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Proposed
By Ghassan Husnain
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Expected contribution
The main problem to address in the thesis projects is an analysis and
comparison of different types of payment. The main approach is to look into
consumer payment behaviour and to analyze motives behind the consumers
decision to prefer one type of payment over another. The main contribution
will be a generalized scenario of usage for each payment type, describing
the typical user, its experience and expectations, most common types of
purchases, and the most likely contextual situation when this type of
payment occurs.
1Gartner,
Readings
Constantiou I.D., Damsgaard J. and Knutsen L., 2006. Exploring perception and use
of mobile services: user differences in an advancing market. International Journal of
Mobile Communication , Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 231247.
Mallat N., 2007. Exploring consumer adoption of mobile payments A qualitative
study. Journal of Strategic Information Systems , Vol. 16, pp. 413 432
Examples of BS sleeping patterns: (a) (2,3)-off scheme, (b) (3,4)-off scheme [1]
Besides traffic-aware BS sleeping, there are also new technical problems that need to be
addressed and will be studied in this project. For example, users in sleeping cells need to be reassociated to the active BSs. Second, traffic-aware sleeping makes both the topology of active
BSs and the interference scenarios change. So new frequency reuse pattern, scheduling, and
power control schemes should be developed accordingly.
Thesis Work
The main purpose of the thesis is to make a general study of the energy-efficient operations in
green cellular networks from the following three respects, which is partitioned according to the
time scale: (1) BS sleeping design, (2) User association, (3) scheduling and power control. The
goal is to minimize the total energy consumption of the system while satisfying QoS
requirements.
The following is what we currently expect in part of the work:
Literature survey of existing BS sleeping schemes and its corresponding
association and scheduling techniques;
Implement a simulation platform:
Design or choose a dynamic BS sleeping algorithm and implement it.
Analyze the impact of different parameters on the performance.
Design or choose a user association algorithm and implement it. Analyze the
impact of different parameters on the performance.
Design or choose a scheduling or power control algorithm and implement it.
Analyze the impact of different parameters on the performance.
Evaluate the relationship of energy consumption and QoS (delay or blocking
performance).
Qualifications
You should
Help
[1] Z. Niu, TANGO: traffic-aware network planning and green operation, IEEE
Wireless Commun. Mag., vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 2529, Oct. 2011.
[2] K. Son, H. Kim, Y. Yi, and B. Krishnamachari, Base station operation and user
association mechanisms for energy-delay tradeoffs in green cellular networks, IEEE
J. Sel. Areas Commun., vol. 29, no. 8, Sep. 2011.
The most recent trend in network assisted D2D communications is to allow for multiple hops and
to form clusters of user equipments to cooperate in order to help another to communicate with
each other and/or with the cellular infrastructure.
Thesis Work
The goal of the thesis is to investigate how D2D communications can be integrated with
traditional cellular structures, with emphasize on cooperation techniques between the user
equipments and infrastructure nodes from both algorithm and protocol perspectives. The final
definition will be made together with the applicant. The following is what we currently expect in
part of the work:
Design or choose a centralized scheduling algorithm and implement it. Analyze the impact
of different parameters on the performance.
Design or choose a distributed scheduling algorithm and implement it. Analyze the impact
of different parameters on the performance.
Evaluate the impact of signaling overhead, user proximity, and traffic load on the network
performance.
Qualifications
You should