Hang Li, Zixuan Kong, Wan Xiang, X. Wen, Zhaoming Lu, Luhan Wang, Yawen Chen, Wenpeng Jing
{"title":"Slice-Based Service Function Chain Embedding with Multiple Factors","authors":"Hang Li, Zixuan Kong, Wan Xiang, X. Wen, Zhaoming Lu, Luhan Wang, Yawen Chen, Wenpeng Jing","doi":"10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9682023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9682023","url":null,"abstract":"Network slicing is a promising technology to provide various services on a common physical network infrastructure. A network slice is a logical virtual network composed of a group of service function chains (SFCs) and the network operator performs SFC embedding (SFCE) to create and orchestrate network slices. Compared to conventional SFCE, implementing slice-based SFCE (SBSFCE) faces some new challenges like diversified requirements of SFCs, inter-slice and intra-slice VNF sharing, and slice priority-based admission control due to the introduction of slice dimension. In this paper, we study the SBSFCE problem jointly considering the above challenges. We formulate the problem and devise a dynamic programming-based heuristic, SBSEA to solve it. The simulation results demonstrate that SBSEA outperforms the existing solution and achieves near-optimal performance.","PeriodicalId":6802,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"65 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":"87913864","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 Beamforming and BS Selection for Energy-Efficient Communications via Aerial-RIS","authors":"Jaime J. L. Quispe, T. Maciel, Y. Silva, A. Klein","doi":"10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9681981","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9681981","url":null,"abstract":"Cooperative BS transmission via unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)-airborne reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), also known as aerial-RIS, is a promising solution for providing connectivity in emergency areas where network access is unavailable. The RIS requires low power in reflecting the impinging base station (BS) signals towards the direction of the user equipment (UE), and the cooperative transmission can provide a more stable connection that guarantees quality-of-service (QoS). In this work, we investigate the energy efficiency (EE) maximization of a multiple-BS single-UE single-aerial-RIS setup and the usefulness of cooperation to prevent outages. The BSs can be turned either on or off depending on their contribution to the EE, and the system is subject to QoS, power, capacity, and RIS specific constraints. We formulate a problem that jointly optimizes the selection of the BSs and the beamforming weights of BSs and RIS, and solve it with a Branch-Reduce-and-Bound (BRnB) algorithm that uses monotonic optimization and semidefinite relaxation steps. Simulation results for an illustrative setup show that the aerial-RIS increases the EE by 50% when doubling the number of its elements and cooperative aerial-RIS transmissions help to solve outages of single-BS cases.","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":"72708262","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}
Ruimin Yuan, J. Fang, Rongchi Xu, B. Bai, Jiaqing Wang
{"title":"A Hybrid MLC and BICM Coded-Modulation Framework for 6G","authors":"Ruimin Yuan, J. Fang, Rongchi Xu, B. Bai, Jiaqing Wang","doi":"10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9682143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9682143","url":null,"abstract":"To meet requirements of higher spectral efficiency and higher throughput in future 6G communications, we propose a hybrid multilevel coding (MLC) and bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) scheme based on the Ungerboeck set partitioning. Then an optimized signal mapper is designed to improve the error-correcting performance. Simulation results show that, when 256-QAM is used, our scheme gains up to 2.5 dB at a BER of 10−5 for the spectral efficiency of 7 bits/s/Hz over AWGN channels compared with the conventional BICM scheme. And the gap may increase further with the use of larger constellations. With the aid of an outer code, our scheme performs 0.5 dB better than the BICM scheme over independent Rayleigh fading channels.","PeriodicalId":6802,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"404 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":"79749709","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":"DTLS with Post-quantum Secure Source Authentication and Message Integrity","authors":"Simpy Parveen, R. Safavi-Naini, Marc Kneppers","doi":"10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9681952","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9681952","url":null,"abstract":"Recent advances in quantum computing and Shor’s discovery of quantum algorithms that efficiently solve computational problems (integer factorization and discrete logarithm problems) form the basis of the Internet cryptographic infrastructure. It has fueled intensive research into the design and development of post-quantum (PQ) cryptographic systems that maintain their security when a quantum computer is built.We consider the PQ security of DTLS (Datagram Transport Layer Security), a communication security protocol that protects against eavesdropping, tampering, and packet forgery for datagrams. DTLS is the UDP counterpart of TLS (Transport Layer Security) and proposed to secure control messages in 5G networks. We offer a novel and efficient approach for providing secure source authentication and message integrity for DTLS that removes the need for a computationally expensive key exchange for message integrity by using PQ TESLA (Timed Efficient Stream Loss-tolerant Authentication) that relies on delayed key release mechanism to provide integrity and use a PQ hash-based signature for providing PQ source authentication. We analyze the security of our design, implement it in a widely used library called TinyDTLS, report the result of our experiments, and propose direction for future research.","PeriodicalId":6802,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"114 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":"75677930","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}
Jiarui Xu, Zhou Zhou, Lianjun Li, Lizhong Zheng, Lingjia Liu
{"title":"RC-Struct: Reservoir Computing Meets Knowledge of Structure in MIMO-OFDM","authors":"Jiarui Xu, Zhou Zhou, Lianjun Li, Lizhong Zheng, Lingjia Liu","doi":"10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9682086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9682086","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces a structure-based neural network architecture, namely RC-Struct, for MIMO-OFDM symbol detection. The RC-Struct exploits the temporal structure of the MIMO-OFDM signals through reservoir computing (RC). A binary classifier is built to perform the multi-class detection by leveraging the repetitive constellation structure in the communication system. The incorporation of RC allows the RC-Struct to be learned in a purely online fashion with extremely limited pilot symbols in each OFDM subframe. The binary classifier efficiently utilizes the precious online training symbols and allows an easy extension to high-order modulations without a substantial increase in complexity. The experiment demonstrates the effectiveness of RC-Struct in the MIMO-OFDM system with the dynamically adapted link. The results shed light on combining communication domain knowledge and learning-based receive processing for 5G and 5G Beyond.","PeriodicalId":6802,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"63 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":"78702951","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}
Jingjing Zhao, Runze Chen, Kaiquan Cai, Yanbo Zhu, Zhu Han
{"title":"RIS-Assisted Air-to-Ground Communications with Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access","authors":"Jingjing Zhao, Runze Chen, Kaiquan Cai, Yanbo Zhu, Zhu Han","doi":"10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9682171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9682171","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) aided air-to-ground uplink cellular network with non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). A major novelty of the proposed framework is that it introduces the new paradigm of flexibility on efficient spectrum sharing between aerial and ground cellular users by taking advantage of the aerial users’ high mobility, reconfigurable wireless environment as well as power-domain multi-user access. With the aim of maximizing network sum rate while guaranteeing users’ quality-of-service (QoS) requirements, a joint problem of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) trajectory and RIS configuration design is formulated. The formulated problem is a sequential decision making one across multiple coherent time slots. Moreover, considering ground users’ random movement in practice, the decision making process involves uncertainties. To solve the formulated problem efficiently, the deep reinforcement learning algorithm is adopted to intelligently adjust the UAV’s trajectory and RIS configuration simultaneously. Numerical results demonstrate that the network sum rate is significantly improved with the proposed NOMARIS scheme compared to conventional orthogonal multiple access (OMA) communication and the case where no RIS is deployed.","PeriodicalId":6802,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"87 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":"78980839","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":"Parity Check Matrix Partitioning for Layered Decoding of QC-LDPC Codes","authors":"Teng Lu, Xuan He, Peng Kang, Xiaohu Tang","doi":"10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9682155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9682155","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose two algorithms to partition the parity check matrices (PCMs) for the layered decoding of quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check (QC-LDPC) codes, which targets to reduce the hardware complexity and computation delay. We formulate the optimization problem of PCM partitioning, and systematically propose the principle of partitioning to guarantee a block cyclic shift property for different decoding layers. After that, we develop both greedy and enumerative partitioning algorithms, aiming at minimizing the maximum column weight of each decoding layer. We further derive a tight lower bound for the minimum achievable maximum column weight, which can help to early terminate a searching process once the lower bound is achieved. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithms are generally capable of achieving the lower bound or differ by one.","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":"79018053","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":"Privacy Preserving Federated RSRP Estimation for Future Mobile Networks","authors":"Omer Haliloglu, Elif Ustundag Soykan, Abdulrahman Alabbasi","doi":"10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9682084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9682084","url":null,"abstract":"Leveraging location information for machine learning applications in mobile networks is challenging due to the distributed nature of the data and privacy concerns. Federated Learning (FL) helps to tackle these issues and is a big step towards enabling privacy-aware distributed model training; however still prone to sophisticated privacy attacks such as membership inference. In this paper, we implement an FL approach to estimate Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) values using geographical location information of the user equipment. We propose a privacy-preserving mechanism using differential privacy to protect against privacy attacks and demonstrate the impacts and the privacy-utility trade-off via privacy accounting measures.","PeriodicalId":6802,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"40 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":"80608764","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}
Arifa Ahmed, Deepak Mishra, G. Prasad, K. L. Baishnab, K. Tourki
{"title":"Primary Activity Awareness Based Secondary Transmission Gains in Smart Sensing CR","authors":"Arifa Ahmed, Deepak Mishra, G. Prasad, K. L. Baishnab, K. Tourki","doi":"10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9681938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9681938","url":null,"abstract":"False alarm and mis-detection probabilities are two major performance bottlenecks on spectrum sensing in cognitive radio (CR) systems. The false alarm leads to throughput loss of the secondary network whereas mis-detection causes interference to the primary network. Another issue with CR environments is that the primary user (PU) activity may change at any moment during the transmission of secondary user (SU) which may cause interference (excluding the interference due to mis-detection). All the aforementioned problems can be addressed if the SU exactly knows the PU’s activity. In this paper, a novel transmission protocol for a multi-antenna SU is proposed to implement smart sensing, where the PU helps SU in obtaining its activity status. Here, the SU gets the exact information of PU’s activity without performing spectrum sensing, therefore, it is expected that the proposed transmission protocol can achieve more throughput since the sensing time overhead and throughput loss due to SU’s false alarm are saved at the cost of paying back to PU for its activity information sharing. Thus, the proposed protocol helps in realizing a smart sensing CR environment by saving the losses that occur due to spectrum sensing. In this work, we have analyzed the performance of the proposed transmission protocol in terms of SU’s average throughput and derived the tight closed-form approximation. Lastly, numerical results validate the analysis and provide insights on the performance gain of our proposed transmission protocol.","PeriodicalId":6802,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)","volume":"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":"75991463","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}