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Conventional correlation-based frame synchronization techniques can suffer significant performance degradation over multi-path frequency-selective channels. As a remedy, in this paper we consider joint frame synchronization and channel estimation. This, however, increases the length of the resulting combined channel and its estimation becomes more challenging. On the other hand, since the combined...
In this paper we consider the broadband-narrowband coexistence scenario where the unused spectral gaps in the professional mobile radio (PMR) frequency band are used for broadband data communications. Spectrally confined filter bank based multicarrier (FBMC) waveform is applied for broadband transmission in order to minimize the interference leakage between the new broadband system and the legacy...
Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications will play a key role in enhancing the throughput, reliability, and security of next generation wireless networks. These advancements are achieved through the large bandwidth available in this band and through the use of highly directional links that will be used to overcome the large pathloss at these frequencies. Although the terrestrial application of mmWave...
Small unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) are expected to take major roles in future smart cities, for example, by delivering goods and merchandise, potentially serving as mobile hot spots for broadband wireless access, and maintaining surveillance and security. Although they can be used for the betterment of the society, they can also be used by malicious entities to conduct physical and cyber attacks...
In this paper, we investigate the propagation coupling loss (captures all sources of attenuation between serving cell and mobile station (MS)) and geometry metric (GM) (downlink average signal-to-interference plus noise ratio) performance of mmWave cellular networks for outdoor and indoor MSs, considering urban micro (UMi) environments. Based on these studies, we identify effective mmWave frequency...
Densely-deployed heterogeneous networks (HetNets) with large number of small cell base stations (SBSs) will constitute one of the main pillars of emerging 5G wireless systems. While such dense deployments of HetNets can help in achieving capacity requirements of 5G networks, they can also result in a significant increase in energy consumption. Since there may not be many associated users in certain...
Dense deployment of small cells is seen as one of the major approaches for addressing the traffic demands in next-generation wireless networks. However, dense deployment of large number of small cells necessitates effective techniques for placing under-loaded small cells into sleep mode, so as to save energy. Such techniques should be low complexity and should not also compromise quality of service...
Large-scale multi-cell multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) is expected to be one of the enabling technologies for fifth generation (5G) time division duplexing (TDD) systems. One of the major challenges faced by this technology is the pilot contamination issue where interference from users in the neighboring cells may significantly impact the performance of the channel estimation process...
The fifth-generation (5G) mobile communication systems will benefit immensely with the extension of their operation to mmWave bands. To this end, understanding the system-level performance of mmWave cellular networks carries critical importance. In this paper, we investigate the average signal-to-interference plus noise ratio (SINR) distribution (geometry) performance for indoor and outdoor mobile...
Due to increase in the number of aging people worldwide, ambient assisted living (AAL) has been recently gaining extensive attention for autonomous monitoring of people in indoor environments. One possible way to fulfill this task is by using ultrawideband (UWB) radars. The UWB signals are ideal for detection, localization and mapping applications due to fine resolution of their multipath components,...
In this paper, experimental results with software defined radios (SDRs) for capturing and localizing WiFi and GSM users are developed. First, a detailed overview on various SDR equipment and software, such as embedded and networked USRPs, WiFi Pineapple, GNU Radio, OpenBTS, and Wireshark is presented. Sufficient details are provided on how to configure and operate the SDR equipment and the associated...
Broadband wireless communication is of critical importance during public safety scenarios as it facilitates situational awareness capabilities for first responders and victims. In this paper, the use of LTE-Unlicensed (LTE-U) technology for unmanned aerial base stations (UABSs) is investigated as an effective approach to enhance the achievable broadband throughput during emergency situations...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used as aerial base stations (BSs) to deliver broadband wireless connectivity during temporary events, at hotspot areas, or after disasters that may destroy existing communication infrastructure. Since UAV- BSs are low power nodes, their efficient placement is important to reap the maximum capacity and coverage benefits from their deployments. By making use of...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to be used extensively in the near future in applications such as aerial surveillance, transportation, and disaster assistance. The conditions under which UAVs operate are different from those of conventional piloted aircrafts. This necessitates development of new air-to-ground (AG) propagation channel models for UAVs. To our best knowledge, there are limited...
It is expected that drones will take a major role in the connected smart cities of the future. They will be delivering goods and merchandise, serving as mobile hot spots for broadband wireless access, and maintaining surveillance and security of smart cities. However, pervasive use of drones for future smart cities also brings together several technical and societal concerns and challenges that needs...
Zone-level occupancy tracking is a critical technology for smart buildings and can be used for applications such as building energy management, surveillance, and security. Existing occupancy tracking techniques typically require installation of large number of occupancy monitoring sensors inside a building as well as an established network. In this study, in order to achieve occupancy tracking, we...
The advent of smart grid introduces abundant number of smart meters which require bidirectional reliable communication. The deployment of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) in smart grid networks will be auspicious if the existing infrastructure of LTE networks can be utilized. On the other hand, use of LTE infrastructure and spectrum by AMIs will further load the already congested broadband wireless...
Ultrawideband (UWB) signals, due to their large bandwidth, can capture the fine temporal resolution of multipath propagation channel. This can be used for extracting geometric information related to the surrounding environment. In particular, Time Domain P410 UWB radios are used in our experiments, for channel sounding in bi-static and monostatic modes. In this paper, UWB radio pulses are used to...
Visible light communication (VLC) systems have significant potential for enabling broadband data rates by relying on existing lighting infrastructure. In this paper, we investigate the performance of multi-element VLC transmitter architecture for different transmitter configurations. In particular, we consider multi- element transmitters with three, seven, and nineteen light emitting diodes (LEDs)...
In wireless cellular networks with densely deployed base stations, knowing the velocities of the user equipments (UEs) is a key for efficient mobility management. A simple and efficient way to estimate a UE's velocity is by counting the number of handovers made by the UE during a predefined time window. Indeed, handover-count based mobility state detection has been standardized since Long Term Evolution...
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