Enabling Sector Scheduling for 5G-CPE Dense Networks

5G customer premise equipment (5G-CPE) is an IoT gateway technology that integrates 5G and Wi-Fi and therefore can provide Wi-Fi connection for IoT devices and meanwhile benefit from the advantages of 5G. With the increasing number of IoT devices, transmission collisions and hidden/exposed terminal problems on the Wi-Fi connection side become more and more serious. Conventional mechanisms cannot solve these problems well. In this paper, we propose a Wi-Fi sector (Wi-FiS) design, which is compatible with Wi-Fi, to solve them fundamentally. Wi-FiS divides the whole coverage area of Wi-Fi into multiple sectors and utilizes beamforming technology and sector-based scheduling to improve system performance of Wi-Fi dense networks. For a single-cell network, Wi-FiS differentiates uplink and downlink operations and totally excludes collision in downlink. For a multicell network, Wi-FiS can avoid hidden and exposed terminal problems, while enabling parallel transmissions among multiple cells. We then develop a theoretical model to analyze Wi-FiS’s throughput. Extensive simulations verify that our theoretical model is very accurate and Wi-FiS can improve system throughput of Wi-Fi dense networks significantly.

Bacterial Sialoglycosidases in Virulence and Pathogenesis

Periodontitis is a chronic inflammatory disease affecting the tissues that surround and support the teeth. In the U. S., approximately 65 million people are affected by this condition. Its occurrence is also associated with many important systemic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and Alzheimer’s disease. Among the most important etiologies of periodontitis is Porphyromonas gingivalis, a keystone bacterial pathogen. Keystone pathogens can orchestrate inflammatory disease by remodeling a normally benign microbiota causing imbalance between normal and pathogenic microbiota (dysbiosis). The important characteristics of P. gingivalis causing dysbiosis are its virulence factors that cause effective subversion of host defenses to its advantage [1], allowing other pathogens to grow. However, the mechanisms involving these processes are poorly understood. However, various microbial strategies target host sialoglycoproteins for immune dysregulation. In addition, the enzymes that break down sialoglycoproteins/sialoglycans are the “sialoglycoproteases”, resulting in exposed terminal sialic acid. This process could lead to pathogen-toll like receptor (TLR) interactions mediated through sialic acid receptor–ligand mechanisms. By assessing the function of P. gingivalis sialoglycoproteases, could pave the way to designing carbohydrate analogues and sialic acid mimetics to serve as drug targets.

Analysis of Access Delay in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks for Multimedia Applications

Mobile ad hoc networks are infrastructure-less wireless networks; all nodes can quickly share information without using any fixed infrastructure like base station or access point. Wireless ad hoc networks are characterized by frequent topology changes, unreliable wireless channel, network congestion, and resource contention. Multimedia applications usually are bandwidth hungry with stringent delay, jitter, and loss requirements. Designing ad hoc networks which support multimedia applications, hence, is considered a hard task. The hidden and exposed terminal problems are the main which consequently reduces the network capacity. Hidden and exposed nodes reduce the performance of the wireless ad hoc networks. Access delay is the major parameter that is to be taken under consideration. Due to hidden and exposed terminal problems, the network suffers from a serious unfairness problem.

Techniques to Enhance the Lifetime of MANET

Now-a-days more and more devices are getting portable. This has encouraged the development of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANET). In addition to device portability, MANET does not require a pre-established network infrastructure. As a result they can be easily deployed in situations like emergency rescue and disaster management. However, there are certain issues that are inherent to MANET such as hidden and exposed terminal problem, limited bandwidth, limited processing and battery power. These issues need to be addressed for successful deployment of MANET. Nodes in MANET are run by battery power. Sometimes, it is difficult to replace and/or re-charge the battery. Therefore, to increase the longevity of the network, the available battery power must be judiciously used. In this chapter we focus on different techniques proposed by various researchers to enhance the lifetime of MANET. Along with the same we also give our own contributions as to maximize network lifetime with the effect use of battery source.