Workshops
Sunday, 6 April 2014 9:00 –17:30
Room: Yıldız 3
W1. Self-Organizing Networks (SONETs)
Organizers
- Berna Sayrac (France Télécom, France)
- Mehdi Bennis (University of Oulu, Finland)
- Afef Feki (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France)
- Majed Haddad (INRIA, France)
Publicity Chair
- Mourad Khanfouci (Mitsubishi Electric R&D Europe, France)
Steering Committee
- Kimmo Hiltunen (Ericsson Finland)
- Berna Sayrac (France Télécom Paris, France)
Technical Program Committee
- Anwer Al-Dulaimi (Ryerson University, UK)
- Veronique Capdevielle (Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs France)
- Konstantinos Dimou (Ericsson Research, USA)
- Jyri Hamalainen (Aalto University, Finland)
- Gaoning He (Huawei Technologies, China)
- Marios Kountouris (Supelec, France)
- Thierry Lestable (Sagemcom SAS, France)
- Dusit Niyato, Nanyang (Technological University, Singapore)
- Walid Saad (University of Miami, USA)
Abstract
The ever-increasing need for higher data rates in multimedia services and applications leads to stringent requirements on the bit rate/km2 that next-generation cellular wireless networks are expected to deliver. This increasing trend has urged mobile operators to examine new ways for improving their coverage and boosting their network capacities. A promising approach to this challenge is the dense deployment of short range, low-power and low-cost base stations or access points in conjunction with the macrocellular network, as well as relays, distributed antennas and radio remote heads. However, the CAPital and OPerating EXpenditures (CAPEX and OPEX) of such heterogeneous networks increase with the increasing number of nodes. The solution to this problem is the deployment of Self-Organizing NETworks (SONETs). SONETs represent a novel paradigm based on the deployment of networks with self-organized functionalities. There are significant technical problems that need to be addressed for the successful deployment and operation of SONETs. In particular, time-, frequency- and spatial-domain interference management is a fundamental issue. To deal with increasing peak data demands, SONETs design should be self-organized based on interference/load/congestion levels, dynamically adapting their transmissions and using smart traffic offloading strategies onto licensed/unlicensed bands. The IEEE International Workshop on Self-Organizing NETworks (SONETs) offers an excellent opportunity for academic and industrial researchers to spread and share the latest results and understandings for rendering wireless networks more efficient in terms of capacity, coverage, Quality-of-Service performance and energy consumption.
Program
9:00 – 10:30
Keynote: Colin Willcock (Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany)
Integrated Self-Management for Future Radio Access Networks
SON and Energy Efficiency
Impact of Traffic Growth on Energy Consumption of LTE Networks between 2010 and 2020
Azeddine Gati, Sofia Martinez Lopez, Taoufik En-Najjary (Orange Labs, France)
Improving UE SINR and Networks Energy Efficiency based on Femtocell Self-Optimization Capability
Xinsheng Zhao, Peng Chen (Southeast University, China)
11:00 - 12:30
SON and Optimization
Self-optimization of LTE Mobility State Estimation Thresholds
Jussi Turkka (Magister Solutions Ltd., Finland), Tero Henttonen (Nokia Solutions and Networks, Finland), Tapani Ristaniemi (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
Active Antenna Systems for Centralized Self-Optimization of Capacity in LTE-A
Yasir Khan (Orange Labs, France Télécom, France), Berna Sayrac (Orange Labs, France), Eric Moulines (Paris Tech, France)
Particle Swarm Optimization for Mobility Load Balancing SON in LTE Networks
Zwi Altman (Orange Labs, France), Soumaya Sallem (CEA, France), Ridha Nasri, Berna Sayrac (Orange Labs, France), Maurice Clerc (Independent Consultant, France)
Seamless Mobile Data Offloading in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks Based on IEEE 802.21 and User Experience
Fazil Aykut Tuzunkan (Bahcesehir University, Turkey), Cagri Gungor (Abdullah Gül University, Turkey), Engin Zeydan (AveaLabs, Avea Communication Services, Turkey), Ömer İleri, Salih Ergüt (Avea Communication Services, Turkey)
14:00 – 15:30
Keynote: Ismail Guvenc (Florida International University, USA)
Self Optimization for Next-Generation Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
SON and Performances
Cognitive Packet Network for QoS Adaptation of Asymmetric Connections
Erol Gelenbe, Zarina Kazhmaganbetova (Imperial College, UK)
Performance Analysis of Radio Environment Map Accuracy on Resource Reuse in Multi-channel Cellular Networks
Rudzidatul Dziyauddin (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia), Tim D. Farnham, Mahesh Sooriyabandara (Toshiba Research Europe Limited, UK)
16:00 - 17:30
SON and Learning
SON Coordination for Parameter Conflict Resolution: A Reinforcement Learning Framework
Ovidiu Iacoboaiea (OrangeLabs, ParisTech, France), Berna Sayrac, Sana Ben Jemaa (Orange Labs, France), Pascal Bianchi (Télécom, Paristech, LTCI, France)
Q-CE: Self-Organized Cognitive Engine Based on Q-Learning
Ali Haider Mahdi, Zeeshan Ansar (Ilmenau University of Technology,Germany), Stephen Mwanje (Ilmenau University of Technology, Makerere University, Germany), Oleksandr Artemenko, Andreas Mitschele-Thiel (Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany)
Scenarios for eNodeB and SON Functions Programmability
Imen Grida Ben Yahia (Orange Labs, France), Christian Destré (Orange France Télécom, France), Aurelien Quenot (Orange Labs, France)
Autonomic Load Balancing in the Future Disintegrated and Virtualized Networks
Vincent Foix-Cablé, Manzoor Ahmed Khan (Technical University of Berlin, Germany)
Sunday, 6 April 2014 9:00 –17:30
Room: Elmadağ 1
W2. Interference and Design Issues for Future Heterogeneous Networks (HETNETs)
Organizers
- Hanna Bogucka (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
- Adrian Kliks (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
- Jordi Pérez-Romero (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Technical Program Committee
- Luis M. Correia (IST/INOV-INESC, U. Lisbon, Portugal)
- Merouane Debbah (Supelec, France)
- Nikos Dimirtiou (University of Athens, Greece)
- Pierre Duhamel (CNRS, France)
- Marco Luise (University of Pisa, Italy)
- Gerald Matz (VUT, Austria)
- Sergio Palazzo (University of Catania, Italy)
- Miquel Payaro (CTTC, Spain)
- Andreas Polydoros (University of Athens, Greece)
- Luc Vandendorpe (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
- Andreas Zalonis (University of Athens, Greece)
Abstract
Wireless operators continue to address the increase in wireless resources requested by mobile users. Recently various approaches to that problem have been investigated, one of which assumes the introduction of dedicated small cells, where the considered small geographical area is served by low-range access points (or small base stations) creating a heterogeneous deployment where multiple small cell types coexist, such as picocells, microcells, metrocells, femtocells or WiFi zones. These deployments allow significant capacity enhancements and better coverage conditions that can be particularly beneficial for enhancing the bit rates of the users that are located at the edges of the macrocells. Such advanced topologies composed by multiple cell sizes and involving the combination of different radio access technologies are usually known as heterogeneous networks, or simply as HetNets. Standardization bodies have considered HetNets to be a promising technology for the next generation cellular networks because of their many attractive features and benefits to both network operators and consumers. However, the practical deployment of HetNets still poses some critical issues and challenges, such as the requirement of efficient interference coordination mechanisms to ensure that the mutual interference between different cells is kept below acceptable limits. This workshop aims to address various aspects of interference management and design issues in future heterogeneous networks.
Program
09:00 - 10:30
Deployment Aspects of HetNets
Chair: Jordi Pérez-Romero (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Keynote: Emilio Calvanese Strinatti (CEA, France)
Interference: My Best Friend
Increasing Throughput and Fairness for Users in Heterogeneous Semi-Coordinated Deployments
Plamen Trifonov Semov (Center for TeleInfrastruktur, Denmark), Albena Mihovska (Center for TeleInfrastruktur, Aalborg University, Denmark), Vladimir Poulkov (Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria), Ramjee Prasad (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Scalable LTE Interference Mitigation Solution for HetNet Deployment
Alessandro Chiumento (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, IMEC, Belgium), Sofie Pollin (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, USA), Claude Desset, Liesbet Van der Perre (IMEC, Belgium), Rudy Lauwereins (IMEC, Leuven, Belgium)
11:00 - 12:30
Physical Layer Aspects of HetNets
Chair: Oliver D. Holland (King's College London, UK)
Network Assisted Inter-cell Codeword Cancellation for Interference-limited LTE-A and Beyond
Guangxia Zhou (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany), Wen Xu (Inte, Intel Mobile Communications, Germany), Gerhard Bauch (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany)
Combined Beamforming Design for Underlay Spectrum Sharing
Valentin Rakovic, Daniel Denkovski, Liljana Gavrilovska (Ss Cyril and Methodius University, Macedonia)
Parallel In-band Signal Detection with Self-interference Suppression for Cognitive LTE
Hanwen Cao, Wei Jiang,Thomas Kaiser (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Coordinated Beamforming in Clustered HetNets: System Design and Performance Evaluation
Shirish Nagaraj, Frank Hsieh (NSN, USA), Deepak Pengoria, M.R. Raghavendra (NSN, India), Mark Schamberger (NSN, USA), Michael Honig (Northwestern University, USA)
14:00 - 15:30
Interworking between HetNet Technologies
Chair: Jordi Pérez-Romero (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Keynote: David Lopez-Perez (Bell Laboratories Alcatel-Lucent, UK)
Future Heterogeneous Networks
TVWS Indoor Measurements for HetNets
Adrian Kliks, Pawel Kryszkiewicz (Poznan University of Technology, Poland), Anna Umbert, Jordi Pérez-Romero, Ferran Casadevall (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Very Tight Coupling between LTE and Wi-Fi for Advanced Offloading Procedures
Xavier Lagrange (Institut Mines Télécom, Télécom Bretagne, IRISA, France)
16:00 - 17:30
Radio Resource Management in HetNets
Chair: Xavier Lagrange (Institut Mines Télécom, Télécom, Bretagne, IRISA, France)
Uplink and Downlink Resource Allocation in D2D-enabled Heterogeneous Networks
Francesco Malandrino, Claudio E. Casetti, Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Zana Limani (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Context-aware Radio Resource Management in HetNets
Nikos Dimitriou, Andreas Zalonis, Andreas Polydoros (University of Athens, Greece), Adrian Kliks (Poznan University of Technology, Poland), Oliver D. Holland (King's College London, UK)
IAN: Interference-aware Routing Geometry on Proximity for Cognitive Radio Networks
Tung Le (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA), Gil-Won Lee, Dong Seong Kim (Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Korea)
Resource Allocation Strategy Using Optimal Power Control for Mitigating Two-tier Interference in Heterogeneous Networks
Shovon Pal (North South University, Bangladesh), Toha Ardi Nugraha (Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Korea), Shifath Shams, Atiqur Rahman (North South University, Bangladesh)
Sunday, 6 April 2014 9:00 –17:30
Room: Elmadağ 2
W3. Device-to-Device and Public Safety Communications (WDPC)
Organizers
- Merouane Debbah (SUPELEC, France)
- Ismail Güvenç (Florida International University, USA)
- Walid Saad (University of Miami, USA)
- Murat Yuksel (University of Nevada Reno, USA)
Local Arrangements Chair
- Hasari Celebi (GYTE, Turkey)
Steering Committee
- Neiyer S. Correal (Motorola Solutions, Inc., USA)
- Salih Ergut (AveaLabs, Turkey)
Technical Program Committee
- Sezi Bakim (Turkcell, Turkey)
- Mehdi Bennis (Centre of Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland)
- Enrico Buracchini (Télécom, Italia Lab, Italy)
- Mythri Hunukumbure (Fujitsu Labs of Europe Ltd., UK)
- Omer Ileri (AveaLabs, Turkey)
- Rittwik Jana (AT&T Labs Research, USA)
- Satish C. Jha (Intel Corporation, USA)
- Koushik Kar (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
- Mustafa Karakoc (Turkcell, Turkey)
- Hasan Karaoglu (Cisco Systems, USA)
- Subhash Lakshminarayana (SUPELEC, Singapore)
- Husheng Li (University of Tennessee, USA)
- Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
- Kemal Ozdemir (Sehir University, Canada)
- Francesco Pantisano (European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Italy)
- Omid Semiari (University of Miami, USA)
- Hanbyul Seo (LG Electronics, Korea)
- Abdullah Sevincer (Intel, USA)
- Biplab Sikdar (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
- Meryem Simsek (Florida International University, USA)
- Lingyang Song (Peking University, China)
- Vijaynarayanan Subramanian (Cisco Systems, USA)
- Saurabh Tavildar (Qualcomm, USA)
- Engin Zeydan (AveaLabs, Turkey)
Abstract
Device-to-device (D2D) communications underlaid on wireless cellular networks is viewed as a key technology for providing seamless, high-quality wireless access in next-generation wireless systems. The D2D concept is built around the idea of allowing the wireless devices to communicate with one another via direct D2D links over both the licensed and unlicensed spectrum. Unlike traditional short-range D2D technologies such as Bluetooth or Zigbee, D2D over cellular is expected to provide high capacity and guaranteed QoS over long ranges. D2D is also expected to lead to novel wireless applications such as proximity services and public safety communications. Indeed, D2D is seen as a key feature of 5G wireless systems. However, reaping the benefits of D2D requires handling several challenges, such as interference management, self-organization, network discovery and resource allocation, among others. The goal of this workshop is to bring together academic and industrial researchers to identify and discuss technical challenges and recent results related to D2D and public safety communications. Topics of interest are diverse and include, but are not limited to, the following: resource allocation, neighbor discovery, energy efficiency and multi-hop communications in D2D, mobility, traffic and channel modeling in D2D and public safety communication, game theoretic D2D models, interference management and localization in D2D, experimental results on D2D performance in proximity services and public safety scenarios, and applications of D2D in public safety communications and adjunct domains.
Program
09:00 - 10:30
User Association and Mobility
Chair: Ismail Guvenc (Florida International University, USA)
Keynote: Vincent Lau (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Delay-Aware D2D Networking
Smart Mobility Management for D2D Communications in 5G Networks
Osman N. C. Yilmaz, Zexian Li, Kimmo Valkealahti, Mikko A. Uusitalo, Martti Moisio, Petteri Lunden, Carl Wijting (Nokia Research Center, Finland)
Exploring Social Networks for Optimized User Association in Wireless Small-Cell Networks with Device-to-Device Communications
Muhammad Ikram Ashraf, Mehdi Bennis (University of Oulu, Finland), Walid Saad (University of Miami, USA), Marcos Katz (University of Oulu, Finland)
UE Grouping and Mode Selection for D2D Communications Underlaying a Multicellular Wireless System
Jose Mairton B. da Silva, Jr., Tarcisio F. Maciel, Rodrigo Lopes Batista, Carlos Filipe Moreira e Silva, Francisco R. P. Cavalcanti (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil)
11:00 - 12:30
Public Safety and Resource Allocation
Chair: Murat Yuksel (University of Nevada Reno, USA)
Keynote: Huseyin Arslan (University of South Florida, USA)
Communications When Most Needed: Wireless in Emergency and Disaster Situations
On the Use of Device-to-Device Communications for QoS and Data Rate Enhancement in LTE Public Safety Networks
Elias Yaacoub (Qatar Mobility Innovations Center, Qatar)
GA-based Optimal Resource Allocation and User Matching in Device-to-Device Underlaying Network
Chengcheng Yang, Xiaodong Xu, Jiang Han, Waheed Ur Rehman, Xiaofeng Tao (BUPT, China)
Bandwidth Price Optimization for D2D Communication Underlaying Cellular Networks
Behrouz Maham, Hamed Kebriaei (University of Tehran, Iran), Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
14:00 - 15:30
Scheduling
Chair: Hasari Celebi (GYTE, Turkey)
Keynote: Petar Popovski (Aalborg University, Denmark)
What is in it for D2D in 5G Wireless and Support of Underlay Low-Rate M2M Links?
Distributed Iterative Scheduling for D2D Communications
Seung-Hoon Park, Hyunseok Ryu, Chiwoo Lim (Samsung, Korea)
What Happens with a Proportional Fair Cellular Scheduling when D2D Communications Underlay a Cellular Network?
Rodrigo Lopes Batista, Carlos Filipe Moreira e Silva, Jose Mairton B. da Silva, Jr., Tarcisio F. Maciel, Francisco R. P. Cavalcanti (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil)
Performance Comparison of Resource Allocation Schemes for D2D Communications
Hyunseok Ryu, Seung-Hoon Park (Samsung, Korea)
16:00 – 17:30
Panel Discussion
Research and Standardization Challenges for D2D and Public Safety Communications
Panel Chair: Satoshi Nagata (NTT DOCOMO, Japan)
Panelists:
- Saurabh Tavildar (Qualcomm Research, USA)
- Mythri Hunukumbure (Fujitsu Labs, UK)
- Vincent Lau (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)
- Huseyin Arslan (University of South Florida, USA)
- Petar Popovski (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Sunday, 6 April 2014 9:00 –17:30
Room: Elmadağ 3
W4. IoT Communications and Technologies
Organizers
- Daqiang Zhang (Tongji University, China)
- Minyi Guo (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Technical Program Committee
- Antonio Liotta (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
- Chao Chen (Institute Mines, France)
- Haoyi Xiong (Institute Mines, France)
- Hiroaki Nishi (Keio University, Japan)
- Hongyu Huang (Chongqing University, China)
- Hongzi Zhu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
- Ninghua Sheng (Beihang University, China)
- Jaime Lioret (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain)
- Jianguo Ding (University of Skövde, Sweden)
- Jingyu Zhou (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
- Junchao Ma (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China)
- Qin Zou (Wuhan University, China)
- Quan Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
- Rongbo Zhu (South-Central University for Nationalities, China)
- Sarah Gallacher (University of College Logon, UK)
- Shigeng Zhang (Central South University, China)
- Vaskar Raychoudhury (Indian Institute of Technology at Roorkee, India)
- Gauither Vincent (Institut Mines, France)
- Xu Li (NEC Lab, USA)
- Zhangbing Zhou (China University of Geosciences, China)
- Zhiyong Yu (Fuzhou University, China)
- Zhijun Yang (Middlesex University, UK)
Abstract
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a novel design paradigm envisioned as a network of billions or trillions of machines communicating with one another and rapidly gaining global attention from academia, industry and government. IoT is recognized as one of the most important areas of the future Internet, enabling ubiquitous computing among global networked machines and physical objects. Equipped with auto identification devices such as RFID tags, in addition to sensors, actuators and machine-to-machine (M2M) devices, IoT has applications in a wide variety of areas: smart grid, e-health, intelligent transportation and logistics. The IEEE WCNC 2014 International Workshop on the Internet of Things Communications and Technologies follows the steps of the successful IEEE WiMob 2013 IoT workshop. It aims to provide a forum that brings together researchers from academia and practitioners from industry, as well as standardization bodies and government, to meet and exchange ideas on recent research and future directions for the IoT. The technical discussion focuses on the communications aspects and key enabling technologies for IoT, especially M2M communications and networking, RFID technology and Near Field Communications (NFC).
Program
09:00 - 10:30
Keynote: Henrich Pöhls (University of Passau, Germany)
Integrity -- A Short Tour around Technical and Legal Definitions and the Impact of Integrity
IoT Communications and Technologies I
Analysis of Radio Access Network Performance for M2M Communications in LTE-A at 800 MHz
Fatemah A. Alsewaidi (University of Bristol, UK), Dritan Kaleshi, Angela Doufexi (University of Bristol, UK)
Superframe Division Multi-hop Data Collection with Aggregation on Wi-SUN Profile for ECHONET Lite
Fumihide Kojima, Hiroshi Harada (NICT, Japan)
11:00 - 12:30
IoT Communications and Technologies II
RERUM: Building a Reliable IoT upon Privacy- and Security-enabled Smart Objects
Henrich Pöhls (University of Passau, Germany), Vangelis Angelakis (Linköping University, Sweden), Santiago Suppan, Kai Fischer (Siemens AG, Germany), George Oikonomou (University of Bristol, UK), Elias Tragos (Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, Greece), Rodrigo Diaz Rodriguez (Atos, Spain), Theodoros Mouroutis (Cyta Hellas, Greece)
Robust Online Music Identification using Spectral Entropy in the Compressed Domain
Changqing Yin (Tongji University, China), Wei Li (Fudan University, China), Yuanqing Luo (Tongji University, China), Li-Chuan Tseng (MediaTek Inc., Taiwan)
Fairness Evaluation of Scheduling Algorithms for Dense M2M Implementations
Sahibzada Ali Mahmud, Faizan Khan, Muhammad Ali, Gul Muhammad Khan, (University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar, Pakistan), Faqir Zarrar Yousaf (NEC Laboratories, Europe, Germany)
14:00 - 15:30
Keynote: Ali Zaidi (University of Leeds, UK)
Green IoT: Why Interference-aware Protocol Design is Critical?
IoT Services and Applications
Enabling IoT-empowered Smart Lighting Solutions: A Communication Theoretic Perspective
Syed Ali Raza Zaidi (University of Leeds, UK), Ali Imran (University of Oklahoma, USA), Desmond McLernon, Mounir Ghogho (University of Leeds, UK)
Deploying Parameters of Wireless Sensor Networks in Test Bed Environment
Fariborz Entezami, Christos Politis (Kingston University, UK)
16:00 – 17:30
Panel Discussion
IoT Communication and Technologies: Issues, Methods and Applications
Panelists:
- Mischa Dohler (King's College London, UK) – Panel Chair
- Jesus Alonso-Zarate (Centre Tecnològic de Télécomunicacions de Catalunya, Spain)
- Poehls, Henrich (University of Passau, Germany)
- Faqir Zarrar Yousaf (NEC Laboratories Europe, Heidelberg, Germany)
Sunday 6 April 2014 9:00 – 12:30
Room: Elmadağ 4
W5. Wireless Evolution Beyond 2020
Organizers
- Angeliki Alexiou (University of Piraeus, Greece)
- Christos Politis (Kingston University, UK)
Technical Program Committee
- Angeliki Alexiou (University of Piraeus, Greece)
- Hendrik Berndt (Docomo Euro-Labs, Germany)
- Federico Boccardi (Alcatel-Lucent, Germany)
- Luis Correia (IST Lisbon, Portugal)
- Klaus David (University of Kassel, Germany)
- Mischa Dohler (King’s College London, UK)
- Rarf Irmer (Vodafone, UK)
- Nigel Jeferries (Huawei, UK)
- Eduard Jorswieck (TU Dresden, Germany)
- Shalini Periyalwar (BlackBerry, Canada)
- Christos Politis (Kingston University, UK)
- Vino Vinodrai (Canada)
With the rapid proliferation of advanced wireless communication technologies and services, wireless communications are now facing many emerging challenges, including spectrum demand and network capacity limitations. The subscriber base has grown dramatically, and the world’s economy and society are increasingly dependent on wireless communications. The challenge of this workshop is to identify decisive requirements and user expectations, system concept paradigm shifts, key radio technology enablers, promising research directions and potential regulatory issues that will play an important role in shaping future Wireless Networks in the era beyond 2020.
The workshop is organized by the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF). WWRF’s goal is to encourage global research that will achieve unbounded communications to address key societal challenges for the future. The term “Wireless World” is used in a broad sense to address the support of innovation and business, social inclusion and infrastructural challenges. This will be achieved by creating a range of new technological capabilities from wide-area networks to short-range communications, machine-to-machine communications, sensor networks, wireless broadband access technologies and optical networking, along with increasing intelligence and virtualization in networks. This will support a dependable future Internet of people, knowledge and things and the development of a service universe.
Program
Session 1: “5G Enablers”
Chairpersons: Prof. Angeliki Alexiou (University of Piraeus), Prof. Christos Politis (Kingston University)
09.00 - 9.25
Invited talk: Emil Björnson (Alcatel-Lucent Chair on Flexible Radio, SUPELEC, France, and Department of Signal Processing, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Massive MIMO: Bringing the Magic of Asymptotics to Wireless Networks
09.25 - 09.50
Invited talk: Antoni Gelonch (Department of Signal Theory and Communications, UPC, Spain)
Trends in Wireless Cloud-based Systems
09.50 - 10.10
On the Performance of Transceiver Techniques for the K-User MIMO IFC with LTE-A Turbo Coding
George C. Alexandropoulos, Stylianos Papaharalabos, Constantinos B. Papadias (AIT, Greece).
10.10 - 10.30
On the Optimal Solution for BER Performance Improvement in Dual-Hop OFDM Relay Systems
Enis Kocan, Milica Pejanovic-Djurisic (University of Montenegro), George K. Karagiannidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece).
10.30-11.00
Break
Session 2: “5G Architectures and Performance Evaluation”
Chairpersons: Prof. Angeliki Alexiou (University of Piraeus), Prof. Christos Politis (Kingston University)
11.00 - 11.20
On the Nash Equilibria of Graphical Games for Channel Access in Multihop Wireless Networks
Name, Vaggelis G. Douros, Stavros Toumpis, George C. Polyzos (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)
11.20 - 11.40
Error Analysis for Empirical Path Loss Models In GSM and WCDMA Bands
Blessing Gbemisola, Nasir Faruk, Adeseko Ayeni, (University of Ilorin, Nigeria), Moses Olufemi (Northumbia University, UK)
11.40 - 12.00
Efficient Spectrum Allocation Algorithm for Cognitive Radio Networks in a Shadow Fading Environment
Ayman Sabbah, Mohamed Ibnkahla (Queen's University, Canada)
12.00 - 12.20
RAN Architecture Options and Performance for 5G Network Evolution
Huaning Niu, Clara (Qian) Li, Apostolos Papathanassiou, Geng Wu (Intel Corporation, USA)
12.20 - 12.30
Wrap up and conclusions
Sunday, 6 April 2014, 14:00 – 17:30
Room: Elmadağ 4
W6. Cloud Technologies and Energy Efficiency in Mobile Communication Networks (CLEEN)
Organizers
- Emilio Calvanese Strinati (CEA LETI, France)
- Dario Sabella (Télécom Italia, Italy)
- Thomas Michael Bohnert (Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland)
Technical Program Co-Chairs
- Joseph Vidal (UPC, Spain)
- Sergio Barbarossa (University of Roma, Italy)
Publicity Co-Chairs
- Andreas Maeder (NEC Labs, Germany)
- Youssef Nasser (AUB, Lebanon)
- Felicia Felicia Lobillo Vilela (Atos Research, Spain)
Technical Program Committee
- Ivano Guardini (Télécom Italia, Italy)
- Marco Di Girolamo (HP Italy Innovation Center, Italy)
- Massinissa Lalam (Sagem Communications, France)
- Andreas Maeder (NEC Labs Europe, Germany)
- Henning Paul (University of Bremen, Germany)
- Umer Salim, (Intel Mobile Communications, France)
- Emmanouil Pateromichelakis (University of Surrey, UK)
- Giovanni Stea (University of Pisa, Italy)
- Mauro Boldi (Télécom Italia, Italy)
- Pal Frenger (Ericsson, Sweden)
- Carla Fabiana Chiasserini (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
- Claudio Cicconetti (Intecs, Italy)
- Marcus Mueck (Intel Mobile Communication, Germany)
- Hans-Peter Mayer (Bell-Labs Stuttgart, Alcatel-Lucent, Germany)
- Loreto Pescosolido (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
- Antonio De Domenico (CEA-LETI, Grenoble, France)
- Joseph Vidal (UPC, Spain)
- Sergio Barbarossa (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
- Artur Hecker (Huawei, Munich)
- Kei Sakaguchi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo)
- Merouane Debbah (SUPELEC, Paris, France)
- Zdenek Becvar (CTU, Prague, Czech Republic)
- Seshaiah Ponnekanti (Amrita University, India)
- Loreto Pescosolido (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
- Olga Munoz (UPC, Spain)
Abstract
This workshop explores novel concepts for flexibly centralized radio access networks using cloud processing based on open IT platforms, allowing for a high-quality experience for mobile access to cloud processing resources and services, and providing for a future network evolution focused on energy efficiency and cost effectiveness. In fact, all future innovative network solutions will be conceived and deployed with a long-term perspective of sustainability, both in terms of energy consumption of the mobile network (and related interoperability with terminals) and cost efficiency of the different deployment and management options. This requires new concepts for the design, operation, and optimization of radio access networks, backhaul networks, operation and management algorithms and architectural elements, tightly integrating mobile networks and cloud processing. This workshop addresses technologies across PHY, MAC and network layer. It covers technologies that translate the cloud-computing paradigm to the radio access and backhaul network, and analyzes all the network evolutions from the energy efficiency perspective. It studies the requirements, constraints and implications for mobile communication networks, as well as the potential relationship with the offered service, from both an academic and industrial point of view.
Program
14:00 - 14:50
Welcome and presentation by Workshop Chair (Dario Sabella, Telecom Italia)
14:50 - 15:30Session 1: How cloudy will small cells be?
An Architecture for Mobile Computation Offloading on Cloud-enabled LTE Small Cells
Felicia Lobillo (Atos, Spain), Zdenek Becvar (Czech Technical University Prague, Czech Republic), Miguel Puente (Atos Spain, Spain), Pavel Mach (Czech Technical University Prague, Czech Republic), Francesco Lo Presti (Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy), Fabrizio Gambetti (Dune Srl, Italy), Mariana Goldhamer (Four G CelleX, Israel), Josep Vidal (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain), Anggoro Widiawan (PT. Telekomunikasi Indonesia, Tbk., Indonesia), Emilio Calvanese Strinati (CEA-LETI, France)
Optimal Virtual Machines Allocation in Mobile Femto-cloud Computing: An MDP Approach
Valerio Di Valerio, Francesco Lo Presti (Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy)
16:00 - 17:00
Session 2: How Cloud Computing and Backhauling Constraints Relate to Centralization?
On the Impact of Backhaul Network on Distributed Cloud Computing
Jessica Oueis (CEA-LETI, University of Grenoble, France), Emilio Calvanese Strinati (CEA-LETI, France), Antonio De Domenico (CEA-LETI Minatec, France), Sergio Barbarossa (University of Rome, Italy)
Improving Network Performance via Optimization-based Centralized Coordination of LTE-A Cells
Giovanni Nardini, Giovanni Stea, Antonio Virdis (University of Pisa, Italy), Dario Sabella, Marco Caretti (Telecom Italia, Italy)
Energy Saving Schemes for Self-backhauled Small Cells in LTE-Advanced Networks
Dario Sabella, Marco Caretti, Roberto Fantini (Telecom Italia SpA, Italy)
17:00 - 17:45
Session 3: How to Assess Energy Efficiency?
Energy-Latency Trade-off for Multiuser Wireless Computation Offloading
Olga Muñoz-Medina, Antonio Pascual-Iserte, Josep VidaL, Marc Molina (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Jakub Dolezal, Zdenek Becvar (Czech Technical University Prague, Czech Republic)