Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1109/FNWF55208.2022.00037
Kemal Davaslioglu, T. Erpek, Y. Sagduyu
This paper models an end-to-end communications system for the NextG radio access network (RAN) as an autoencoder (AE) subject to interference effects. The transmitter (coding and modulation) and receiver (demodulation and decoding) are represented as deep neural networks (DNNs) of the encoder and decoder, respectively. The AE communications systems is trained with interference training and randomized smoothing to operate under unknown and dynamic interference (jamming) effects. Compared to conventional communications, the AE communications with interference training and randomized smoothing can achieve up to 36 dB interference suppression with a channel reuse of four for the single antenna case. This paper also extends the AE communications formulation to the multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) case under interference effects and shows the bit error rate (BER) improvement compared to conventional MIMO communications.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1109/FNWF55208.2022.00010
K. Katsaros, D. Kaleshi, Anthony Karydis, Luke Kazanis, Kane Rawnsley-Odd, Neil Hooper, Pete Fletcher
The 5G Festival is the world's first live immersive hybrid concert, creating an exciting new business model for music professionals, live venues and artists. Exploiting the benefits of 5G technology, such as enhanced mobile broadband and low latency, artists were able to collaborate remotely, from venues 60 miles apart, while audience were able to experience a live event with enhanced immersive experiences. Artists listening to immersive audio were more tolerant to the affects of latency when compared to stereo, which allows for an increase in the distance achievable between the collaborators. During the live performance more than 200 audio channels and 20 video streams were transferred through the three interconnected venues, providing a professional experience to artists and audience alike. This was possible through intelligent network management and use of multicast audio over IP (AoIP) protocols such as AES67/ST2110-30. Finally, a service platform was developed and optimised in relation to latency over the 5G networks resulting in a near ‘real-time’ user experience including additional features such as bit rate optimisation and automatic network reconnection to improve stability and expandable interfaces for live mixing and visual projections.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1109/FNWF55208.2022.00135
David Witkowski, Tim Page
Wireless technologies have become a fundamental part of our daily life in the 21st century. They connect us to each other and to rich sources of information. They give us the ability to make efficient use of our time, allow us to have remote control over other technologies in our life, and make our lives better in innumerable ways. In order to function, our wireless devices need to connect to cellular sites that provide good coverage both outdoors and indoors. Thus, the success of any wireless network is predicated on successful deployment of equipment and systems. As the number of users grows, and the amount of data transferred increases, the laws of physics and information theory require placement of wireless sites closer to populated areas — creating new challenges for both carriers, site developers, and local governments. Wireless communications facilities cannot be deployed in a vacuum — communication across the product development chain and between private and public entities is critical to enabling practical solutions. This chapter overviews stakeholder perspectives both public and private and begins to examine ways to ensure that all stakeholder perspectives are communicated and understood.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-95717-3_300050
Brian Zahnstecher, E. McCune, Doug Kirkpatrick, Rick Booth, Kirk M. Bresniker, Lin Nease, A. Bandyopadhyay, B. Nordman, F. Carobolante, M. Olsson, Emil Björnson, Laurence McGarry, Steve Allen, Paul Draxler, F. Darema, Mohamed-Slim Alouini
{"title":"Energy Efficiency","authors":"Brian Zahnstecher, E. McCune, Doug Kirkpatrick, Rick Booth, Kirk M. Bresniker, Lin Nease, A. Bandyopadhyay, B. Nordman, F. Carobolante, M. Olsson, Emil Björnson, Laurence McGarry, Steve Allen, Paul Draxler, F. Darema, Mohamed-Slim Alouini","doi":"10.1007/978-3-319-95717-3_300050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95717-3_300050","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":300165,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116801199","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 : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1109/FNWF55208.2022.00119
I. Rincon
This paper describes a multi-variable analysis of cost vs coverage, as decision makers in government look at the relative cost of connecting rural and remote locations against the benefits obtained. Traditional economic models must be adjusted to allow for a fair analysis of the technical options and possible models of coverage offering flexible criteria to adjust funding and service models in different scenarios. It will also look at including the best possible outputs while pursuing the challenging concept of full connectivity in a particular geography.
{"title":"The cost and coverage challenge of connecting rural and remote areas","authors":"I. Rincon","doi":"10.1109/FNWF55208.2022.00119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FNWF55208.2022.00119","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a multi-variable analysis of cost vs coverage, as decision makers in government look at the relative cost of connecting rural and remote locations against the benefits obtained. Traditional economic models must be adjusted to allow for a fair analysis of the technical options and possible models of coverage offering flexible criteria to adjust funding and service models in different scenarios. It will also look at including the best possible outputs while pursuing the challenging concept of full connectivity in a particular geography.","PeriodicalId":300165,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF)","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121030482","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 : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1109/FNWF55208.2022.00067
K. Koutsopoulos, Antoine Simon, B. Ertl, S. Tompros, K. Kapusta, G. Coatrieux, A. Gavras, Giannis Ledakis, Orazio Toscano, S. Covaci, Christoph Thuemmler
This paper presents the details of a novel approach, based on edge and advanced privacy preserving solutions, that tries to accelerate the adoption of personal data federation for the benefit of the evolution of valuable advanced AI models. The approach focuses on the establishment of high degree of trust between data owner and data management infrastructure so that consent in data processing is given by means of functional and enforceable options applicable at all levels of workloads and processes. The overall set of solutions will be delivered as an open-source set of implementations in the context of the PAROMA-MED project.
{"title":"Federated machine learning through edge ready architectures with privacy preservation as a service","authors":"K. Koutsopoulos, Antoine Simon, B. Ertl, S. Tompros, K. Kapusta, G. Coatrieux, A. Gavras, Giannis Ledakis, Orazio Toscano, S. Covaci, Christoph Thuemmler","doi":"10.1109/FNWF55208.2022.00067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FNWF55208.2022.00067","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the details of a novel approach, based on edge and advanced privacy preserving solutions, that tries to accelerate the adoption of personal data federation for the benefit of the evolution of valuable advanced AI models. The approach focuses on the establishment of high degree of trust between data owner and data management infrastructure so that consent in data processing is given by means of functional and enforceable options applicable at all levels of workloads and processes. The overall set of solutions will be delivered as an open-source set of implementations in the context of the PAROMA-MED project.","PeriodicalId":300165,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125858443","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}
To minimize service downtime and ensure high system availability, Telecom companies must react quickly to failures and crashes of network services and applications. In this study, the focus is on the crash reporting process that normally goes through different levels of service support in a telecom company. To speed up this this repairing or recovering process, service support engineers and product developers rely on the analysis of runtime files (logs, traces, performance metrics, etc.) that are attached to crash reports submitted when an incident occurs. However, there is no clear understanding how these files are used and what their impact on the crash fixing time is. In this paper, we conduct an empirical study at Ericsson to study the use of runtime files in the crash resolution process. We tackle various research questions that revolve around the proportion of runtime files in a selected set of crash reports, the relationship between the severity of crashes and the type of files they contain, and the impact of different file types on the time to fix the crashes. We also study the prediction of the attachment of runtime files to crash reports during the creation of the reports. Our ultimate goal is to figure out how to collect enough information in the crash report system for support engineers and product developers to resolve the failures occurring in telecom network quickly and efficiently.
{"title":"A Study on the Use of Runtime Files in Handling Crash Reports in a Large Telecom Company","authors":"Komal Panchal, Fatima Ait-Mahammed, A. Hamou-Lhadj, Zhongwen Zhu, Salman Memon, Alka Isac, Pragash Krishnamoorthy","doi":"10.1109/FNWF55208.2022.00026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FNWF55208.2022.00026","url":null,"abstract":"To minimize service downtime and ensure high system availability, Telecom companies must react quickly to failures and crashes of network services and applications. In this study, the focus is on the crash reporting process that normally goes through different levels of service support in a telecom company. To speed up this this repairing or recovering process, service support engineers and product developers rely on the analysis of runtime files (logs, traces, performance metrics, etc.) that are attached to crash reports submitted when an incident occurs. However, there is no clear understanding how these files are used and what their impact on the crash fixing time is. In this paper, we conduct an empirical study at Ericsson to study the use of runtime files in the crash resolution process. We tackle various research questions that revolve around the proportion of runtime files in a selected set of crash reports, the relationship between the severity of crashes and the type of files they contain, and the impact of different file types on the time to fix the crashes. We also study the prediction of the attachment of runtime files to crash reports during the creation of the reports. Our ultimate goal is to figure out how to collect enough information in the crash report system for support engineers and product developers to resolve the failures occurring in telecom network quickly and efficiently.","PeriodicalId":300165,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121102170","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 : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1109/FNWF55208.2022.00015
J. Nasreddine, Estela Carmona Cejudo, R. Vilalta, Raúl Parada, Philippe Veyssiere, A. Antonopoulos, J. L. Luque, Judit Bastida, Raül González, G. Triantafyllou, Nuria Trujillo Quijada, Jorge García-Hospital, Julian Garbiso, F. V. Gallego
Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) and Future Railway Mobile Communications System (FRMCS) use cases present strict requirements in terms of service end-to-end latencies, data rates, reliability and service availability, posing challenges in the design of 5G network architectures for cross- border scenarios, where current roaming mechanisms introduce large latencies and service disruption times. The EU-funded Horizon 2020 5GMED project proposes a novel 5G network architecture for the Mediterranean corridor cross-border between Spain and France, where the challenges imposed by CAM and FRMCS in cross-border scenarios are addressed. In this paper, we describe cross-border challenges and present the 5GMED network architecture that will be deployed and evaluated in largescale trials.
{"title":"5GMED Architecture for Advanced Automotive and Railway Communication Services in Cross-Border Scenarios","authors":"J. Nasreddine, Estela Carmona Cejudo, R. Vilalta, Raúl Parada, Philippe Veyssiere, A. Antonopoulos, J. L. Luque, Judit Bastida, Raül González, G. Triantafyllou, Nuria Trujillo Quijada, Jorge García-Hospital, Julian Garbiso, F. V. Gallego","doi":"10.1109/FNWF55208.2022.00015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FNWF55208.2022.00015","url":null,"abstract":"Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) and Future Railway Mobile Communications System (FRMCS) use cases present strict requirements in terms of service end-to-end latencies, data rates, reliability and service availability, posing challenges in the design of 5G network architectures for cross- border scenarios, where current roaming mechanisms introduce large latencies and service disruption times. The EU-funded Horizon 2020 5GMED project proposes a novel 5G network architecture for the Mediterranean corridor cross-border between Spain and France, where the challenges imposed by CAM and FRMCS in cross-border scenarios are addressed. In this paper, we describe cross-border challenges and present the 5GMED network architecture that will be deployed and evaluated in largescale trials.","PeriodicalId":300165,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134206542","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 : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1109/FNWF55208.2022.00116
Suryanarayanaraju Pusapati, Bassant Selim, Yimin Nie, Huan-Ting Lin, Wei Peng
The advent of the 5G network provides reliable connectivity, higher throughput, better service quality and more efficient signaling. The network traffic load will continuously rise with more and more mobile users using internet services. In this context, there is a need to forecast wireless network traffic load to manage network resources efficiently and increase network resilience. However, with 5G being at its infancy stage, there is a lack of datasets available and consequently a lack of research on 5G traffic prediction related use cases. To overcome this challenge, simulation software can provide a way to generate 5G network traffic datasets. This paper proposes a simulation framework for New Radio Vehicle-to-Everything (NR-V2X) communications using the 5G simulator $mathbf{OMNeT}++$ with INET, Simu5G, and Veins modules. The performance of a VoIP uplink application is investigated over V2N in two scenarios, namely NRCar and Lumsden.
{"title":"Simulation of NR-V2X in a 5G Environment using OMNeT++","authors":"Suryanarayanaraju Pusapati, Bassant Selim, Yimin Nie, Huan-Ting Lin, Wei Peng","doi":"10.1109/FNWF55208.2022.00116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FNWF55208.2022.00116","url":null,"abstract":"The advent of the 5G network provides reliable connectivity, higher throughput, better service quality and more efficient signaling. The network traffic load will continuously rise with more and more mobile users using internet services. In this context, there is a need to forecast wireless network traffic load to manage network resources efficiently and increase network resilience. However, with 5G being at its infancy stage, there is a lack of datasets available and consequently a lack of research on 5G traffic prediction related use cases. To overcome this challenge, simulation software can provide a way to generate 5G network traffic datasets. This paper proposes a simulation framework for New Radio Vehicle-to-Everything (NR-V2X) communications using the 5G simulator $mathbf{OMNeT}++$ with INET, Simu5G, and Veins modules. The performance of a VoIP uplink application is investigated over V2N in two scenarios, namely NRCar and Lumsden.","PeriodicalId":300165,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132702186","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 : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1109/FNWF55208.2022.00087
Jiangqi Hu, Maxwell Mcmanus, Sabarish Krishna Moorthy, Yuqing Cui, Zhangyu Guan, Nicholas Mastronarde, E. Bentley, Michael J. Medley
To support rigorous and repeatable experimental evaluation of wireless networked systems, the community has made significant efforts to develop experimentation platforms. However, existing platforms primarily focus on the data plane, i.e., the forwarding infrastructure, without explicitly considering the control plane. To fill this gap, in this work we develop NeXT, a software-defined testbed with integrated wireless network simulation, experimentation and optimization capabilities. We first design the data plane, which integrates an event-driven broadband wireless network simulator called UBSim and a software-defined wireless network testing facility called RoboNet. We then design NeXT's control plane, where a software toolchain is developed and deployed to support both traditional model-based optimization and new data-driven control techniques. Finally, we validate the effectiveness of NeXT by considering a series of wireless network optimization and control problems.
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