ITUJournal Future and evolving technologies – Volume 2 (2021), Issue 2
EDITORIAL BOARD
TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF ABSTRACTS
SEAMLESS COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUES IN MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING: A SURVEY
     1. Introduction
     2. Background Information
          2.1 Overview of mobile cloud computing architecture
          2.2 Performance metrics of MCC
          2.3 Resource management and allocation in mobile cloud computing
     3. Related Work
     4. Existing Techniques and Solutions
          4.1 Fog architecture-based solutions for seamless handover
          4.2 Edge server and base station placement solutions
          4.3 Energy consumption and latency minimization during data offloading
          4.4 Latency minimization through load balancing and offloading
          4.5 Solutions for data security and privacy
     5. Open Challenges and Issues 
     6. Conclusion
     REFERENCES
     AUTHORS
CLUSTERING‑BASED DEVICE‑TO‑DEVICE DISCOVERY AND CONTENT DELIVERY IN WIRELESS NETWORKS
     1. INTRODUCTION
          1.1 Contributions
     2. SYSTEM MODEL
     3. OFFLOADING FORMULATION
     4. CLUSTERING AND CACHE PLACEMENT OPERATIONS
     5. PROPOSED ADVERTISEMENT AND DISCOVERY PROCEDURES
     6. RESOURCE ALLOCATION AND ACCESS MODEL
     7. SIMULATION RESULTS
     8. CONCLUSIONS
     REFERENCES
     AUTHORS
COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN FOR ANALOG WIRELESS FRONTHAUL OF B5G CELLULAR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
     1. INTRODUCTION
     2. A-RoF-based Architecture for Wireless Fronthaul
     3. Microwave photonics approach to design electronics apparatuses
     4. Comparative computer-aided design of MMW frequency multiplier
          4.1 The block diagrams and reference data for simulation
          4.2 AWRDE models and setups
          4.3 Simulation results
     5. CONCLUSION
     Acknowlegment
     REFERENCES
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EMR: A NEW METRIC TO ASSESS THE RESILIENCE OF DIRECTIONAL MMWAVE CHANNELS TO BLOCKAGES
     1. INTRODUCTION
     2. CHARACTERIZING THE CHANNEL BEHAVIOR
          2.1 Existing metrics for channel characterization
          2.2 Evaluation of the metrics
     3. EFFECTIVE MULTIPATH RICHNESS (EMR)
          3.1 Thresholding with the minimum desired power level
          3.2 Cosine distance‑based clustering
          3.3 Value of the backup paths and the EMR metric
     4. NUMERICAL RESULTS
          4.1 Number of MPC clusters in angular domain
          4.2 Comparison of EMR with the other metrics
          4.3 Evaluation of EMR for different parameter settings
          4.4 Characterization of the measurement environment using EMR
     5. CONCLUSION
     ACKNOWLEDGMENT
     REFERENCES
     AUTHORS
A RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SURVEY FOR MISSION‑CRITICAL AND TIME‑CRITICAL APPLICATIONS IN MULTIACCESS EDGE COMPUTING
     1. INTRODUCTION
     2. RELATED WORKS
     3. MISSION‑CRITICAL APPLICATIONS USE CASES
          3.1 Disaster management
          3.2 Military
     4. RESOURCE ALLOCATION
          4.1 Task modelling
          4.2 Resources to allocate
          4.3 Goals
          4.4 Methods
     5. MOBILE RESOURCE DEPLOYMENT
          5.1 System modelling
          5.2 Deployment methods
     Conclusion
     6. OPEN ISSUES AND CHALLENGES
          6.1 Real‑time resource allocation and deployment
          6.2 Security and privacy
          6.3 Green MEC
          6.4 MEC experimentation and test beds
     7. CONCLUSION
     REFERENCES
     AUTHORS
ARPA: AN AUTONOMOUS RENDERER PLACEMENT ALGORITHM IN DISTRIBUTED MULTIMEDIA FOG NETWORKS WITH DELAY GUARANTEES
     1. INTRODUCTION
     2. RELATED WORK
          2.1 Past placement approaches
          2.2 Literature comparison
     3. SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE
     4. FOG AREA NETWORK DESCRIPTION
          4.1 FAN topology
          4.2 FAN definitions
     5. PROBLEM FORMULATION
          5.1 Cost model
          5.2 Problem statement
     6. LOCALIZED RELOCATION ANALYSIS
          6.1 Service migration
          6.2 Service replication
          6.3 Service consolidation
          6.4 Upper latency compensation
     7. ALGORITHM DESIGN
          7.1 The proposed ARPA
          7.2 Discussion
     8. EVALUATION WITH SYNTHETIC DATA
          8.1 Simulation setup
          8.2 Simulation results
     9. TRACE‑DRIVEN EVALUATION
          9.1 Data set and configuration
          9.2 Performance benchmarks
          9.3 Comparison results
     10. CONCLUSION
     A. APPENDIX
     ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
     REFERENCES
     AUTHORS
LOW COMPLEXITY FULL DUPLEX MIMO SYSTEMS: ANALOG CANCELER ARCHITECTURES, BEAMFORMING DESIGN, AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
     1. INTRODUCTION
     2. SYSTEM AND SIGNAL MODELS
     3. ANALOG CANCELER ARCHITECTURES
          3.1 Multi‑tap analog canceler architecture
          3.2 Multi‑AUX‑TX analog canceler architecture
     4. PROPOSED FD MIMO OPTIMIZATION FRAMEWORK
     5. AN EXAMPLE FD MIMO DESIGN
          5.1 Candidate designs for C���� and V����
          5.2 Joint design of C����, V����, and U����
          5.3 Remarks
     6. SIMULATION RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
          6.1 Compared FD MIMO designs
          6.2 Simulation parameters
          6.3 Self‑interference mitigation capability
          6.4 Achievable rates
     7. RECENT FD MIMO APPLICATIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
          7.1 STAR applications
          7.2 Open challenges and future directions
     8. CONCLUSIONS
     A. SIMULATION MODELS FOR THE ANALOG CANCELER HARDWARE
          A.1 Model for the analog taps
          A.2 Model for the AUX TX RF chains
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INFRASTRUCTURE SHARING MODEL TO CONNECT THE UNCONNECTED IN RURAL AREAS
     1. INTRODUCTION
     2. LITERATURE REVIEW
          2.1 The different infrastructure sharing techniques
          2.2 Cloud‑RAN and network slicing as an active sharing option for bridging the digital divide
     3. INFRASTRUCTURE SHARING MODEL
     4. CASE STUDY AND RESULT
     5. CONCLUSION
     ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
     REFERENCES
     AUTHORS
DOORS IN THE SKY: DETECTION, LOCALIZATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF AERIAL VEHICLES USING LASER MESH
     1. INTRODUCTION
     2. PROPOSED LASER MESH SETUP
          2.1 Mesh of laser beams
          2.2 Laser mesh steering
     3. DETECTION OF A TARGET
          3.1 Mathematical modeling of blockage of a laser beam
          3.2 Detection of the target based on blockage of laser beam
     4. TARGET FEATURES
          4.1 Features associated with target shape
          4.2 Velocity, pitch and drift angles, and altitude of the target
     5. CLASSIFICATION, LOCALIZATION, AND TARGET TRACKING
          5.1 Classification of a target using training data
          5.2 Localization and tracking of the target
     6. LIMITATIONS OF THE PROPOSED APPROACH AND SOLUTIONS
          6.1 Laser beams transmission and reception
          6.2 Multiple targets detection
     7. SIMULATION SETUP AND RESULTS
     8. CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE WORK
     ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
     REFERENCES
     AUTHORS
EQUAL‑GAIN COMBINING WITH INTERFERENCE MITIGATION FOR MOLECULAR TYPE HOPPING ASSISTED MOLECULAR SHIFT KEYING SYSTEMS
     1. INTRODUCTION
     2. SYSTEM MODEL
          2.1 Transmitted signal
          2.2 Received observations
     3. EQUAL‑GAIN COMBINING WITH INTERFERENCE MITIGATION
     4. PERFORMANCE RESULT
     5. CONCLUSIONS
     REFERENCES
     AUTHORS
ENSURING RELIABLE CONNECTIVITY TO CELLULAR‑CONNECTED UAVS WITH UP‑TILTED ANTENNAS AND INTERFERENCE COORDINATION
     1. INTRODUCTION
     2. RELATED WORK
     3. SYSTEM MODEL
          3.1 Network model
          3.2 Antenna radiation pattern
          3.3 Ground reflection channel model
          3.4 Numerical example
          3.5 Overview of eICIC
     4. UP‑TILT ANGLE OPTIMIZATION FOR MAXIMIZING SIR
          4.1 SIR definitions over different subframes
          4.2 Problem definition
     5. GENETIC ALGORITHM‑BASED UP‑TILT ANGLE OPTIMIZATION
          5.1 Representation
          5.2 Fitness evaluation
          5.3 Selection
          5.4 Crossover
          5.5 Mutation
          5.6 Complexity analysis
     6. SIMULATION RESULTS
          6.1 Optimal UT angle analysis
          6.2 Impact of the down‑tilted antenna
          6.3 Impact of the number of antenna elements
          6.4 Impact of the physical separation of the antenna sets
          6.5 Impact on the GUE SIR
     7. CONCLUDING REMARKS AND DISCUSSION
     ACKNOWLEDGMENT
     REFERENCES
     AUTHORS
Index of Authors