Workshop on MIMO and Cognitive Radio Technologies in Multihop Network


Friday, 12 June 2015 • 09:00 – 18:00

WS-12: MIMO and Cognitive Radio Technologies in Multihop Network (MIMOCR)

Organizer: Xuemin (Sherman) Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and cognitive radio (CR) technologies have gained increasing attention recently. MIMO effectively increases data throughput without using additional radio spectrum, and CR exploits the existing wireless spectrum opportunistically. MIMO and CR effectively address the problem of limited available spectrum. However, the distributed coordination of MIMO and CR functionalities in a multihop ad hoc network remains to be addressed. The non-trivial coupling of ad hoc networks with MIMO and CR will pose new challenges on protocol design and resource management, create exciting new topics in MIMO and CR research pertaining to optimal leveraging of local information, and greatly advance both the networking and communication technology of decentralized architecture. The objective of the workshop is to bring together practitioners and researchers from both academia and industry in order to have a forum for discussion and technical presentations on applying MIMO and CR technologies to ad hoc networks.


Welcome Session

Keynote-1: Channel-Quality-Aware Opportunistic Relaying, Cooperative Cognitive Radios and All That...

Buffer-aided channel-quality-aware opportunistic relaying allows thelinks momentarily benefitting from the best channel quality to beactivated, but naturally, this requires the storage of the hithertountransmitted information, which imposes a delay. Hence the integrityversus delay trade-offs of these networks have to be investigated.The specific routing strategy of ad hoc networks also plays a pivotalrole in determining their overall performance. Diverse objectivefunctions may be conceived and optimized at the potential erosion ofthe remaining performance metrics. As an enhanced design approach,multi-objective optimization may be pursued, where additionalconstraints may be imposed in the interest of finding the optimumPareto front without an exhaustive brute-force search.The efficient spectral access of multiple Primary Users (PUs) andCognitive Users (CUs) may be arranged in cooperative CognitiveRadio (CR) networks with the aid of game-theoretic techniques, wherethe PUs negotiate with the CUs concerning the specific amount ofrelaying and transmission time, whilst reducing the requiredtransmission power or increasing the transmission rate of the PU.

Spectrum Sharing Technologies

On the Coexistence of Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks in TV White Space
Angela Sara Cacciapuoti (University of Naples Federico II, Italy); Marcello Caleffi (University of Naples "Federico II", Italy); Luigi Paura (Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy)
pp. 509-513
Spectrum Aggregation-based Cooperative Routing in Cognitive Radio Ad-Hoc Networks
Shuyu Ping, Adnan Aijaz, Oliver Holland and Hamid Aghvami (King's College London, United Kingdom)
pp. 514-519
Optimal Cooperative Spectrum Sensing Over Composite Fading Channels
Bassant Selim (Khalifa University, UAE); Omar Alhussein (Simon Fraser University, Canada); George K. Karagiannidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Sami Muhaidat (Khalifa University, UAE)
pp. 520-525
Energy-Aware Spectrum Sharing for Dynamic Spectrum Access via Monotonic Optimization
Yuan Wu, Yanfei He and Liping Qian (Zhejiang University of Technology, P.R. China); Bo Ji (Temple University, USA)
pp. 526-531
A Novel Link Scheduler for Personalized Broadcast in Multi Tx/Rx Wireless Mesh Networks
He Wang and Kwan-Wu Chin (University of Wollongong, Australia); Sieteng Soh (Curtin University, Australia)
pp. 532-537
An Efficient Link Scheduler for MIMO Wireless Mesh Networks
Luyao Wang and Kwan-Wu Chin (University of Wollongong, Australia); Sieteng Soh (Curtin University, Australia)
pp. 538-543
Relay Selection and Beamforming with Outdated CSI for AF MIMO Relay Systems
Yinjie Su (Shanghai Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Lingge Jiang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China); Chen He and Qi Xi (Shanghai Jiaotong University, P.R. China)
pp. 544-548

Keynote-2: Cognitive Radio for 5G and Future Cellular Networks

The 5G and future cellular networks are expected to support the explosive growth of mobile data for various types of services. Besides increasing the spectral efficiency and exploring unused spectrum, the need for spectrum sharing to support the deployment of various networks becomes unavoidable. Over the past decade, there have been a lot of research and development activities devoted to the spectrum sharing research. In this talk, I will highlight the key cognitive radio ideas and technologies that could contribute to the development of 5G and future cellular networks, including, e.g., spectrum refarming, LTE-U, D2D communications, and software-defined wireless network access.

MIMO and Cognitive Radio

A Packet-Level Model for MIMO Spatial Multiplexing Channels in Indoor Environments
Ruonan Zhang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China); Jianping Zhao (Huawei Technologies Company, P.R. China); Zhimeng Zhong (Research Institute of Space Radio Technology, P.R. China); Heng Qin (Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China)
pp. 549-554
Performance Analysis and Optimization of Hybrid MIMO Cognitive Radio Systems
Miltiades C. Filippou (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); George A Ropokis (Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, Greece); David Gesbert (Eurecom Institute, France); Tharmalingam Ratnarajah (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
pp. 555-561
A Trust Based Framework for Both Spectrum Sensing and Data Transmission in CR-MANETs
Zhexiong Wei (Carleton University, Canada); Helen Tang (DRDC Ottawa, Canada); F. Richard Yu (Carleton University, Canada)
pp. 562-567
Enabling Smart Grid via TV White Space Cognitive Radio
Angela Sara Cacciapuoti (University of Naples Federico II, Italy); Marcello Caleffi (University of Naples "Federico II", Italy); Francesco Marino and Luigi Paura (Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy)
pp. 568-572
SOCP Based Joint Throughput Maximization and User Association in Dynamic Networks
Inosha Sugathapala (University of Oulu & Centre for Wireless Communication, Finland); Le-Nam Tran (Maynooth University, Ireland); Muhammad Fainan Hanif (Lancaster University, United Kingdom); Beatriz Lorenzo (University of Vigo, Spain); Savo Glisic and Markku Juntti (University of Oulu, Finland)
pp. 573-578
Local and Cooperative Spectrum Sensing via Kuiper's Test
Jingwen Zhang, Fanggang Wang and Zhangdui Zhong (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Danijela Cabric (University of California Los Angeles, USA)
pp. 579-584