A Game Theoretic Approach for Inter-Network Interference Mitigation in Wireless Body Area Networks

Wireless Body Area Network(WBAN) is an emerging technology to provide real-time health monitoring and ubiquitous healthcare services. In many applications, multiple wireless body area networks have to coexist in a small area, resulting in serious inter-network interference. This not only reduces network reliability that is especially important in emergency medical applications, but also consumes more power of WBANs. In this paper, an inter-network interference mitigation approach based on a power control algorithm is proposed. Power control is modeled as a non-cooperative game, in which both inter-network interference and energy efficiency of WBANs are considered. The existence and uniqueness of Nash Equilibrium in the game are proved, and an optimal scheme based on best response is proposed to find its Nash Equilibrium. By coordinating the transmission power levels among networks under interference environment, the total system throughput can be increased with minimum power consumed. The effectiveness of the proposed method has been illustrated by simulation results, where the performance of the proposed approach is evaluated in terms of overall utility and power efficiency and convergence speed.

Dynamic Cell Range Expansion-based Interference Coordination Scheme in Next Generation Wireless Networks

Deploying Picocell Base Station(PBS) throughout a Macrocell is a promising solution for capacity improvement in the next generation wireless networks.However,the strong received power from Macrocell Base Station(MBS) makes the areas of Picocell narrow and limits the gain of cell splitting.In this paper,we firstly propose a Dynamic Cell Range Expansion(DCRE) strategy.By expanding the coverage of the cell,we aim to balance the network load between MBS and PBS.Then,we present a cooperative Resource block and Power Allocation Scheme(coRPAS)based on DCRE.The objective of coRPAS is to decrease interference caused by MBS and Macrocell User Equipments,by which we can expand regions of Picocell User Equipments.Simulation results demonstrate the superiority of our method through comparing with other existing methods.

TD-SCDMA Networking Strategy with Interference Between Indoor and Outdoor Networks

The High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) technology is employed for the data service in the Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA) mobile communication system.Theoretically,the HSDPA peak data throughput per Time Slot (TS) available in the terminals reaches 560kb/s.Since the data service often occurs indoors,flexible TS allocation between uplink and downlink is applied in TD-SCDMA networking.That is,TS1 and TS2 are uplink time slots and TS3,TS4,TS5 and TS6 are downlink time slots in the indoor cell;and symmetry TS allocation is made for the outdoor cell.In the intra-frequency cell network,it can cause intra-frequency interference between cells.So the research on the intra-frequency crossed time slots interference is done and the suggestions on the intra-frequency crossed time slots networking strategy are proposed in this paper.

Grid-based energy-aware routing in wireless sensor networks

The model of energy cost in a wireless sensor network （WSN）environment is built, and the energy awareness and the wireless interference mainly due to different path loss models are studied. A special case of a clustering scheme, a twodimensional grid clustering mechanism, is adopted. Clusterheads are rotated evenly among all sensor nodes in an efficient and decentralized manner, based on the residual energy in the battery and the random backoff time. In addition to transmitting and receiving packets within the sensors＇ electrical and amplification circuits, extra energy is needed in the retransmission of packets due to packet collisions caused by severe interference. By analysis and mathematical derivation, which are based on planar geometry, it is shown that the total energy consumed in the network is directly related to the gridstructure in the proposed grid based clustering mechanism. The transmission range is determined by cluster size, and the path loss exponent is determined by nodal separation. The summation of overall interference is caused by all the sensors that are transmitting concurrently. By analysis and simulation, an optimal grid structure with the corresponding grid size is presented, which balances between maximizing energy conservation and minimizing overall interference in wireless sensor networks.

Joint load balancing and interference coordination in multi-antenna heterogeneous networks

In heterogeneous networks（Het Nets）, it is desirable to offload users from macro cells to small cells to achieve load balancing. However, the offloaded users suffer a strong inter-tier interference. To guarantee the performance of the offloaded users, the interference from macro cells should be carefully managed. In this paper, we jointly optimize load balancing and interference coordination in multi-antenna Het Nets. Different from previous works, instead of almost blank subframes（ABS） on which the macro cells waste time resource, the macro cells suppress the interference to the offloaded users by zero-forcing beamforming（ZFBF） on interference nulling subframes（INS）. Considering user association cannot be conduct frequently, we derive the long-term throughput of users over Rayleigh fading channels while previous works focused on instantaneous rate. From the perspective of the spectrum efficiency and user fairness, we formulate a long-term network-wide utility maximization problem. By decomposing the problem into two subproblems, we propose an efficient joint load balancing and interference coordination strategy. Simulation results show that our proposal can achieve good system performance gains over counterparts in term of the network utility, cell edge throughput and average throughput.

A Novel Interference Modeling Scheme in Cognitive Networks

In this paper,we propose a mathematical model of aggregate co-channel interference over Rayleigh fading in cognitive networks.Unlike the statistical models in the literature that aim at finding the bound or approximation of the interference,the proposed model gives an accurate expression of probability density function(PDF),cumulative distribution function(CDF) and mean and variance of the interference,which takes into account a number of factors,such as spectrum sensing scheme,and spatial distribution of the secondary users(SUs).In particular,we focus on a more general spatial structure where there are two roles of primary users(PUs)and the interfering SUs distributed in the two-dimensional space.The framework developed in this paper is easy to be applied in power control,error evaluation and other applications.

Possible novel roles of poly(rC)-binding protein 1 in SH-SY5Y neurocytes: an analysis using a dynamic Bayesian network

Objective Poly（rC）-binding protein 1 （PCBP1） belongs to the heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein family and participates in transcriptional and translational regulation. Previous work has identified transcripts targeted by both knockdown and overexpression of PCBP1 in SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells using a microarray or ProteomeLabTM protein fractionation 2-dimensions （PF-2D） and quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometer. The present study aimed to further determine whether these altered transcripts from major pathways （such as Wnt signaling, TGF-β signaling, cell cycling, and apoptosis） and two other genes, H2AFX and H2BFS （screened by PF-2D）, have spatial relationships. Methods The genes were studied by qRT-PCR, and dynamic Bayesian network analysis was used to rebuild the coordination network of these transcripts. Results PCBP1 controlled the expression or activity of the seven transcripts. Moreover, PCBP1 indirectly regulated MAP2K2, FOS, FST, TP53 and WNT7B through H2AFX or regulated these genes through SAT. In contrast, TP53 and WNT7B are regulated by other genes. Conclusion The seven transcripts and PCBP1 are closely associated in a spatial interaction network.