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Source and network coding on mobile devices
This project concerns the development and implementation of a full functional demonstrator for cooperative wireless networking and network coding, which is a technology for improving performance in wireless networks. An application for distribute a video among nodes forming a cooperative cluster is implemented. The implementation is done for the Maemo platform. In Cellular Controlled Peer-to-Peer (CCP2P) networks, besides being connected to an outside world using cellular links, a group of mobile devices in close proximity form a cooperative cluster contributing their onboard capabilities and resources to exploit them a more efficient way. This project implements this kind of networks. Diverse cooperating phones agree on splitting a video to download and start to receive it through USB from a server (simulating the cellular link). Simultaneously the received data is exchanged over the short-range link using three different transmission schemes: Network coding and broadcast, which were implemented in a previous work, and a new hybrid schema developed as a combination of both, broadcast and network coding. After implementation of the program, tests are carried out, to see the results achieved with this new schema and compare it with the previous ones, in terms of throughput, energy consumption and necessary time to distribute the whole video. The results obtained show an improvement in the three cases for the new hybrid schema, which use broadcast at the beginning, when all the nodes are interested in all the packets, and Network Coding for retransmissions of packets
Game-theoretic Resource Allocation Methods for Device-to-Device (D2D) Communication
Device-to-device (D2D) communication underlaying cellular networks allows
mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets to use the licensed spectrum
allocated to cellular services for direct peer-to-peer transmission. D2D
communication can use either one-hop transmission (i.e., in D2D direct
communication) or multi-hop cluster-based transmission (i.e., in D2D local area
networks). The D2D devices can compete or cooperate with each other to reuse
the radio resources in D2D networks. Therefore, resource allocation and access
for D2D communication can be treated as games. The theories behind these games
provide a variety of mathematical tools to effectively model and analyze the
individual or group behaviors of D2D users. In addition, game models can
provide distributed solutions to the resource allocation problems for D2D
communication. The aim of this article is to demonstrate the applications of
game-theoretic models to study the radio resource allocation issues in D2D
communication. The article also outlines several key open research directions.Comment: Accepted. IEEE Wireless Comms Mag. 201
Device-Centric Cooperation in Mobile Networks
The increasing popularity of applications such as video streaming in today's
mobile devices introduces higher demand for throughput, and puts a strain
especially on cellular links. Cooperation among mobile devices by exploiting
both cellular and local area connections is a promising approach to meet the
increasing demand. In this paper, we consider that a group of cooperative
mobile devices, exploiting both cellular and local area links and within
proximity of each other, are interested in the same video content. Traditional
network control algorithms introduce high overhead and delay in this setup as
the network control and cooperation decisions are made in a source-centric
manner. Instead, we develop a device-centric stochastic cooperation scheme. Our
device-centric scheme; DcC allows mobile devices to make control decisions such
as flow control, scheduling, and cooperation without loss of optimality. Thanks
to being device-centric, DcC reduces; (i) overhead; i.e., the number of control
packets that should be transmitted over cellular links, so cellular links are
used more efficiently, and (ii) the amount of delay that each packet
experiences, which improves quality of service. The simulation results
demonstrate the benefits of DcC
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