Privacy is becoming one of the most notable challenges threatening wireless sensor networks(WSNs).Adversaries may use RF(radio frequency) localization techniques to perform hop-by-hop trace back to the source sensor...Privacy is becoming one of the most notable challenges threatening wireless sensor networks(WSNs).Adversaries may use RF(radio frequency) localization techniques to perform hop-by-hop trace back to the source sensor's location.A multiple k-hop clusters based routing strategy(MHCR) is proposed to preserve source-location privacy as well as enhance energy efficiency for WSNs.Owing to the inherent characteristics of intra-cluster data aggregation,each sensor of the interference clusters is able to act as a fake source to confuse the adversary.Moreover,dummy traffic could be filtered efficiently by the cluster heads during the data aggregation,ensuring no energy consumption be burdened in the hotspot of the network.Through careful analysis and calculation on the distribution and the number of interference clusters,energy efficiency is significantly enhanced without reducing the network lifetime.Finally,the security and delay performance of MHCR scheme are theoretically analyzed.Extensive analysis and simulation results demonstrate that MHCR scheme can improve both the location privacy security and energy efficiency markedly,especially in large-scale WSNs.展开更多
Wireless sensor network is becoming more and more popular in recent years, but energy- constrained characteristic of sensor nodes is one of the critical issues that we must consider in system design. In this paper, a ...Wireless sensor network is becoming more and more popular in recent years, but energy- constrained characteristic of sensor nodes is one of the critical issues that we must consider in system design. In this paper, a cluster-based virtual VBLAST transmission scheme is proposed to achieve energy savings for energy-constrained wireless sensor networks. In the proposed scheme, instead of using cluster member as cooperative nodes, multiple cluster heads cooperate to form virtual antenna array so that V-BLAST based virtual MIMO transmission can be implemented. Based on the communication energy consumption model, a way to optimize the parameters for the scheme is given. In addition, detailed simulation is performed to evaluate the performance of the proposed scheme for both densely and sparsely deployed sensor networks. Theoretical analysis and simulation results verify the energy efficiency of the proposed scheme.展开更多
Energy conservation in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) has always been a crucial issue and has received increased attention in the recent years. A transmission scheme for energy-constrained WSNs is proposed in this pa...Energy conservation in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) has always been a crucial issue and has received increased attention in the recent years. A transmission scheme for energy-constrained WSNs is proposed in this paper. The scheme, called MIHOP (MIMO and Multi-hop), combines cluster-based virtual MIMO and multi-hop technologies. The multihop mode is employed in transmitting data when the related sensors are located within a specific number of hops from the sink, and the virtual MIMO mode is used in transmitting data from the remaining sensor nodes. We compare the energy consumption of different transmission schemes and propose an algorithm for determining the optimal hop count in MIHOP. A controllable mobile sink that reduces the energy consumed in sensor transmission is also adopted for data collection. The theoretical analysis and the Monte Carlo simulation demonstrate that the proposed scheme significantly outperforms individual virtual MIMO, multi-hop technologies, and double-string networks in terms of energy conservation. The energy consumption levels under the MIHOP scheme are approximately 12.98%, 47.55% and 48.30% less than that under virtual MIMO schemes, multi-hop networks and doublestring networks, respectively.展开更多
Cellular-based Machine-Type Communication (MTC) will become more and more important in the near future for the advantage of the long-distance wireless communication.However,a large number of MTC applications introduce...Cellular-based Machine-Type Communication (MTC) will become more and more important in the near future for the advantage of the long-distance wireless communication.However,a large number of MTC applications introduce heavy load to cellular network.MTC traffic scheduling schemes are proposed to avoid congestion in this paper.Our approaches are based on the delay-tolerance of MTC traffic.Some MTC traffic is postponed until the network load becomes light.Moreover,our scheme efficiently utilizes the bandwidth resources reserved for handover in traditional cellular network.Simulation results show that the utility usage of radio resources is improved and the congestion probability is reduced.展开更多
Many efforts have been made to develop time division multiple access (TDMA) slots allocation in a multi-hop converge-cast wireless sensor network (WSN), however, most of them either use complex algorithm or concer...Many efforts have been made to develop time division multiple access (TDMA) slots allocation in a multi-hop converge-cast wireless sensor network (WSN), however, most of them either use complex algorithm or concern frames only without simultaneous transmission in a single slot. In this paper, we present a timeslot assignment scheme for cluster-tree-based TDMA WSN, co:'ering three frequently used working modes in practical applications. The shortest frame formed can guarantee real-time conununication and is also facilitated for message and slot integration, since timeslots allocated to a single node are continuous. During allocation processes, the algorithms are distributed and light-weighted. The experiment resulted from a WSN prototype system shows that our scheme can achieve a good reliability.展开更多
The major challenge faced by wireless mesh networks is the capacity reduction caused by interference,and interference can be reduced or even eliminated through appropriate channel assignment.This article presents a co...The major challenge faced by wireless mesh networks is the capacity reduction caused by interference,and interference can be reduced or even eliminated through appropriate channel assignment.This article presents a comprehensive survey of channel assignment schemes for multicast in multi-radio multi-channel wireless mesh networks.We analyze the state-of-the-art channel assignment schemes for multicast and provide comprehensive taxonomy of the latest work.In general,we classify the channel assignment schemes for multicast into two types,that is,sequential multicast routing and channel assignment(SMRCA)and joint multicast routing and channel assignment(JMRCA).Detailed review of channel assignment schemes in each category is provided.Possible future research directions and corresponding solutions are also explored to motivate research interests in the field of channel assignment for multicast in wireless mesh networks.展开更多
Capacity reduction is a major problem faced by wireless mesh networks. An efficient way to alleviate this problem is proper channel assignment. Current end-toend channel assignment schemes usually focus on the case wh...Capacity reduction is a major problem faced by wireless mesh networks. An efficient way to alleviate this problem is proper channel assignment. Current end-toend channel assignment schemes usually focus on the case where channels in distinct frequency bands are assigned to mesh access and backbone, but actually backbone network and access network can use the same IEEE 802.11 technology. Besides, these channel assignment schemes only utilize orthogonal channels to perform channel assignment, and the resulting network interference dramatically degrades network performance. Moreover, Internet-oriented traffic is considered only, and peerto-peer traffic is omitted, or vice versa. The traffic type does not match the practical network. In this paper, we explore how to exploit partially overlapped channels to perform endto-end channel assignment in order to achieve effective end-to-end flow transmissions. The proposed flow-based end-to-end channel assignment schemes can conquer the limitations aforementioned. Simulations reveal that loadaware channel assignment can be applied to networks with stable traffic load, and it can achieve near-optimal performance; Traffic-irrelevant channel assignment is suitable for networks with frequent change of traffic load,and it can achieve good balance between performance and overhead. Also, partially overlapped channels' capability of improving network performance is situation-dependent, they should be used carefully.展开更多
In this study,an explicit adaptive traffic allocation scheme for Machine-to-Machine(M2M)service is proposed to achieve optimum distribution in heterogeneous networks.Based on the characteristics of M2M services,the pr...In this study,an explicit adaptive traffic allocation scheme for Machine-to-Machine(M2M)service is proposed to achieve optimum distribution in heterogeneous networks.Based on the characteristics of M2M services,the presented scheme is formulated as a convex optimization problem that maximises the utility of the M2M service,and then determines how to allocate the total rate among the multiple access networks.The analysis and numerical simulations indicate that the proposed scheme makes a significant improvement in performance compared with the traditional schemes.展开更多
In spectrum aggregation(SA), two or more component carriers(CCs) of different bandwidths in different bands can be aggregated to support wider transmission bandwidth. The current resource scheduling schemes for spectr...In spectrum aggregation(SA), two or more component carriers(CCs) of different bandwidths in different bands can be aggregated to support wider transmission bandwidth. The current resource scheduling schemes for spectrum aggregation are not optimal or suitable for CR based heterogeneous networks(Het Nets). Consequently, the authors propose a novel resource scheduling scheme for spectrum aggregation in CR based Het Nets, termed as cognitive radio based resource scheduling(CR-RS) scheme. CR-RS has a three-level structure. Under a dynamic traffic model, an equivalent throughput of the CCs based on the knowledge of primary users(PUs) is given. On this basis, the CR users data transmission time of each CC is equal in CR-RS. The simulation results show that CR-RS has the better performance than the current resource scheduling schemes in the CR based Het Nets. Meanwhile, CR-RS is also effective in other spectrum aggregation systems which are not CR based HetNets.展开更多
Transmission among the cognitive users(CUs)' is always interrupted by the primary users(PUs)' reclaim of the spectrum and the fading effect of wireless channels.To maintain reliable continuous communication am...Transmission among the cognitive users(CUs)' is always interrupted by the primary users(PUs)' reclaim of the spectrum and the fading effect of wireless channels.To maintain reliable continuous communication among CUs,an efficient scheme for link maintenance in OFDM-based cognitive radio Ad Hoc networks is proposed in this paper.In the scheme,redundant sub-channels(RSC) are employed by CUs to tackle the outage problem caused by the PUs' reclaim of the spectrum and wireless fading effect in the transmission.Meanwhile,backup sub-channels(BSC) are arranged to help select sub-channels with better channel quality.Additionally,to lower the overhead and improve the accuracy of the spectrum sensing,a partial sensing module is designed to enable the CUs to inherit and update the original idle spectrum list until it expires.Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can realize higher throughput and lower sensing overhead with slight reduction of the forced termination probability(FTP) performance compared to the existing approaches.展开更多
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) ...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.展开更多
基金Project(2013DFB10070)supported by the International Science & Technology Cooperation Program of ChinaProject(2012GK4106)supported by the Hunan Provincial Science & Technology Program,ChinaProject(12MX15)supported by the Mittal Innovation Project of Central South University,China
文摘Privacy is becoming one of the most notable challenges threatening wireless sensor networks(WSNs).Adversaries may use RF(radio frequency) localization techniques to perform hop-by-hop trace back to the source sensor's location.A multiple k-hop clusters based routing strategy(MHCR) is proposed to preserve source-location privacy as well as enhance energy efficiency for WSNs.Owing to the inherent characteristics of intra-cluster data aggregation,each sensor of the interference clusters is able to act as a fake source to confuse the adversary.Moreover,dummy traffic could be filtered efficiently by the cluster heads during the data aggregation,ensuring no energy consumption be burdened in the hotspot of the network.Through careful analysis and calculation on the distribution and the number of interference clusters,energy efficiency is significantly enhanced without reducing the network lifetime.Finally,the security and delay performance of MHCR scheme are theoretically analyzed.Extensive analysis and simulation results demonstrate that MHCR scheme can improve both the location privacy security and energy efficiency markedly,especially in large-scale WSNs.
文摘Wireless sensor network is becoming more and more popular in recent years, but energy- constrained characteristic of sensor nodes is one of the critical issues that we must consider in system design. In this paper, a cluster-based virtual VBLAST transmission scheme is proposed to achieve energy savings for energy-constrained wireless sensor networks. In the proposed scheme, instead of using cluster member as cooperative nodes, multiple cluster heads cooperate to form virtual antenna array so that V-BLAST based virtual MIMO transmission can be implemented. Based on the communication energy consumption model, a way to optimize the parameters for the scheme is given. In addition, detailed simulation is performed to evaluate the performance of the proposed scheme for both densely and sparsely deployed sensor networks. Theoretical analysis and simulation results verify the energy efficiency of the proposed scheme.
基金funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.61171107Beijing Natural Science Foundation under Grant No.4122034+1 种基金863 Program of China under Grant No.2011AA100706the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant No.G470519
文摘Energy conservation in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) has always been a crucial issue and has received increased attention in the recent years. A transmission scheme for energy-constrained WSNs is proposed in this paper. The scheme, called MIHOP (MIMO and Multi-hop), combines cluster-based virtual MIMO and multi-hop technologies. The multihop mode is employed in transmitting data when the related sensors are located within a specific number of hops from the sink, and the virtual MIMO mode is used in transmitting data from the remaining sensor nodes. We compare the energy consumption of different transmission schemes and propose an algorithm for determining the optimal hop count in MIHOP. A controllable mobile sink that reduces the energy consumed in sensor transmission is also adopted for data collection. The theoretical analysis and the Monte Carlo simulation demonstrate that the proposed scheme significantly outperforms individual virtual MIMO, multi-hop technologies, and double-string networks in terms of energy conservation. The energy consumption levels under the MIHOP scheme are approximately 12.98%, 47.55% and 48.30% less than that under virtual MIMO schemes, multi-hop networks and doublestring networks, respectively.
基金supported by the National Science Foundation(60972047,60972048,60832001)National S&T Major Project(2011ZX03005-003-03,2008ZX03005-001,2010ZX03005-003)+4 种基金National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars(60725105)National Basic Research Program of China(No.2009CB320404)Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University(IRT0852)the 111 Project(B08038)State Key Laboratory Foundation(ISN090305,ISN1002005)
文摘Cellular-based Machine-Type Communication (MTC) will become more and more important in the near future for the advantage of the long-distance wireless communication.However,a large number of MTC applications introduce heavy load to cellular network.MTC traffic scheduling schemes are proposed to avoid congestion in this paper.Our approaches are based on the delay-tolerance of MTC traffic.Some MTC traffic is postponed until the network load becomes light.Moreover,our scheme efficiently utilizes the bandwidth resources reserved for handover in traditional cellular network.Simulation results show that the utility usage of radio resources is improved and the congestion probability is reduced.
基金Supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Programme of China ( No. 2006AA040302 2007AA041201 +1 种基金 2007AA041301 )the National Creative Research Groups Science Foundation of China (No. 60721062)
文摘Many efforts have been made to develop time division multiple access (TDMA) slots allocation in a multi-hop converge-cast wireless sensor network (WSN), however, most of them either use complex algorithm or concern frames only without simultaneous transmission in a single slot. In this paper, we present a timeslot assignment scheme for cluster-tree-based TDMA WSN, co:'ering three frequently used working modes in practical applications. The shortest frame formed can guarantee real-time conununication and is also facilitated for message and slot integration, since timeslots allocated to a single node are continuous. During allocation processes, the algorithms are distributed and light-weighted. The experiment resulted from a WSN prototype system shows that our scheme can achieve a good reliability.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants No.61373124
文摘The major challenge faced by wireless mesh networks is the capacity reduction caused by interference,and interference can be reduced or even eliminated through appropriate channel assignment.This article presents a comprehensive survey of channel assignment schemes for multicast in multi-radio multi-channel wireless mesh networks.We analyze the state-of-the-art channel assignment schemes for multicast and provide comprehensive taxonomy of the latest work.In general,we classify the channel assignment schemes for multicast into two types,that is,sequential multicast routing and channel assignment(SMRCA)and joint multicast routing and channel assignment(JMRCA).Detailed review of channel assignment schemes in each category is provided.Possible future research directions and corresponding solutions are also explored to motivate research interests in the field of channel assignment for multicast in wireless mesh networks.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants No.61373124
文摘Capacity reduction is a major problem faced by wireless mesh networks. An efficient way to alleviate this problem is proper channel assignment. Current end-toend channel assignment schemes usually focus on the case where channels in distinct frequency bands are assigned to mesh access and backbone, but actually backbone network and access network can use the same IEEE 802.11 technology. Besides, these channel assignment schemes only utilize orthogonal channels to perform channel assignment, and the resulting network interference dramatically degrades network performance. Moreover, Internet-oriented traffic is considered only, and peerto-peer traffic is omitted, or vice versa. The traffic type does not match the practical network. In this paper, we explore how to exploit partially overlapped channels to perform endto-end channel assignment in order to achieve effective end-to-end flow transmissions. The proposed flow-based end-to-end channel assignment schemes can conquer the limitations aforementioned. Simulations reveal that loadaware channel assignment can be applied to networks with stable traffic load, and it can achieve near-optimal performance; Traffic-irrelevant channel assignment is suitable for networks with frequent change of traffic load,and it can achieve good balance between performance and overhead. Also, partially overlapped channels' capability of improving network performance is situation-dependent, they should be used carefully.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of Chinaunder Grant No.60971125the National Science and Technology Major Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of Chinaunder Grant No.2012ZX03005-010the China Scholarship Council
文摘In this study,an explicit adaptive traffic allocation scheme for Machine-to-Machine(M2M)service is proposed to achieve optimum distribution in heterogeneous networks.Based on the characteristics of M2M services,the presented scheme is formulated as a convex optimization problem that maximises the utility of the M2M service,and then determines how to allocate the total rate among the multiple access networks.The analysis and numerical simulations indicate that the proposed scheme makes a significant improvement in performance compared with the traditional schemes.
基金supported by Major National Science and Technology Project(2014ZX03004003-005)Municipal Exceptional Academic Leaders Foundation (2014RFXXJ002)China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2014M561347)
文摘In spectrum aggregation(SA), two or more component carriers(CCs) of different bandwidths in different bands can be aggregated to support wider transmission bandwidth. The current resource scheduling schemes for spectrum aggregation are not optimal or suitable for CR based heterogeneous networks(Het Nets). Consequently, the authors propose a novel resource scheduling scheme for spectrum aggregation in CR based Het Nets, termed as cognitive radio based resource scheduling(CR-RS) scheme. CR-RS has a three-level structure. Under a dynamic traffic model, an equivalent throughput of the CCs based on the knowledge of primary users(PUs) is given. On this basis, the CR users data transmission time of each CC is equal in CR-RS. The simulation results show that CR-RS has the better performance than the current resource scheduling schemes in the CR based Het Nets. Meanwhile, CR-RS is also effective in other spectrum aggregation systems which are not CR based HetNets.
基金supported in part by program for National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.61271184863 Program of China under Grant No.2013AA013301New Century Excellent Talents in University under Grant No.NCET-11-0594
文摘Transmission among the cognitive users(CUs)' is always interrupted by the primary users(PUs)' reclaim of the spectrum and the fading effect of wireless channels.To maintain reliable continuous communication among CUs,an efficient scheme for link maintenance in OFDM-based cognitive radio Ad Hoc networks is proposed in this paper.In the scheme,redundant sub-channels(RSC) are employed by CUs to tackle the outage problem caused by the PUs' reclaim of the spectrum and wireless fading effect in the transmission.Meanwhile,backup sub-channels(BSC) are arranged to help select sub-channels with better channel quality.Additionally,to lower the overhead and improve the accuracy of the spectrum sensing,a partial sensing module is designed to enable the CUs to inherit and update the original idle spectrum list until it expires.Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can realize higher throughput and lower sensing overhead with slight reduction of the forced termination probability(FTP) performance compared to the existing approaches.
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61172051,61302070,61202071, 61302072) the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (N110804003,N120804002,N120404001, N120604001)+1 种基金 the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University(NCET-120102) the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (20120042120049)
文摘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.