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Analog MIMO Radio-over-Copper: Prototype and Preliminary Experimental Results
Analog Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Radio-over-Copper (A-MIMO-RoC) is an
effective all-analog FrontHaul (FH) architecture that exploits any pre-existing
Local Area Network (LAN) cabling infrastructure of buildings to distribute
Radio-Frequency (RF) signals indoors. A-MIMO-RoC, by leveraging a fully analog
implementation, completely avoids any dedicated digital interface by using a
transparent end-to-end system, with consequent latency, bandwidth and cost
benefits. Usually, LAN cables are exploited mainly in the low-frequency
spectrum portion, mostly due to the moderate cable attenuation and crosstalk
among twisted-pairs. Unlike current systems based on LAN cables, the key
feature of the proposed platform is to exploit more efficiently the huge
bandwidth capability offered by LAN cables, that contain 4 twisted-pairs
reaching up to 500 MHz bandwidth/pair when the length is below 100 m. Several
works proposed numerical simulations that assert the feasibility of employing
LAN cables for indoor FH applications up to several hundreds of MHz, but an
A-MIMO-RoC experimental evaluation is still missing. Here, we present some
preliminary results obtained with an A-MIMO-RoC prototype made by low-cost
all-analog/all-passive devices along the signal path. This setup demonstrates
experimentally the feasibility of the proposed analog relaying of MIMO RF
signals over LAN cables up to 400 MHz, thus enabling an efficient exploitation
of the LAN cables transport capabilities for 5G indoor applications.Comment: Part of this work has been accepted as a conference publication to
ISWCS 201
The Road Ahead for Networking: A Survey on ICN-IP Coexistence Solutions
In recent years, the current Internet has experienced an unexpected paradigm
shift in the usage model, which has pushed researchers towards the design of
the Information-Centric Networking (ICN) paradigm as a possible replacement of
the existing architecture. Even though both Academia and Industry have
investigated the feasibility and effectiveness of ICN, achieving the complete
replacement of the Internet Protocol (IP) is a challenging task.
Some research groups have already addressed the coexistence by designing
their own architectures, but none of those is the final solution to move
towards the future Internet considering the unaltered state of the networking.
To design such architecture, the research community needs now a comprehensive
overview of the existing solutions that have so far addressed the coexistence.
The purpose of this paper is to reach this goal by providing the first
comprehensive survey and classification of the coexistence architectures
according to their features (i.e., deployment approach, deployment scenarios,
addressed coexistence requirements and architecture or technology used) and
evaluation parameters (i.e., challenges emerging during the deployment and the
runtime behaviour of an architecture). We believe that this paper will finally
fill the gap required for moving towards the design of the final coexistence
architecture.Comment: 23 pages, 16 figures, 3 table
Identification of Design Principles
This report identifies those design principles for a (possibly new) query and transformation
language for the Web supporting inference that are considered essential. Based upon these
design principles an initial strawman is selected. Scenarios for querying the Semantic Web
illustrate the design principles and their reflection in the initial strawman, i.e., a first draft of
the query language to be designed and implemented by the REWERSE working group I4
Feeds as Query Result Serializations
Many Web-based data sources and services are available as feeds, a model that
provides consumers with a loosely coupled way of interacting with providers.
The current feed model is limited in its capabilities, however. Though it is
simple to implement and scales well, it cannot be transferred to a wider range
of application scenarios. This paper conceptualizes feeds as a way to serialize
query results, describes the current hardcoded query semantics of such a
perspective, and surveys the ways in which extensions of this hardcoded model
have been proposed or implemented. Our generalized view of feeds as query
result serializations has implications for the applicability of feeds as a
generic Web service for any collection that is providing access to individual
information items. As one interesting and compelling class of applications, we
describe a simple way in which a query-based approach to feeds can be used to
support location-based services
Implementation strategies for efficient media fragment retrieval
The current Web specifications such as HTML still treat video and audio resources as 'foreign' objects on the Web, especially lacking a transparent integration with current Web content. The Media Fragments URI specification is part of various efforts at W3C trying to make media a "first class citizen" on the Web. More specifically, with a Media Fragment URI, one can point to a media fragment by means of a URI, enabling people to identify, share, link, and consume media fragments in a standardized way. In this paper, we propose and evaluate a number of implementation strategies for Media Fragments. Additionally, we present two optimized implementation strategies: a Media Fragment Translation Service allowing to keep existing Web infrastructure such as Web servers and proxies and a fully integrated Media Fragments URI server that is independent of underlying media formats. Finally, we show how multiple bit rate media delivery can be deployed in a Media Fragments aware environment, using our Media Fragments URI server
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