scholarly journals A Distributed Testbed for 5G Scenarios: An Experimental Study

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Kazem Chamran ◽  
Kok-Lim Alvin Yau ◽  
Rafidah M. D. Noor ◽  
Richard Wong
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Network Performance ◽  
Software Radio ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Spectrum Efficiency ◽  
Small Cells ◽  
Delivery Ratio ◽  
Processing Unit ◽  
Wireless Medium ◽  
Control Message

This paper demonstrates the use of Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP), together with Raspberry Pi3 B+ (RP3) as the brain (or the decision making engine), to develop a distributed wireless network in which nodes can communicate with other nodes independently and make decision autonomously. In other words, each USRP node (i.e., sensor) is embedded with separate processing units (i.e., RP3), which has not been investigated in the literature, so that each node can make independent decisions in a distributed manner. The proposed testbed in this paper is compared with the traditional distributed testbed, which has been widely used in the literature. In the traditional distributed testbed, there is a single processing unit (i.e., a personal computer) that makes decisions in a centralized manner, and each node (i.e., USRP) is connected to the processing unit via a switch. The single processing unit exchanges control messages with nodes via the switch, while the nodes exchange data packets among themselves using a wireless medium in a distributed manner. The main disadvantage of the traditional testbed is that, despite the network being distributed in nature, decisions are made in a centralized manner. Hence, the response delay of the control message exchange is always neglected. The use of such testbed is mainly due to the limited hardware and monetary cost to acquire a separate processing unit for each node. The experiment in our testbed has shown the increase of end-to-end delay and decrease of packet delivery ratio due to software and hardware delays. The observed multihop transmission is performed using device-to-device (D2D) communication, which has been enabled in 5G. Therefore, nodes can either communicate with other nodes via: (a) a direct communication with the base station at the macrocell, which helps to improve network performance; or (b) D2D that improve spectrum efficiency, whereby traffic is offloaded from macrocell to small cells. Our testbed is the first of its kind in this scale, and it uses RP3 as the distributed decision-making engine incorporated into the USRP/GNU radio platform. This work provides an insight to the development of a 5G network.

scholarly journals An Experimental Study on D2D Route Selection Mechanism in 5G Scenarios

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 387
Author(s):  
Mohammad Kazem Chamran ◽  
Kok-Lim Alvin Yau ◽  
Rafidah Md. Noor ◽  
Celimuge Wu
Keyword(s):  
Base Station ◽  
Small Cells ◽  
Delivery Ratio ◽  
Processing Unit ◽  
Route Selection ◽  
Selection Mechanism ◽  
Data Packets ◽  
End To End Delay ◽  
Macrocell Base Station ◽  
Wireless Medium

This paper demonstrates a route selection mechanism on a testbed with heterogeneous device-to-device (D2D) wireless communication for a 5G network scenario. The source node receives information about the primary users’ (PUs’) (or licensed users’) activities and available routes from the macrocell base station (or a central controller) and makes a decision to select a multihop route to the destination node. The source node from small cells can either choose: (a) a route with direct communication with the macrocell base station to improve the route performance; or (b) a route with D2D communication among nodes in the small cells to offload traffic from the macrocell to improve spectrum efficiency. The selected D2D route has the least PUs’ activities. The route selection mechanism is investigated on our testbed that helps to improve the accuracy of network performance measurement. In traditional testbeds, each node (e.g., Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) that serves as the front-end communication block) is connected to a single processing unit (e.g., a personal computer) via a switch using cables. In our testbed, each USRP node is connected to a separate processing unit, i.e., raspberry Pi3 B+ (or RP3), which offers three main advantages: (a) control messages and data packets are exchanged via the wireless medium; (b) separate processing units make decisions in a distributed and heterogeneous manner; and (c) the nodes are placed further apart from one another. Therefore, in the investigation of our route selection scheme, the response delay of control message exchange and the packet loss caused by the operating environment (e.g., ambient noise) are implied in our end-to-end delay and packet delivery ratio measurement. Our results show an increase of end-to-end delay and a decrease of packet delivery ratio due to the transmission of control messages and data packets in the wireless medium in the presence of the dynamic PUs’ activities. Furthermore, D2D communication can offload 25% to 75% traffic from macrocell base station to small cells.

scholarly journals Highly Reliable Decision-Making Using Reliability Factor Feedback for Factory Condition Monitoring via WSNs

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zafar Iqbal ◽  
Heung-No Lee ◽  
Saeid Nooshabadi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Power Consumption ◽  
Cluster Head ◽  
Base Station ◽  
False Alarms ◽  
Delivery Ratio ◽  
Probability Of Error ◽  
Reliability Factor ◽  
Packet Delivery ◽  
Low Level

Cooperation among sensors in a wireless sensor network, deployed for industrial monitoring in an indoor scenario, is a topic of interest in the smart factory and smart city research. The indoor wireless communication channel is very harsh and the observations of all the sensors cannot be sent reliably to the base station. Failure to transmit correct sensing results to the base station may result in false alarms or missed detection of events. Therefore, we propose a cooperation scheme for the wireless sensors to send the data reliably to the base station. Our aim is to increase the reliability of the received information, reduce the probability of error, lower the overall power consumption, and keep the latency to an acceptable low level. We propose a reliability factor feedback algorithm to adjust the weight of unreliable sensors in the decision-making process. The proposed scheme is analyzed based on its latency, power consumption, and packet delivery ratio. Our results show significant improvement in the reliability of the received data, improved packet delivery, and reduced false alarm ratio for full repetition and cluster head-based cooperation. The power consumption and latency in data transmission are also kept to an acceptable low level.

scholarly journals Designing Efficient Sinkhole Attack Detection Mechanism in Edge-Based IoT Deployment

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 1300
Author(s):  
Sumit Pundir ◽  
Mohammad Wazid ◽  
Devesh Pratap Singh ◽  
Ashok Kumar Das ◽  
Joel J. P. C. J. P. C. Rodrigues ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Network Performance ◽  
False Positive Rate ◽  
Security Analysis ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Attack Detection ◽  
Delivery Ratio ◽  
Performance Parameters ◽  
Detection Mechanism ◽  
Detection Scheme ◽  
Edge Based

The sinkhole attack in an edge-based Internet of Things (IoT) environment (EIoT) can devastate and ruin the whole functioning of the communication. The sinkhole attacker nodes ( S H A s) have some properties (for example, they first attract the other normal nodes for the shortest path to the destination and when normal nodes initiate the process of sending their packets through that path (i.e., via S H A ), the attacker nodes start disrupting the traffic flow of the network). In the presence of S H A s, the destination (for example, sink node i.e., gateway/base station) does not receive the required information or it may receive partial or modified information. This results in reduction of the network performance and degradation in efficiency and reliability of the communication. In the presence of such an attack, the throughput decreases, end-to-end delay increases and packet delivery ratio decreases. Moreover, it may harm other network performance parameters. Hence, it becomes extremely essential to provide an effective and competent scheme to mitigate this attack in EIoT. In this paper, an intrusion detection scheme to protect EIoT environment against sinkhole attack is proposed, which is named as SAD-EIoT. In SAD-EIoT, the resource rich edge nodes (edge servers) perform the detection of different types of sinkhole attacker nodes with the help of exchanging messages. The practical demonstration of SAD-EIoT is also provided using the well known NS2 simulator to compute the various performance parameters. Additionally, the security analysis of SAD-EIoT is conducted to prove its resiliency against various types of S H A s. SAD-EIoT achieves around 95.83 % detection rate and 1.03 % false positive rate, which are considerably better than other related existing schemes. Apart from those, SAD-EIoT is proficient with respect to computation and communication costs. Eventually, SAD-EIoT will be a suitable match for those applications which can be used in critical and sensitive operations (for example, surveillance, security and monitoring systems).

scholarly journals Transmit and Receive Antenna Selection Based Resource Allocation for Self-Backhaul 5G Massive MIMO HetNets

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farah Akif ◽  
Aqdas Malik ◽  
Ijaz Qureshi ◽  
Ayesha Abassi
Keyword(s):  
Network Performance ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Antenna Selection ◽  
Multiple Input Multiple Output ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Base Stations ◽  
Small Cells ◽  
User Association ◽  
Transmit Antenna Selection ◽  
Coverage Area

With the advancement in wireless communication technology, the ease of accessibility and increasing coverage area is a major challenge for service providers. Network densification through Small cell Base Stations (SBS) integration in Heterogeneous Networks (HetNets) promises to improve network performance for cell edge users. Since providing wired backhaul for small cells is not cost effective or practical, the third-Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has developed architecture for self-backhaul known as Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) for Fifth Generation (5G). This allows for Main Base Station (MBS) resources to be shared between SBS and MBS users. However, fair and efficient division of MBS resources remains a problem to be addressed. We develop a novel transmit antenna selection/partitioning technique for taking advantage of IAB 5G standard for Massive Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) HetNets. Transmit antenna resources are divided among access for MBS users and for providing wireless backhaul for SBS. We develop A Genetic Algorithm (GA) based Transmit Antenna Selection (TAS) scheme and compare with random selection, eigenvalue-based selection and bandwidth portioning. Our analysis show that GA based TAS has the ability to converge to an optimum antenna subset providing better rate coverage. Furthermore, we also signify the performance of TAS based partitioning over bandwidth partitioning and also show user association can also be controlled using number of antennas reserved for access or backhaul.

scholarly journals Contract Theory-Based Incentive Mechanism for Full Duplex Cooperative NOMA with SWIPT Communication Networks

Entropy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (9) ◽  
pp. 1161
Author(s):  
Zhenwei Zhang ◽  
Hua Qu ◽  
Jihong Zhao ◽  
Wei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Communication Networks ◽  
Private Information ◽  
Network Performance ◽  
Contract Theory ◽  
Incentive Mechanism ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Matching Theory ◽  
Spectrum Efficiency ◽  
Full Duplex ◽  
User Pairing

Cooperative Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) with Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer (SWIPT) communication can not only effectively improve the spectrum efficiency and energy efficiency of wireless networks but also extend their coverage. An important design issue is to incentivize a full duplex (FD) relaying center user to participate in the cooperative process and achieve a win–win situation for both the base station (BS) and the center user. Some private information of the center users are hidden from the BS in the network. A contract theory-based incentive mechanism under this asymmetric information scenario is applied to incentivize the center user to join the cooperative communication to maximize the BS’s benefit utility and to guarantee the center user’s expected payoff. In this work, we propose a matching theory-based Gale–Shapley algorithm to obtain the optimal strategy with low computation complexity in the multi-user pairing scenario. Simulation results indicate that the network performance of the proposed FD cooperative NOMA and SWIPT communication is much better than the conventional NOMA communication, and the benefit utility of the BS with the stable match strategy is nearly close to the multi-user pairing scenario with complete channel state information (CSI), while the center users get the satisfied expected payoffs.

scholarly journals Heterogeneous networks: Fair power allocation in LTE-A uplink scenarios

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. e0252421
Author(s):  
Reben Kurda
Keyword(s):  
Power Control ◽  
Heterogeneous Networks ◽  
Spectral Efficiency ◽  
Network Performance ◽  
Fractional Power ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Small Cells ◽  
Lte Networks ◽  
Control Approach ◽  
The Impact

Effective management of radio resources and service quality assurance are two of the essential aspects to furnish high-quality service in Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks. Despite the base station involving several ingenious scheduling schemes for resource allocation, the intended outcome might be influenced by the interference, especially in heterogeneous scenarios, where many kinds of small cells can be deployed under the coverage of macrocell area. To develop the network of small cells, it is essential to take into account such boundaries, in particular, mobility, interference and resources scheduling a strategy which assist getting a higher spectral efficiency in anticipate small cells. Another challenge with small cellular network deployment is further analyzing the impact of power control techniques in the uplink direction for the network performance. With that being said, this article investigates the problem of interference in LTE-advanced heterogeneous networks. The proposed scheme allows mitigation inter-cell interference through fractional self-powered control performed at each femtocell user. This study analyzes a scheme with optimum power value that provides a compromise between the served uplink signal within unwanted interference plus noise ratio to enhance spectral efficiency in terms of throughput. In particular, the maximum transmit power for user equipment in uplink direction should be reviewed for small cells as a major contributor to the interference. The simulation results showed that the proposed fractional power control approach can outperform the traditional power control employed as a full compensation mode in small cell uplinks.

scholarly journals Systematic Cluster Head (CH) Selection Through Node-Grade Based Clustering (NGBC) in WSN

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.36) ◽  
pp. 562 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. K. Deepak Keynes ◽  
D. Shalini Punithavathani
Keyword(s):  
Network Performance ◽  
Cluster Head ◽  
Threshold Energy ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Delivery Ratio ◽  
Data Packets ◽  
Computational Ability ◽  
Performance Results ◽  
Ch Selection

As it is well known, in Wireless Sensor Networks, the sensor nodes will be either mobile or static. When mobility is concerned, on the whole network performance could be degraded, since the sensor nodes are furnished with restricted battery power, restricted memory, less computational ability and lower range of communication. So, a mechanism which is effective is needed there for forwarding the data packets with efficient energy management and coverage. With that note, the principle target of this work is to propose systematic method of CH selection based on the factors such as low mobility, density of the nodes and their remaining energy. Moreover, an innovative method called Node-Grade Based Clustering (NGBC) is proposed in this paper so as to select the CHs, studying the node’s energy and position regarding to their Base Station (BS), which will act as a sink for collected information. The CHs are replaced in every round based on its duty cycle on sensor nodes and Threshold Energy Rate (TER). Since the BS evaluates the quantity of every round a CH (Cluster Head) can sustain, it minimizes the quantity of energy consumed and increases the WSN’s lifetime. The results of the simulation demonstrate that the proposed algorithm attains higher coverage, efficiency in energy and network lifetime. Furthermore, the performance results in the work which is proposed, are distinguished with the algorithms proposed previously such as LEACH and HEED using some evaluation metrics like packet delivery ratio, throughput, energy consumption and end-to-end delay to prove the efficiency of energy efficient NGBC.  

scholarly journals Improving the Network Performance using MP-OLSR Protocol for Wireless Ad Hoc Network (MANET)

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 5700-5707
Keyword(s):  
Routing Protocol ◽  
Network Performance ◽  
Clustering Algorithm ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Delivery Ratio ◽  
Multiple Paths ◽  
Demand Routing ◽  
Hoc Networks ◽  
Dynamic Exchange

MP-OLSR is the abbreviation of Multipath (Optimized Link source Routing) Protocol which is also known as hybrid protocol, that helps to increase the path in OLSR which clearly works on “proactive routing protocol” specifically developed for Ad Hoc Networks. Wireless Ah Hoc Networks are one among the emerging technology with many operations. This network has some uniquecharacteristics like shared co-operation, dynamic topology and wireless medium.MP-OLSR protocol has the potential to achieve dynamic exchange of data without relying on one base station or a backbone wired network and it is also capable of handling the intermittent exchange of data to manage the topology information for the network also it maintains the design of on-demand routing table and the packets will be forwarded to multiple paths. Here, we propose an idea for enhancing the Multipath-OLSR by using Clustering Algorithm which helps to avoid link failure and recovering the route and also routing protocol to reduce traffic delay and overhead of network that eventually increases the throughput and delivery ratio of a packet

scholarly journals Performance Analysis of Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Network using MIMO Concept

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 3461-3471
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Network ◽  
Sensor Network ◽  
Network Performance ◽  
Cluster Head ◽  
Residual Energy ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Delivery Ratio ◽  
Malicious Nodes ◽  
Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Network

In a distributed Wireless Communication Technology, the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a technology developing for sensing and performing different monitoring operations. The proposed algorithm dynamically partitions the Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Network (HWSN) in to clusters. On the basis of initial energy, the cluster head (CH) is selected in the first round and residual energy with low draining rate protocol (RELDR) is used in the next round for selecting CH. The CH senses and aggregates the data, these summarized data is processed between the clusters and the link is maintained with the base station. Cluster Authority (CA) is a member node that acts as a supervising node which contains remove list and maintains the attacker information. The Technology Multiple Input and Multiple Output(MIMO) is used in the proposed system which reduces the noise in the signal and improves the network performance. During transmission, the unauthenticated nodes which are responsible for data leakage or any malicious activities are detected by the algorithm and information of these nodes are updated in the remove list of CA. The listed unauthenticated nodes or the black hole attack nodes in CA are removed from the network. The proposed algorithm removes the malicious nodes which are affecting the network performance and reconstructs the network by considering only the legitimate nodes. Experimental results will be analyzed for the network parameters like throughput, delay, energy and Packet delivery ratio and compared with the existing systems.

DEVELOPMENT OF VALUATION METHOD OF THE STATUS OF BASE STATIONS FOR DETERMINING THE NEED OF THEIR UPGRADING

2017 ◽  
pp. 60-70
Author(s):  
Natalya Ivanovna Shaposhnikova ◽  
Alexander Aleksandrovich Sorokin
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Fuzzy Sets ◽  
Cellular Network ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Base Stations ◽  
Valuation Method ◽  
The Status ◽  
Telecommunications Services ◽  
Theory Of Fuzzy Sets

The article consideres the problems of determining the need to modernize the base stations of the cellular network based on the mathematical apparatus of the theory of fuzzy sets. To improve the quality of telecommunications services the operators should send significant funding for upgrading the equipment of base stations. Modernization can improve and extend the functions of base stations to provide cellular communication, increase the reliability of the base station in operation and the functionality of its individual elements, and reduce the cost of maintenance and repair when working on a cellular network. The complexity in collecting information about the equipment condition is determined by a large number of factors that affect its operation, as well as the imperfection of obtaining and processing the information received. For a comprehensive assessment of the need for modernization, it is necessary to take into account a number of indicators. In the structure of indicators of the need for modernization, there were introduced the parameters reflecting both the degree of aging and obsolescence(the technical gap and the backlog in connection with the emergence of new technologies and standards). In the process of a problem solving, the basic stages of decision-making on modernization have been allocated. Decision-making on the need for modernization is based not only on measuring information that takes into account the decision-makers, but also on linguistic and verbal information. Therefore, to determine the need for upgrading the base stations, the theory of fuzzy sets is used, with the help of which experts can be attracted to this issue. They will be able to formulate additional fuzzy judgments that help to take into account not only measuring characteristics, but also poorly formalized fuzzy information. To do this, the main indicators of the modernization need have been defined, and fuzzy estimates of the need for modernization for all indicators and a set of indicators reflecting the need for upgrading the base stations have been formulated.

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