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Enabling UAV Cellular with Millimeter-Wave Communication: Potentials and Approaches
To support high data rate urgent or ad hoc communications, we consider mmWave
UAV cellular networks and the associated challenges and solutions. To enable
fast beamforming training and tracking, we first investigate a hierarchical
structure of beamforming codebooks and design of hierarchical codebooks with
different beam widths via the sub-array techniques. We next examine the Doppler
effect as a result of UAV movement and find that the Doppler effect may not be
catastrophic when high gain directional transmission is used. We further
explore the use of millimeter wave spatial division multiple access and
demonstrate its clear advantage in improving the cellular network capacity. We
also explore different ways of dealing with signal blockage and point out that
possible adaptive UAV cruising algorithms would be necessary to counteract
signal blockage. Finally, we identify a close relationship between UAV
positioning and directional millimeter wave user discovery, where update of the
former may directly impact the latter and vice versa.Comment: This paper explores the potentials and approaches to exploit mmWave
communication to establish a UAV cellular. It is to appear in IEEE
Communications Magazin
Spatio-Temporal Data Mining: A Survey of Problems and Methods
Large volumes of spatio-temporal data are increasingly collected and studied
in diverse domains including, climate science, social sciences, neuroscience,
epidemiology, transportation, mobile health, and Earth sciences.
Spatio-temporal data differs from relational data for which computational
approaches are developed in the data mining community for multiple decades, in
that both spatial and temporal attributes are available in addition to the
actual measurements/attributes. The presence of these attributes introduces
additional challenges that needs to be dealt with. Approaches for mining
spatio-temporal data have been studied for over a decade in the data mining
community. In this article we present a broad survey of this relatively young
field of spatio-temporal data mining. We discuss different types of
spatio-temporal data and the relevant data mining questions that arise in the
context of analyzing each of these datasets. Based on the nature of the data
mining problem studied, we classify literature on spatio-temporal data mining
into six major categories: clustering, predictive learning, change detection,
frequent pattern mining, anomaly detection, and relationship mining. We discuss
the various forms of spatio-temporal data mining problems in each of these
categories.Comment: Accepted for publication at ACM Computing Survey
Millimeter Wave Channel Measurements and Implications for PHY Layer Design
There has been an increasing interest in the millimeter wave (mmW) frequency
regime in the design of next-generation wireless systems. The focus of this
work is on understanding mmW channel properties that have an important bearing
on the feasibility of mmW systems in practice and have a significant impact on
physical (PHY) layer design. In this direction, simultaneous channel sounding
measurements at 2.9, 29 and 61 GHz are performed at a number of
transmit-receive location pairs in indoor office, shopping mall and outdoor
environments. Based on these measurements, this paper first studies large-scale
properties such as path loss and delay spread across different carrier
frequencies in these scenarios. Towards the goal of understanding the
feasibility of outdoor-to-indoor coverage, material measurements corresponding
to mmW reflection and penetration are studied and significant notches in signal
reception spread over a few GHz are reported. Finally, implications of these
measurements on system design are discussed and multiple solutions are proposed
to overcome these impairments.Comment: 13 pages, 8 figures, Accepted for publication at the IEEE
Transactions on Antennas and Propagatio
Modeling, Analysis and Optimization of Multicast Device-to-Device Transmission
Multicast device-to-device (D2D) transmission is important for applications
like local file transfer in commercial networks and is also a required feature
in public safety networks. In this paper we propose a tractable baseline
multicast D2D model, and use it to analyze important multicast metrics like the
coverage probability, mean number of covered receivers and throughput. In
addition, we examine how the multicast performance would be affected by certain
factors like mobility and network assistance. Take the mean number of covered
receivers as an example. We find that simple repetitive transmissions help but
the gain quickly diminishes as the repetition time increases. Meanwhile,
mobility and network assistance (i.e. allowing the network to relay the
multicast signals) can help cover more receivers. We also explore how to
optimize multicasting, e.g. by choosing the optimal multicast rate and the
optimal number of retransmission times.Comment: 14 pages; 8 figures; submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless
Communication
Asymptotic Scaling Laws of Wireless Adhoc Network with Physical Layer Caching
We propose a physical layer (PHY) caching scheme for wireless adhoc networks.
The PHY caching exploits cache-assisted multihop gain and cache-induced
dual-layer CoMP gain, which substantially improves the throughput of wireless
adhoc networks. In particular, the PHY caching scheme contains a novel PHY
transmission mode called the cache-induced dual-layer CoMP which can support
homogeneous opportunistic CoMP in the wireless adhoc network. Compared with
traditional per-node throughput scaling results of
\Theta\left(1/\sqrt{N}\right), we can achieve O(1) per node throughput for a
cached wireless adhoc network with N nodes. Moreover, we analyze the throughput
of the PHY caching scheme for regular wireless adhoc networks and study the
impact of various system parameters on the PHY caching gain.Comment: 15 pages, 12 figures, accepted by IEEE Transactions on Wireless
Communication
Cognitive Internet of Things: A New Paradigm beyond Connection
Current research on Internet of Things (IoT) mainly focuses on how to enable
general objects to see, hear, and smell the physical world for themselves, and
make them connected to share the observations. In this paper, we argue that
only connected is not enough, beyond that, general objects should have the
capability to learn, think, and understand both physical and social worlds by
themselves. This practical need impels us to develop a new paradigm, named
Cognitive Internet of Things (CIoT), to empower the current IoT with a `brain'
for high-level intelligence. Specifically, we first present a comprehensive
definition for CIoT, primarily inspired by the effectiveness of human
cognition. Then, we propose an operational framework of CIoT, which mainly
characterizes the interactions among five fundamental cognitive tasks:
perception-action cycle, massive data analytics, semantic derivation and
knowledge discovery, intelligent decision-making, and on-demand service
provisioning. Furthermore, we provide a systematic tutorial on key enabling
techniques involved in the cognitive tasks. In addition, we also discuss the
design of proper performance metrics on evaluating the enabling techniques.
Last but not least, we present the research challenges and open issues ahead.
Building on the present work and potentially fruitful future studies, CIoT has
the capability to bridge the physical world (with objects, resources, etc.) and
the social world (with human demand, social behavior, etc.), and enhance smart
resource allocation, automatic network operation, and intelligent service
provisioning
A Taxonomy of Peer-to-Peer Based Complex Queries: a Grid perspective
Grid superscheduling requires support for efficient and scalable discovery of
resources. Resource discovery activities involve searching for the appropriate
resource types that match the user's job requirements. To accomplish this goal,
a resource discovery system that supports the desired look-up operation is
mandatory. Various kinds of solutions to this problem have been suggested,
including the centralised and hierarchical information server approach.
However, both of these approaches have serious limitations in regards to
scalability, fault-tolerance and network congestion. To overcome these
limitations, organising resource information using Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network
model has been proposed. Existing approaches advocate an extension to
structured P2P protocols, to support the Grid resource information system
(GRIS). In this paper, we identify issues related to the design of such an
efficient, scalable, fault-tolerant, consistent and practical GRIS system using
a P2P network model. We compile these issues into various taxonomies in
sections III and IV. Further, we look into existing works that apply P2P based
network protocols to GRIS. We think that this taxonomy and its mapping to
relevant systems would be useful for academic and industry based researchers
who are engaged in the design of scalable Grid systems
A Study on Application of Spatial Data Mining Techniques for Rural Progress
This paper focuses on the application of Spatial Data mining Techniques to
efficiently manage the challenges faced by peripheral rural areas in analyzing
and predicting market scenario and better manage their economy. Spatial data
mining is the task of unfolding the implicit knowledge hidden in the spatial
databases. The spatial Databases contain both spatial and non-spatial
attributes of the areas under study. Finding implicit regularities, rules or
patterns hidden in spatial databases is an important task, e.g. for
geo-marketing, traffic control or environmental studies. In this paper the
focus is on the effective use of Spatial Data Mining Techniques in the field of
Economic Geography constrained to the rural areasComment: International Conference on Innovative Computing, information and
communication technology ICICT09; souvenir pp no 6
Intrinsic Point of Interest Discovery from Trajectory Data
This paper presents a framework for intrinsic point of interest discovery
from trajectory databases. Intrinsic points of interest are regions of a
geospatial area innately defined by the spatial and temporal aspects of
trajectory data, and can be of varying size, shape, and resolution. Any
trajectory database exhibits such points of interest, and hence are intrinsic,
as compared to most other point of interest definitions which are said to be
extrinsic, as they require trajectory metadata, external knowledge about the
region the trajectories are observed, or other application-specific
information. Spatial and temporal aspects are qualities of any trajectory
database, making the framework applicable to data from any domain and of any
resolution. The framework is developed under recent developments on the
consistency of nonparametric hierarchical density estimators and enables the
possibility of formal statistical inference and evaluation over such intrinsic
points of interest. Comparisons of the POIs uncovered by the framework in
synthetic truth data to thousands of parameter settings for common POI
discovery methods show a marked improvement in fidelity without the need to
tune any parameters by hand.Comment: 10 pages, 9 figure
Deep Representation Learning for Social Network Analysis
Social network analysis is an important problem in data mining. A fundamental
step for analyzing social networks is to encode network data into
low-dimensional representations, i.e., network embeddings, so that the network
topology structure and other attribute information can be effectively
preserved. Network representation leaning facilitates further applications such
as classification, link prediction, anomaly detection and clustering. In
addition, techniques based on deep neural networks have attracted great
interests over the past a few years. In this survey, we conduct a comprehensive
review of current literature in network representation learning utilizing
neural network models. First, we introduce the basic models for learning node
representations in homogeneous networks. Meanwhile, we will also introduce some
extensions of the base models in tackling more complex scenarios, such as
analyzing attributed networks, heterogeneous networks and dynamic networks.
Then, we introduce the techniques for embedding subgraphs. After that, we
present the applications of network representation learning. At the end, we
discuss some promising research directions for future work
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