LTE-Advanced employs Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM), Carrier Aggregation (CA), Multi Input Multi Output (MIMO), Co-ordinated Multi-Point Transmission (CoMP) and Relay Station state of the art techniques to significantly enhance transmission performance and extend BS service coverage. On the other hand, Femtocell, specified in 3GPP Rel-8, has the advantages of low power consumption, zero-touch PnP, low […]
Read moreAmong the solutions for broadband wireless access (BWA) provisioning, Long Term Evolution (LTE) represents one the most promising technologies. In order to effectively support the tremendous growth of mobile broadband services required by the users of the fifth generation (5G) systems, LTE is claimed to efficiently manage the contemporary presence of traditional unicast and value-added multicast services. […]
Read moreThree types of flexible textile antennas for 2.45 GHz body area network (BAN) are compared in this letter. Two types of conducting materials are used to form radiation patch and ground plane, they are called copper foil tape (CFT, 0.05 mm thickness) and Shieldex (SH, 0.13 mm thickness, 0.009 Ohm surface resistivity). The substrate is […]
Read moreNetwork selection plays an important role in load balancing and radio resources management. In this paper, we use the evolutionary game theory to address the network selection problem in the constrained heterogeneous networks. An indication function is introduced into the payoff function to represent the punishment term. The population dynamics can be obtained by the […]
Read moreFuture wireless networks will face the dual challenge of supporting large traffic volumes while providing reliable service for delay-sensitive traffic. To meet the challenge, relay network has been introduced as a new network architecture for the fourth generation (4G) LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) networks. In this paper, we investigate resource allocation including subcarrier and power allocation for […]
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Full-Duplex Spectrum-Sensing and MAC-Protocol for Multichannel Nontime-Slotted Cognitive Radio Networks
Because of the asynchronization between primary and secondary wireless networks, the synchronization between primary users (PUs) and secondary users (SUs) can be hardly guaranteed in nontime-slotted cognitive radio networks (CRNs). In this paper, we propose a novel framework for multichannel nontime-slotted CRNs, where the PUs randomly access and leave the licensed channels. Since the PUs […]
Read moreThis paper describes an 802.15.6 compliant 2360-2484 MHz multiband transmitter that digitally multiplexes the appropriate phases from an 800 MHz poly-phase filter output to generate π/4 DQPSK signals at 2.4 GHz using injection locking. Modulation at one-third the RF frequency reduces the transmitter power consumption and enables channel selection using an integer-N PLL running at […]
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FRACTAL: A framework for recursive abstraction of SDN control-plane for large-scale production networks
Software-defined networking (SDN) renovates traditional networking systems by replacing a distributed, per-switch control plane with a (logically) centralized one. To design a scalable, highly available SDN control plane, it is inevitable to disseminate the network state to multiple instances horizontally by using measures like replication and partitioning. However, some recent studies reported that it is […]
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Controlling Race Conditions in OpenFlow to Accelerate Application Verification and Packet Forwarding
OpenFlow is a Software Defined Networking (SDN) protocol that is being deployed in many network systems. SDN application verification takes an important role in guaranteeing the correctness of the application. Through our investigation, we discover that application verification can be very inefficient under the OpenFlow protocol since there are many race conditions between the data […]
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Distribution Network Verification for Secure Restoration by Enumerating All Critical Failures
If several feeders are interrupted in a severe accident, distribution networks should be restored by reconfiguring switches automatically with smart grid technologies. Although there have been several restoration algorithms developed to find the new network configuration, they might fail to restore the whole network if the network were critically damaged. The network’s design has to […]
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