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Long Term Evolution Advanced (LTE-A) is the fourth generation (4G) wireless cellular communication standard. A covert channel is a noticeable threat to network security because it is able to transfer data under the overt channel. In this paper, a new class of covert channel coined as SNsteg is proposed, designed for LTE-A system. The SNsteg peculiarly utilizes the feature of Sequence Number (SN) fields...
The mobile devices are becoming the important part in our day to day life. These are now one of the basic needs of our daily life. These devices are used to share the data of interest with one another. Data may be in the form of picture or video clip , news etc. But sometimes , data cannot reach to the user who is interested ,because of delaying of messages. Sometimes nodes do not want to loose their...
Mobile Cloud Computing allows offloading compute-intensive applications execution from resource-constrained mobile devices to more powerful computing resources, i.e., distant cloud servers or cloudlets. This is a challenging issue due to the situations that mobile users may face in such context such as the inconstancy of wireless networks, mobility, server load or battery drain. Most cloudlet-based...
Energy and time effectiveness is a primary consideration for smartphones or mobile devices. Cloud computing has the ability to conserve mobile device's energy by using the concept of computation offloading. Objective of Computation Offloading Decision Making Framework (CODMF) is to reduce energy consumption and response time for a mobile device simultaneously. Execution of computation intensive or...
With the emergence of 3D mobile and VR devices, mobile 3D video services are becoming increasingly important for video service providers, such as Youtube and Netflix, while multi-view 3D videos have the potential to inspire a variety of innovative applications. However, enabling multi- view 3D video services may overwhelm WiFi networks when every view of a video are multicasted. In this paper, therefore,...
We study the data reliability problem for a community of devices forming a mobile cloud storage system. We consider the application of regenerating codes for maintaining a file within a geographically-limited area. Such codes require lower bandwidth to regenerate lost data fragments compared to file replication or reconstruction. We investigate threshold-based repair strategies where data repair is...
This paper investigates spectrum-power trading between a small cell (SC) and a macro-cell (MC), where the SC consumes power to serve the macro-cell users (MUs) in exchange for some bandwidth from the MC. Our goal is to maximize the system energy efficiency (EE) of the SC while guaranteeing the quality of service (QoS) of each MU as well as small cell users(SUs). Specifically, given the minimum data...
Due to the emergence of mobile 3D and VR devices, multi-view 3D videos are expected to play increasingly important roles shortly. Compared with traditional single-view videos, it is envisaged that a multi-view 3D video requires a larger storage space. Nevertheless, efficient caching of multi-view 3D videos in a proxy has not been explored in the literature. In this paper, therefore, we first observe...
Disasters can cause extraordinary service demand by the public. It is imperative that services supporting disaster response perform with minimal degradation during such events. In order to provide adequate service to special users such as first responders, priority treatment mechanisms have to be developed. Priority treatments have been incorporated for earlier wireless technologies, but have to be...
Performance analysis of the combined guard channels and Mobile assisted (M+G) handoff call admission control for two customer types is performed. A wireless cell which serves two types of calls; n-type (narrowband) and w-type (wideband) is considered. The total numbers of channels in the cell are divided into common and reserve channels. Originating calls are only served from the common channels,...
To address the challenge of unprecedented growth in mobile data traffic, ultra-dense network deployment is a cost efficient solution to offload the traffic over some small cells. The overlapped coverage areas of small cells create more than one candidate access points for one mobile station. Signal strength based user association in IEEE 802.11 results in a significantly unbalanced load distribution...
A very common problem in the sensor networks area, where large numbers of sensors transmit data to a single sink node, is reliable transport. As sensors become cheaper and more powerful, sensor networks face the challenge of controlling all these devices in a efficient manner, which naturally leads to a sink-driven transport scheme. In this paper we propose RT-SENMOS, a sink-driven reliable transport...
Over the last decades, there has been a growing interest to Service Oriented Computing (SOC) especially in a mobile environement. Web Services are the most common form of services for implementing SOC. Service Composition is to create a new business process by composing several services in order to fulfill business goals that individual services cannot achieve. The massive use of web services in the...
The smart grid is a modern electricity grid that uses wireless technologies to control and supervise the substation and the electricity generation and consumption sides. Several wireless technologies can be used for smart grid communication such as Long-Term evolution (LTE) and Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX). However, LTE is the most compatible network for the smart grid because...
In the present day wireless communication networks, the main objective is to support different multimedia services with various requirements of Quality of Services and varying bandwidth requirements. The key role in effective resource management of WiMAX network is to enhance the performance of network. Gateway (GW) relocation of Access Service Network (ASN) includes changing the Anchor Point (AP)...
High downlink and uplink speeds are achievable with the aid of LTE. Providing this technology in real life requires scheduling algorithms that will effect the concepts such as throughput and fairness. In this paper some new averaging methods for proportional fair algorithm are proposed. Simulation results show that arithmetic mean method can increase spectral efficiency and fairness performance of...
Recently, many approaches apply light-field image processing on smartphones and wearable devices. A Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) is commonly used to exploit parallelism in such image processing. However, because the access pattern in the light-field application is more sparse than typical stencil applications and does not use all data in a cache line. Furthermore, the data requests to multiple locations...
We experimentally demonstrate bandwidth efficient transmission of 96-IF carriers LTE-A signals with 118-Gb/s CPRI-equivalent rate using 2-GHz bandwidth and intermixing mitigation. After 20-km mobile fronthaul transmission, EVM is below 5% for entire IF carriers.
WiFi offloading has been exploited as a quick and viable solution to decrease the burden on cellular networks. In this paper, we study the problem of deploying new WiFi access points (AP) in a city-wide area for offloading purposes. Different than previous work which look at the problem only from operator's perspective and targets the maximization of offloaded traffic volume, we approach the problem...
EdgeScale is a new platform that leverages serveless cloud computing to enable storage and processing on a hierarchy of data centers positioned over the geographic span of a network between the end-user device and the traditional wide-area cloud datacenter. EdgeScale applications are structured as lightweight stateless handlers that can be rapidely instantiated on demand. EdgeScale provides a scalable...
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