), which has as its main challenge to create and validate UAV applications through the research and development of path-planning algorithms and new UTM services. In addition, this article performs a preliminary validation of a communications prototype (including three communication alternatives) with real equipment of the National Institute of Aerospace Technology (INTA) of the Spanish Ministry of Defense. The presented results show the functionality of the prototypes and serve as a starting point to develop the requirements defined in the communications architecture.","PeriodicalId":6802,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"26 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":"85912481","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":"Energy Efficiency Framework for Time-limited Contention in the IEEE 802.11ah Standard","authors":"Hamid Taramit, L. Orozco-Barbosa, A. Haqiq","doi":"10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9681998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9681998","url":null,"abstract":"The Restricted Access Window (RAW) mechanism introduced in the IEEE 802.11ah standard aims to address the high channel contention of Internet of Things (IoT) networks. It allows the Access Point (AP) to periodically limit channel access to only one group of stations during a short time interval called RAW slot. Such a time limit prevents the channel access contention from reaching the steady state. Henceforth, we present a renewal theory based analytical model for the time-limited contention within the RAW slot. Furthermore, we construct a counting process to track transmissions within the contention interval and derive closed-form analytical results. As IoT networks are typically composed of battery-powered devices, it is compulsory to manage the energy consumption of the network in order to extend the lifetime of devices. Hence, we analyze and evaluate the energy consumption and energy efficiency during the RAW slot period. Extensive simulations using Matlab software validate the analytical model and prove the effectiveness of our proposals.","PeriodicalId":6802,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"295 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":"79570557","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}
Hyeondeok Jang, Seowoo Jang, Yosub Park, Jungsoo Jung, Juho Lee, Sunghyun Choi
{"title":"SeqNet: Data-Driven PAPR Reduction via Sequence Classification","authors":"Hyeondeok Jang, Seowoo Jang, Yosub Park, Jungsoo Jung, Juho Lee, Sunghyun Choi","doi":"10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9682102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9682102","url":null,"abstract":"To fully exploit Terahertz spectrum for the upcoming 6G communications, peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) reduction plays an important role to enhance power efficiency and extend communication coverage. In this paper, we address the PAPR reduction with a data-driven approach and propose a PAPR reduction neural network, SeqNet, with the aid of a deep learning technique. Inspired by the well-known selected mapping (SLM) scheme, SeqNet finds a phase sequence leading to low PAPR when multiplied to a given modulated symbol block. SeqNet classifies a modulated symbol block into one of phase sequences, which are designed not to affect BER (Bit Error Rate) performance. We also propose, Split-SeqNet which splits the symbol block into multiple segments and finds a phase sequence for each. We perform comparative study with various data-driven PAPR reduction approaches and simulation result shows that SeqNet achieves better PAPR performance than conventional auto-encoder-based scheme, tone-reservation based, DFT-s-OFDM, and OFDM by about 0.2 dB, 0.4 dB, 1.6 dB, and 3.4 dB, respectively, which can be converted into 4.3%, 8.7%, 40.1% and 104.4% improvement of the communication coverage.","PeriodicalId":6802,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"19 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":"78673482","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}
Abbas Yazdinejad, Elnaz Rabieinejad, A. Dehghantanha, R. Parizi, Gautam Srivastava
{"title":"A Machine Learning-based SDN Controller Framework for Drone Management","authors":"Abbas Yazdinejad, Elnaz Rabieinejad, A. Dehghantanha, R. Parizi, Gautam Srivastava","doi":"10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9682027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9682027","url":null,"abstract":"With the advancement of information and communication technology, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), popularly known as drones, have also increased. The drones have been noted for their wide range of applications such as military, search and rescue operation, disaster detection and monitoring, agriculture, and delivery. Each type of drone has different characteristics and functionality based on its application, making them a security threat for some city zone. Therefore, there is an essential need for efficient drone management based on their type and application in different zones. To do this, we proposed a Machine learning (ML) based Software Defined Network (SDN) drone management framework. In this framework, the SDN controller uses ML with the drone’s radio frequency feature to detect its type and application and, according to its application, authenticate it and assign communication rules. SDN controller records authentication information in a DAG-based Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) available for other SDN controllers. When a drone desires to migrate to another zone, the destination SDN controller can achieve authentication information by referring to DAG-based DLT, and there is no need for re-authentication. The experimental result shows authentication delay reduction in our proposed framework. Moreover, we adopted ML algorithms includes Decision Tree (DT), Random Forest (RF), Support Vector Machine (SVM), and Logistic Regression (LR), to evaluate our proposed framework in drone’s type classification. The result shows that the RF algorithm shows the best performance with 92.81% accuracy in the classification of the drone’s type.","PeriodicalId":6802,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"7 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":"88307068","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":"SISO Decoding of U-UV Codes","authors":"Changyu Wu, Li Chen","doi":"10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9682136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9682136","url":null,"abstract":"U-UV structural coding with algebraic component codes can provide competent error-correction performance in the short-to-medium length regime. Constituted by BCH component codes and its ordered statistics decoding (OSD), the successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding of U-UV codes can outperform that of polar codes. However, the current SCL decoding is a soft-in hard-out (SIHO) process. Exploiting its list decoding feature, this paper proposes a soft-in soft-out (SISO) decoding for U-UV codes, providing the key technique for the codes to be further engaged in an iterative system. The proposal is designed based on the recursive structure of U-UV codes and the list decoding feature for both the component and the structural codes. Both the decoding complexity and its soft information transfer characteristics are also shown.","PeriodicalId":6802,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"60 1 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":"78401249","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":"Optimizing the Configuration of Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces using Deep Learning","authors":"C. Sun, Navid Naderializadeh, M. Hashemi","doi":"10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9682108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9682108","url":null,"abstract":"We consider a multi-user wireless network, where a single base station intends to communicate with multiple users by means of an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), and we propose to optimize the IRS configuration using deep learning-based methodologies. In particular, we train a regression deep neural network to predict the communication channel parameters given the IRS configuration vectors. We further re-train this base model using the data of different users in order to maximize a weighted sum-rate objective function. Simulation results demonstrate that our proposed approach is able to optimize the IRS configuration for any unseen test users given their corresponding received signal patterns.","PeriodicalId":6802,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"38 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":"76046859","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":"Network AI Management & Orchestration: A Federated Multi-task Learning Case","authors":"Rongpeng Li, Wenliang Liang, Chenghui Peng, Xueli An, Zhifeng Zhao, Honggang Zhang","doi":"10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9681969","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9681969","url":null,"abstract":"6G treats artificial intelligence (AI) as the corner-stone and fundamental paradigm shift for providing inclusive intelligent services, which requires to natively support the training and reasoning of AI and provide a comprehensive network AI management & orchestration (NAMO) solution. However, NAMO faces many practical challenges like multi-tenant multi-task coordination, heterogeneous resource scheduling, and security & privacy concerns. In this paper, we take the federated multi-task learning as a starting case to demonstrate a promising NAMO solution. In particular, we propose a resource-aware method which leverages a primal-dual relationship to allow no direct up-loading of local data to the edge server and maintain synchronous updates with straggler tolerance. Also, the proposed method could dynamically tune the learning accuracy at devices and the number of federated iterations to obtain a satisfactory training accuracy. Extensive simulation results have demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed method.","PeriodicalId":6802,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"29 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":"76099581","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}
Ziyi Zhou, Oluwakayode Onireti, Lei Zhang, Muhammad Ali Imran
{"title":"Performance Analysis of Wireless Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance Networks Using IEEE 802.11","authors":"Ziyi Zhou, Oluwakayode Onireti, Lei Zhang, Muhammad Ali Imran","doi":"10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9682068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9682068","url":null,"abstract":"Blockchain has achieved great success in cryptocurrency for its peculiarities for security and privacy, which are also important in the wireless network. Therefore, there are growing interests in applying blockchain to the wireless network. Wireless Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT) is considered the most applicable consensus mechanism. However, the existing researches and applications are mostly under wired scenarios. In this paper, we investigated the performance of the wireless PBFT network using IEEE 802.11 under unsaturated situations. The performance is evaluated through three metrics: success probability, delay and throughput. Results suggest that there exists a minimum transmission success probability to achieve the end-to-end performance required for the PBFT consensus protocol.","PeriodicalId":6802,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"115 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":"88693925","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}