Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) propagation, which widely exists in wireless systems, will degrade the performance of wireless positioning system if it is not taken into consideration in the localization algorithm design. The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) suggests that the probabilities of line-of-sight (LOS) and NLOS are related to the distance between the receiver and the transmitter. In this paper, we propose a Maximum Likelihood Estimator (MLE) for localization, which incorporates the distance dependent LOS/NLOS probabilities. Then, the position error bound is derived using Cramer-Rao Lower Bound (CRLB). Through numerical analysis, the impact of NLOS propagation on the position error bound is evaluated. The performance of our proposed algorithm is verified by real world experimental data.
{"title":"Localization algorithm design and performance analysis in probabilistic LOS/NLOS environment","authors":"Xiufang Shi, Guoqiang Mao, Zaiyue Yang, Jiming Chen","doi":"10.1109/ICC.2016.7510963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2016.7510963","url":null,"abstract":"Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) propagation, which widely exists in wireless systems, will degrade the performance of wireless positioning system if it is not taken into consideration in the localization algorithm design. The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) suggests that the probabilities of line-of-sight (LOS) and NLOS are related to the distance between the receiver and the transmitter. In this paper, we propose a Maximum Likelihood Estimator (MLE) for localization, which incorporates the distance dependent LOS/NLOS probabilities. Then, the position error bound is derived using Cramer-Rao Lower Bound (CRLB). Through numerical analysis, the impact of NLOS propagation on the position error bound is evaluated. The performance of our proposed algorithm is verified by real world experimental data.","PeriodicalId":168709,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)","volume":"59 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128237996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-05-22DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2016.7511493
Nicolò Mazzali, F. Kayhan, B. Shankar
In this paper, we investigate the performance of constellations optimized for transmissions in dual-polar mobile satellite applications. These four-dimensional constellations (inphase and quadrature per polarization) are designed for joint transmission over the two polarizations. Such constellations enhance the reliability of the system by providing certain redundancy into their design. Their performance is compared with transmission of independent 2D constellations over each polarization. As performance metrics, the pragmatic achievable mutual information and the bit error rate have been considered. The gains serve to indicate the need to further investigate 4D constellation design and its application in dual-polar MIMO systems.
{"title":"Four-dimensional constellations for dual-polarized satellite communications","authors":"Nicolò Mazzali, F. Kayhan, B. Shankar","doi":"10.1109/ICC.2016.7511493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2016.7511493","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we investigate the performance of constellations optimized for transmissions in dual-polar mobile satellite applications. These four-dimensional constellations (inphase and quadrature per polarization) are designed for joint transmission over the two polarizations. Such constellations enhance the reliability of the system by providing certain redundancy into their design. Their performance is compared with transmission of independent 2D constellations over each polarization. As performance metrics, the pragmatic achievable mutual information and the bit error rate have been considered. The gains serve to indicate the need to further investigate 4D constellation design and its application in dual-polar MIMO systems.","PeriodicalId":168709,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128652105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-05-22DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2016.7511276
Jiajing Chen, X. Yin, Stephen Wang
In this contribution, a recently conducted measurement campaign is introduced for investigating the characteristics of propagation channels for massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) scenarios in a lecture hall environment. The channel responses for waves of higher frequency band ranging from 13 GHz to 17 GHz was measured with a vertically standing virtual two-dimensional (2-D) 20 × 20 = 400-element planar antenna array at the receiver (Rx) side, and an omni-directional antenna at the transmitter (Tx) side. Measurements were performed for four different locations of the Tx antenna in line-of-sight (LoS) scenarios. The variation of channel characteristics such as the narrowband channel gain, the K-factor and the composite delay spread, across the 2-D array aperture is investigated. The results are important for generating realistic channel realizations for the designing and performance evaluation of the algorithms for massive MIMO communication in the context of the fifth generation (5G) wireless networks.
{"title":"Measurement-based massive MIMO channel modeling in 13–17 GHz for indoor hall scenarios","authors":"Jiajing Chen, X. Yin, Stephen Wang","doi":"10.1109/ICC.2016.7511276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2016.7511276","url":null,"abstract":"In this contribution, a recently conducted measurement campaign is introduced for investigating the characteristics of propagation channels for massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) scenarios in a lecture hall environment. The channel responses for waves of higher frequency band ranging from 13 GHz to 17 GHz was measured with a vertically standing virtual two-dimensional (2-D) 20 × 20 = 400-element planar antenna array at the receiver (Rx) side, and an omni-directional antenna at the transmitter (Tx) side. Measurements were performed for four different locations of the Tx antenna in line-of-sight (LoS) scenarios. The variation of channel characteristics such as the narrowband channel gain, the K-factor and the composite delay spread, across the 2-D array aperture is investigated. The results are important for generating realistic channel realizations for the designing and performance evaluation of the algorithms for massive MIMO communication in the context of the fifth generation (5G) wireless networks.","PeriodicalId":168709,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128690211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-05-22DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2016.7510856
Yi Li, M. C. Gursoy, Senem Velipasalar
Device-to-device (D2D) communication underlaid with cellular networks is a new paradigm, proposed to enhance the performance of cellular networks. By allowing a pair of D2D users to communicate directly and share the same spectral resources with the cellular users, D2D communication can achieve higher spectral efficiency, improve the energy efficiency, and lower the traffic delay. In this paper, transmission mode selection and resource allocation in a time-division multiplexed (TDM) cellular network with one cellular user, one base station, and a pair of D2D users is investigated under rate and queueing constraints. In particular, four possible modes are considered, namely the cellular mode, dedicated mode, uplink reuse mode, and downlink reuse mode. Using tools from stochastic network calculus, the system throughput under statistical queueing constraints is formulated, efficient resource allocation algorithms for all possible modes are proposed, and the influence of the positions of each node and the queueing constraints is analyzed via numerical results. Scenarios and conditions for different modes to be optimal in the sense of maximizing the sum-throughput are identified.
{"title":"Device-to-device communication in cellular networks under statistical queueing constraints","authors":"Yi Li, M. C. Gursoy, Senem Velipasalar","doi":"10.1109/ICC.2016.7510856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2016.7510856","url":null,"abstract":"Device-to-device (D2D) communication underlaid with cellular networks is a new paradigm, proposed to enhance the performance of cellular networks. By allowing a pair of D2D users to communicate directly and share the same spectral resources with the cellular users, D2D communication can achieve higher spectral efficiency, improve the energy efficiency, and lower the traffic delay. In this paper, transmission mode selection and resource allocation in a time-division multiplexed (TDM) cellular network with one cellular user, one base station, and a pair of D2D users is investigated under rate and queueing constraints. In particular, four possible modes are considered, namely the cellular mode, dedicated mode, uplink reuse mode, and downlink reuse mode. Using tools from stochastic network calculus, the system throughput under statistical queueing constraints is formulated, efficient resource allocation algorithms for all possible modes are proposed, and the influence of the positions of each node and the queueing constraints is analyzed via numerical results. Scenarios and conditions for different modes to be optimal in the sense of maximizing the sum-throughput are identified.","PeriodicalId":168709,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128959617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-05-22DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2016.7510675
Muhammad Usman, D. Kliazovich, F. Granelli, P. Bouvry, P. Castoldi
Incorporating energy efficiency into the design of modern communication systems has become an important area of research. However, while most of the proposed solutions are devoted to making network hardware energy efficient, very few works focus on energy efficiency as a fundamental design parameter of network protocols. This paper proposes an analytical model for energy consumption of TCP which relates energy consumption to protocol operation cycles. Based on this model a number of optimization techniques are proposed to reduce energy consumption of TCP. The experiments, performed using NS2 simulations, demonstrate that energy savings can be as high as 93% for multiple TCP flows.
{"title":"A transport layer approach to improve energy efficiency","authors":"Muhammad Usman, D. Kliazovich, F. Granelli, P. Bouvry, P. Castoldi","doi":"10.1109/ICC.2016.7510675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2016.7510675","url":null,"abstract":"Incorporating energy efficiency into the design of modern communication systems has become an important area of research. However, while most of the proposed solutions are devoted to making network hardware energy efficient, very few works focus on energy efficiency as a fundamental design parameter of network protocols. This paper proposes an analytical model for energy consumption of TCP which relates energy consumption to protocol operation cycles. Based on this model a number of optimization techniques are proposed to reduce energy consumption of TCP. The experiments, performed using NS2 simulations, demonstrate that energy savings can be as high as 93% for multiple TCP flows.","PeriodicalId":168709,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129244453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-05-22DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2016.7511280
Nabil Khalid, Ö. Akan
The emerging technology Terahertz Band (0.3-10 THz) communication is envisioned to accommodate high speed wireless communication. Large bandwidth makes it a good candidate for 5G mobile networks. In this paper, fundamental experiments on channel modeling at THz Band are presented with detailed analysis of the setup. The measurement setup consisted of subharmonic mixer and vector network analyzer. Path loss and phase delay measurements from 260 GHz to 400 GHz for different distances, angles of arrival and objects acting as reflectors were examined along with their capacity limits. We have shown that LOS link can reach speeds of terabits per second. In addition, reflections from materials were also examined and results indicated that, in case of signal obstruction, a reflector can be used for establishing NLOS link.
{"title":"Wideband THz communication channel measurements for 5G indoor wireless networks","authors":"Nabil Khalid, Ö. Akan","doi":"10.1109/ICC.2016.7511280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2016.7511280","url":null,"abstract":"The emerging technology Terahertz Band (0.3-10 THz) communication is envisioned to accommodate high speed wireless communication. Large bandwidth makes it a good candidate for 5G mobile networks. In this paper, fundamental experiments on channel modeling at THz Band are presented with detailed analysis of the setup. The measurement setup consisted of subharmonic mixer and vector network analyzer. Path loss and phase delay measurements from 260 GHz to 400 GHz for different distances, angles of arrival and objects acting as reflectors were examined along with their capacity limits. We have shown that LOS link can reach speeds of terabits per second. In addition, reflections from materials were also examined and results indicated that, in case of signal obstruction, a reflector can be used for establishing NLOS link.","PeriodicalId":168709,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129245457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-05-22DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2016.7511392
Mondher Bouazizi, T. Ohtsuki
Most of the state of the art works and researches on the automatic sentiment analysis and opinion mining of texts collected from social networks and microblogging websites are oriented towards the classification of texts into positive and negative. In this paper, we propose a pattern-based approach that goes deeper in the classification of texts collected from Twitter (i.e., tweets). We classify the tweets into 7 different classes; however the approach can be run to classify into more classes. Experiments show that our approach reaches an accuracy of classification equal to 56.9% and a precision level of sentimental tweets (other than neutral and sarcastic) equal to 72.58%. Nevertheless, the approach proves to be very accurate in binary classification (i.e., classification into “positive” and “negative”) and ternary classification (i.e., classification into “positive”, “negative” and “neutral”): in the former case, we reach an accuracy of 87.5% for the same dataset used after removing neutral tweets, and in the latter case, we reached an accuracy of classification of 83.0%.
{"title":"Sentiment analysis: From binary to multi-class classification: A pattern-based approach for multi-class sentiment analysis in Twitter","authors":"Mondher Bouazizi, T. Ohtsuki","doi":"10.1109/ICC.2016.7511392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2016.7511392","url":null,"abstract":"Most of the state of the art works and researches on the automatic sentiment analysis and opinion mining of texts collected from social networks and microblogging websites are oriented towards the classification of texts into positive and negative. In this paper, we propose a pattern-based approach that goes deeper in the classification of texts collected from Twitter (i.e., tweets). We classify the tweets into 7 different classes; however the approach can be run to classify into more classes. Experiments show that our approach reaches an accuracy of classification equal to 56.9% and a precision level of sentimental tweets (other than neutral and sarcastic) equal to 72.58%. Nevertheless, the approach proves to be very accurate in binary classification (i.e., classification into “positive” and “negative”) and ternary classification (i.e., classification into “positive”, “negative” and “neutral”): in the former case, we reach an accuracy of 87.5% for the same dataset used after removing neutral tweets, and in the latter case, we reached an accuracy of classification of 83.0%.","PeriodicalId":168709,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)","volume":"208 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124671876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-05-22DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2016.7511180
H. Yang, Giovanni Geraci, Tony Q. S. Quek
Dense and heterogeneous networks (HetNets) are being deployed to provide better coverage and throughput, thus improving the quality of experience at mobile users. Besides the important implications for energy consumption, the trend towards densification calls for more and more wireless links to forward a massive backhaul traffic into the core network. It is critically important to take into account the presence of a wireless backhaul for the energy-efficient design of HetNets. In this paper, we provide a general framework to analyze the energy efficiency of a two-tier MIMO heterogeneous network with wireless backhaul under spatial multiplexing and dynamic time division duplex. We find that a two-tier HetNet with wireless backhaul can be significantly more energy efficient than a one-tier cellular network. However, this requires the backhaul bandwidth to be carefully allocated according to the network load conditions.
{"title":"MIMO HetNets with wireless backhaul: An energy-efficient design","authors":"H. Yang, Giovanni Geraci, Tony Q. S. Quek","doi":"10.1109/ICC.2016.7511180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2016.7511180","url":null,"abstract":"Dense and heterogeneous networks (HetNets) are being deployed to provide better coverage and throughput, thus improving the quality of experience at mobile users. Besides the important implications for energy consumption, the trend towards densification calls for more and more wireless links to forward a massive backhaul traffic into the core network. It is critically important to take into account the presence of a wireless backhaul for the energy-efficient design of HetNets. In this paper, we provide a general framework to analyze the energy efficiency of a two-tier MIMO heterogeneous network with wireless backhaul under spatial multiplexing and dynamic time division duplex. We find that a two-tier HetNet with wireless backhaul can be significantly more energy efficient than a one-tier cellular network. However, this requires the backhaul bandwidth to be carefully allocated according to the network load conditions.","PeriodicalId":168709,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124958302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-05-22DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2016.7511441
Guodong Wang, Yanxiao Zhao, Jun Huang, Q. Duan, Jun Yu Li
Software Defined Networking (SDN), the novel paradigm of decoupling the control logic from packet forwarding devices, has been drawing considerable attention from both academia and industry. As the latency between a controller and switches is a significant factor for SDN, selecting appropriate locations for controllers to shorten the latency becomes one grand challenge. In this paper, we investigate multi-controller placement problem from the perspective of latency minimization. Distinct from previous works, the network partition technique is introduced to simplify the problem. Specifically, the network partition problem and the controller placement problem are first formulated. An optimized K-means algorithm is then proposed to address the problem. Extensive simulations are conducted and results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can remarkably reduce the maximum latency between centroid and their nodes compared with the standard K-means. Specifically, the maximum latency can reach 2.437 times shorter than the average latency achieved by the standard K-means.
{"title":"A K-means-based network partition algorithm for controller placement in software defined network","authors":"Guodong Wang, Yanxiao Zhao, Jun Huang, Q. Duan, Jun Yu Li","doi":"10.1109/ICC.2016.7511441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2016.7511441","url":null,"abstract":"Software Defined Networking (SDN), the novel paradigm of decoupling the control logic from packet forwarding devices, has been drawing considerable attention from both academia and industry. As the latency between a controller and switches is a significant factor for SDN, selecting appropriate locations for controllers to shorten the latency becomes one grand challenge. In this paper, we investigate multi-controller placement problem from the perspective of latency minimization. Distinct from previous works, the network partition technique is introduced to simplify the problem. Specifically, the network partition problem and the controller placement problem are first formulated. An optimized K-means algorithm is then proposed to address the problem. Extensive simulations are conducted and results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can remarkably reduce the maximum latency between centroid and their nodes compared with the standard K-means. Specifically, the maximum latency can reach 2.437 times shorter than the average latency achieved by the standard K-means.","PeriodicalId":168709,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129480298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-05-22DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2016.7510781
Raúl Palacios, Biniam Hailu Dabi, J. Alonso-Zarate, F. Granelli, F. Fitzek, N. Fonseca
It has been shown in the literature that Network Coding (NC) can boost the performance of wireless networks. However, to really obtain the potential gain of NC, efficient Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols that operate with awareness of the NC functions are necessary. In this paper, we propose a novel NC-aware MAC protocol for IEEE 802.11 wireless networks that combines k-batch transmissions and multiple receiver-initiated reverse direction exchanges involving NC data to boost the overall network performance. The proposed protocol allows any node to transmit a burst of data packets in a single channel access invocation. Then, an intermediate node can transmit an NC data packet when receiving a valid data packet from a source node, without contending for channel access. Both analytical and simulation results presented in this paper show the high throughput and energy efficiency of the proposed protocol with gains ranging from 33% to 298% when compared to existing mechanisms based on the IEEE 802.11 Standard.
{"title":"Network coding-aware IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol using batch transmissions and multiple reverse direction exchanges","authors":"Raúl Palacios, Biniam Hailu Dabi, J. Alonso-Zarate, F. Granelli, F. Fitzek, N. Fonseca","doi":"10.1109/ICC.2016.7510781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2016.7510781","url":null,"abstract":"It has been shown in the literature that Network Coding (NC) can boost the performance of wireless networks. However, to really obtain the potential gain of NC, efficient Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols that operate with awareness of the NC functions are necessary. In this paper, we propose a novel NC-aware MAC protocol for IEEE 802.11 wireless networks that combines k-batch transmissions and multiple receiver-initiated reverse direction exchanges involving NC data to boost the overall network performance. The proposed protocol allows any node to transmit a burst of data packets in a single channel access invocation. Then, an intermediate node can transmit an NC data packet when receiving a valid data packet from a source node, without contending for channel access. Both analytical and simulation results presented in this paper show the high throughput and energy efficiency of the proposed protocol with gains ranging from 33% to 298% when compared to existing mechanisms based on the IEEE 802.11 Standard.","PeriodicalId":168709,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129732245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}