Performance Analysis of Micro Unmanned Airborne Communication Relays for Cellular Networks

This paper analyses the potential of utilising small unmanned-aerial-vehicles (SUAV) as wireless relays for assisting cellular network performance. Whilst high altitude wireless relays have been investigated over the past 2 decades, the new class of low cost SUAVs offers new possibilities for addressing local traffic imbalances and providing emergency coverage.We present field-test results from an SUAV test-bed in both urban and rural environments. The results show that trough-to-peak throughput improvements can be achieved for users in poor coverage zones. Furthermore, the paper reinforces the experimental study with large-scale network analysis using both stochastic geometry and multi-cell simulation results.Comment: conferenc

Research challenges in applying intelligent wireless sensors in the oil, gas and resources industries

The monitoring of oil, gas and resources plant performance and the operational environment through sensors allows for greater insight into potential safety problems and operational requirements. Such solutions promote a safe and healthy work environment for all stakeholders and optimized operations. Intelligent techniques and the monitoring of key historical operational properties can be used to realize certain characteristics and patterns in operation data. Such solutions may enhance operational visualization, foresight, forecasting and maintenance schedules for effective and efficient operation and maintenance. This optimizes plant safety, production, turnarounds, shutdowns and maintenance and improves error tolerance and recovery.However, the development of robust devices that are able to perform in these remote and hostile requirements along with the intelligent solutions to structure, store, process and retrieve this information are difficult to realize. This paper investigates the use of wireless sensors and the related intelligent solutions in the oil, gas and resource industries

Cloudlet computing : recent advances, taxonomy, and challenges

A cloudlet is an emerging computing paradigm that is designed to meet the requirements and expectations of the Internet of things (IoT) and tackle the conventional limitations of a cloud (e.g., high latency). The idea is to bring computing resources (i.e., storage and processing) to the edge of a network. This article presents a taxonomy of cloudlet applications, outlines cloudlet utilities, and describes recent advances, challenges, and future research directions. Based on the literature, a unique taxonomy of cloudlet applications is designed. Moreover, a cloudlet computation offloading application for augmenting resource-constrained IoT devices, handling compute-intensive tasks, and minimizing the energy consumption of related devices is explored. This study also highlights the viability of cloudlets to support smart systems and applications, such as augmented reality, virtual reality, and applications that require high-quality service. Finally, the role of cloudlets in emergency situations, hostile conditions, and in the technological integration of future applications and services is elaborated in detail. © 2013 IEEE

Data sharing in secure multimedia wireless sensor networks

© 2016 IEEE. The use of Multimedia Wireless Sensor Networks (MWSNs) is becoming common nowadays with a rapid growth in communication facilities. Similar to any other WSNs, these networks face various challenges while providing security, trust and privacy for user data. Provisioning of the aforementioned services become an uphill task especially while dealing with real-time streaming data. These networks operates with resource-constrained sensor nodes for days, months and even years depending on the nature of an application. The resource-constrained nature of these networks makes it difficult for the nodes to tackle real-time data in mission-critical applications such as military surveillance, forest fire monitoring, health-care and industrial automation. For a secured MWSN, the transmission and processing of streaming data needs to be explored deeply. The conventional data authentication schemes are not suitable for MWSNs due to the limitations imposed on sensor nodes in terms of battery power, computation, available bandwidth and storage. In this paper, we propose a novel quality-driven clustering-based technique for authenticating streaming data in MWSNs. Nodes with maximum energy are selected as Cluster Heads (CHs). The CHs collect data from member nodes and forward it to the Base Station (BS), thus preventing member nodes with low energy from dying soon and increasing life span of the underlying network. The proposed approach not only authenticates the streaming data but also maintains the quality of transmitted data. The proposed data authentication scheme coupled with an Error Concealment technique provides an energy-efficient and distortion-free real-time data streaming. The proposed scheme is compared with an unsupervised resources scenario. The simulation results demonstrate better network lifetime along with 21.34 dB gain in Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) of received video data streams

Transmission of Real-time Video Signal with Interference Density and Human Traffic

The use of mobile phone as a communication tool so rapidly increase, as well as various types of functions therein. Among of the many applications on the mobile phone, which are used skype android-based for teleconferencing via mobile phone. Things can not be separated from these applications is the need of qualified internet network access for these applications can be felt up function. One of the network access to the Internet is widely used today's society is a wi-fi network. Access to the Internet does not always provide the best performance, this is due to many factors, one of which is the presence of interference. In this study, we tested transmission of video signals in real-time using an application skype on the mobile phone. Skype run on wi-fi network, which is influenced by the presence of interference or objects such as human traffic in the network. Wireshark were used to obtain data reliability wi-fi network, known as QoS. While evalvid used to obtain the data QoE restricted only get the data PSNR (Peak Signal To Noise Ratio) and MSE (Mean Square Error)

Studi Eksperimen Pengiriman Sinyal Video Real-Time dengan Aplikasi Skype Mobile pada Jaringan Nirkabel 802.11 di Tengah Interferensi Kepadatan Lalu Lintas Manusia

Penggunaan mobile phone sebagai alat komunikasi sangat demikian pesat peningkatan pengguna serta beragam jenis fungsi yang terdapat didalamnya. Diantara dari sekian banyak aplikasi yang terdapat pada mobile phone adalah Skype berbasis mobile phone OS yang digunakan untuk telekonferensi. Hal yang tidak bisa dilepaskan dari aplikasi ini adalah dibutuhkannya akses jaringan internet yang mumpuni agar aplikasi ini dapat dirasakan maksimal fungsinya. Wi-fi merupakan salahsatu akses internet yang lazim digunakan masyarakat saat ini. Banyak faktor yang menyebabkan akses pada internet yang tersedia tidak selalu memberikan performa yang terbaik, satu diantaranya adalah interferensi. Pada penelitian ini dilakukan sebuah uji coba berupa transmisi sinyal video secara real-time dengan menggunakan aplikasi pada mobile phone yaitu Skype mobile phone OS. Skype ini dijalankan pada jaringan internet wi-fi, yang dipengaruhi atau diinterferensi oleh kehadiran objek (berupa lalu lintas manusia) di sekitar jaringan tersebut. Wireshark digunakan untuk mendapatkan data keandalan jaringan wi-fi yang digunakan atau dikenal dengan QoS. Pada sisi lain EvalVid digunakan untuk mendapatkan data QoE yang dibatasi hanya mendapatkan data PSNR (Peak Signal to Noise Ratio). Video delay time diperhitungkan sebagai acuan kepuasan end user dalam menggunakan layanan konferensi video. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa kepadatan karyawan di dalam ruangan dapat memberikan pengaruh terhadap nilai QoS dan QoE jika kepadatan karyawan itu disertai dengan lalu-lintas karyawan di dalam ruangan tersebut. Namun jika kepadatan karyawan tidak disertai dengan lalu-lintas di dalamnya maka kepadatan karyawan itu sendiri tidak memberikan pengaruh pada parameter yang diukur