SDN-Based Data Offioading for 5G Mobile Networks

The rapid growth of 3G/4G enabled devices such as smartphones and tablets in large numbers has created increased demand formobile data services.Wi-Fi offloading helps satisfy the requirements of data-rich applications and terminals with improved multi-media.Wi-Fi is an essential approach to alleviating mobile data traffic load on a cellular network because it provides extra capaci-ty and improves overall performance.In this paper,we propose an integrated LTE/Wi-Fi architecture with software-defined net-working(SDN)abstraction in mobile backhaul and enhanced components that facilitate the move towards next-generation 5G mo-bile networks.Our proposed architecture enables programmable offloading policies that take into account real-time network condi-tions as well as the status of devices and applications.This mechanism improves overall network performance by deriving real-time policies and steering traffic between cellular and Wi-Fi networks more efficiently.     

An Introduction to Transmit Antenna Selection in MIMO Wiretap Channels

This paper is a survey of transmit antenna selection-a low-complexity, energy-efficient method for improving physical layer security in multiple-input multiple-output wiretap channels. With this method, a single antenna out of multiple antennas is selected at the transmitter. We review a general analytical framework for analyzing exact and asymptotic secrecy of transmit antenna selection with receive maximal ratio combining, selection combining, or generalized selection combining. The analytical results prove that secrecy is significantly improved when the number of transmit antennas increases.     

一种新型4G通信室内覆盖方案

根据4G通信室内覆盖方案的工作频率特性及覆盖要求,研究制造出了具有较宽工作频率的新型室内漏泄电缆天线。该新型漏泄电缆天线主要由连接器、1／2”小规格漏缆和负载组装而成。文中对基于该漏泄电缆天线的4G室内覆盖新方案进行了研究,对4G通信室内覆盖新方案和传统天线覆盖方案的性能及成本进行了对比分析,最后举例对该覆盖新方案的具体设计方式进行了说明。     

A Tri-Port MIMO Antenna Designed for Micro/Pico Cell Applications with Self-Decoupled Structure

A tri-port MIMO antenna designed for Micro/Pico-Cell application is proposed. It is based on printed elements with X-shaped arms, which are oriented to 0°, 120° and 240° in the azimuth plane. The arms of these elements are connected, with which a selfdecoupled structure is formed. The mutual coupling between adjacent elements is below -15dB. Meanwhile, it size is compact and bidirectional radiation patterns with around 4dBi Gain and 92° 3dB beam width is achieved, which can provide good pattern diversity and full azimuth coverage in real applications.     

Software Radio——Software Radio： A Review of Design Considerations and Digital Hardware Choices

This paper reviews the requirements for Software Defined Radio （SDR） systems for high-speed wireless applications and compares how well the different technology choices available- from ASICs, FPGAs to digital signal processors （DSPs） and general purpose processors （GPPs） - meet them.     

A Low-Overhead Energy-Efficient ARQ Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless sensor network （WSN） is a typical kind of low-power and lossy network, in where ARQ （Automatic Repeat reQuest） schemes are often used to improve packets reliability. However, the ARQ related packets may incur significant load and consume more energy. This paper proposes a novel energy efficient ARQ protocol called ARQ＋, which uses the nearest-first scheme and NAK aggregation scheme to reduce the amount and transmission hops of the ARQ related packets. Consequently, the energy consumption is significantly decreased. Theoretical analyses of ARQ＋ on energy consumption, packet arrive ratio and latency are provided. Performance improvement of ARQ＋ is validated by extensive simulations. They both show that ARQ＋ has satisfactory energy efficiency, good packets arriving ratio and reasonable average packet delay comparing to traditional ARQ schemes.     

Virtualized Wireless SDNs： Modelling Delay Through the Use of Stochastic Network Calculus

Software-defined networks(SDN)have attracted much attention recently because of their flexibility in terms of network manage-ment.Increasingly,SDN is being introduced into wireless networks to form wireless SDN.One enabling technology for wirelessSDN is network virtualization,which logically divides one wireless network element,such as a base station,into multiple slices,and each slice serving as a standalone virtual BS.In this way,one physical mobile wireless network can be partitioned into multi-ple virtual networks in a software-defined manner.Wireless virtual networks comprising virtual base stations also need to provideQoS to mobile end-user services in the same context as their physical hosting networks.One key QoS parameter is delay.This pa-per presents a delay model for software-defined wireless virtual networks.Network calculus is used in the modelling.In particu-lar,stochastic network calculus,which describes more realistic models than deterministic network calculus,is used.The model en-ables theoretical investigation of wireless SDN,which is largely dominated by either algorithms or prototype implementations.     

Design of a 16 gray scales 320×240 pixels OLED-on-silicon driving circuit

A 320×240 pixel organic-light-emitfing-diode-on-silicon （OLEDoS） driving circuit is implemented using the standard 0.5μm CMOS process of CSMC. It gives 16 gray scales with integrated 4 bit D/A converters. A three- transistor voltage-programmed OLED pixel driver is proposed, which can realize the very small current driving required for the OLEDoS microdisplay. Both the D/A converter and the pixel driver are implemented with pMOS devices. The pass-transistor and capacitance in the OLED pixel driver can be used to sample the output of the D/A converter. An additional pMOS is added to OLED pixel driver, which is used to control the D/A converter operating only when one row is on. This can reduce the circuit＇s power consumption. This driving circuit can work properly in a frame frequency of 50 Hz, and the final layout of this circuit is given. The pixel area is 28.4 × 28.4μm^2 and the display area is 10.7 × 8.0 mm^2 （the diagonal is about 13 mm）. The measured pixel gray scale voltage shows that the function of the driver circuit is correct, and the power consumption of the chip is about 350 mW.     

Traffic Characteristics Based Dynamic Radio Resource Management in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

The traffic with tidal phenomenon in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks （HWNs） has radically increased the complexity of radio resource management and its performance analysis. In this paper, a Simplified Dynamic Hierarchy Resource Management （SDHRM） algorithm exploiting the resources dynami- cally and intelligently is proposed with the consideration of tidal traffic. In network-level resource allocation, the proposed algorithm first adopts wavelet neural network to forecast the traffic of each sub-area and then allocates the resources to those sub-areas to maximise the network utility. In connection-level net- work selection, based on the above resource allocation and the pre-defined QoS require- ment, three typical network selection policies are provided to assign traffic flow to the most appropriate network. Furthermore, based on multidimensional Markov model, we analyse the performance of SDHRM in HWNs with heavy tailed traffic. Numerical results show that our theoretical values coincide with the simulation results and the SDHRM can im- prove the resource utilization.     

A Sensor Anonymity Enhancement Scheme Based on Pseudonym for Clustered Wireless Sensor Network

Security problem is an important issue for Wireless Sensor Network. The paper focuses on the privacy protection of WSN applications. An anonymity enhancement tactic based on pseudonym mechanism is presented for clustered Wireless Sensor Network, which provides anonymity for both the sensors within a cluster and the cluster head nodes. Simulation experiments are launched through NS2 platform to validate the anonymity performance. The theoretical analysis and empirical study imply that the proposed scheme based on pseudonym can protect the privacies of both the sensor nodes and the cluster head nodes. The work is valuable and the experimental results are convincible.     

应用于2.4GHz无线传感网的超低功耗射频接收前端设计

This paper presents the design of an ultralow power receiver front-end designed for a wireless sensor network （WSN） in a 0.18 μm CMOS process. The author designs two front-ends working in the saturation region and the subthreshold region respectively. The front-ends contain a two-stage cross-coupling cascaded common-gate （CG） LNA and a quadrature Gilbert IQ mixer. The measured conversion gain is variable with high gain at 24 dB and low gain at 7 dB for the saturation one, and high gain at 22 dB and low gain at 5 dB for the subthreshold one. The noise figure （NF） at high gain mode is 5.1 dB and 6.3 dB for each. The input 1 dB compression point （IPldB） at low gain mode is about -6 dBm and -3 dBm for each. The front-ends consume about 2.1 mA current from 1.8 V power supply for the saturation one and 1.3 mA current for the subthreshold one. The measured results show that, comparing with the power consumption saving, it is worth making sacrifices on the performance for using the subthreshold technology.     

Location Verification Systems in Emerging Wireless Networks

As location-based techniques and applications have become ubiquitous in emerging wireless networks, the verification of location information has become more important. In recent years, there has been an explosion of activity related to lo- cation-verification techniques in wireless networks. In particular, there has been a specific focus on intelligent transport systems because of the mission-critical nature of vehicle location verification. In this paper, we review recent research on wireless location verification related to vehicular networks. We focus on location verification systems that rely on for- mal mathematical classification frameworks and show how many systems are either partially or fully encompassed by such frameworks.     

欧姆接触金属退火对应力AlGaN/GaN异质结构中电子迁移率的影响

The influence of annealed ohmic contact metals on the electron mobility of a two dimensional electron gas （2DEG） is investigated on ungated AlGaN/GaN heterostructures and AlGaN/GaN heterostructure field effect transistors （AlGaN/GaN HFETs）. Current-voltage （I-V） characteristics for ungated AlGaN/GaN heterostructures and capacitance-voltage （C-V） characteristics for AlGaN/GaN HFETs are obtained, and the electron mobility for the ungated AlGaN/GaN heterostructure is calculated. It is found that the electron mobility of the 2DEG for the ungated AlGaN/GaN heterostructure is decreased by more than 50% compared with the electron mobility of Hall measurements. We propose that defects are introduced into the AlGaN barrier layer and the strain of the AlGaN barrier layer is changed during the annealing process of the source and drain, causing the decrease in the electron mobility.     

Survivable Routing Protocol for Green Wireless Mesh Networks Based on Energy Efficiency

This paper proposes a new Energyefficient Survivable Routing Protocol（ESRP）based on solar energy and wind mixed for power supply in green wireless mesh networks（WMNs）.The ESRP combines hop penalty strategy and flooding delaying strategy to improve the performances of traditional routing protocol.This paper uses QualNet to simulate and verify the performances of proposed ESRP.Compared with the traditional routing protocol,the simulation results show that the energy utilization of ESRP is more efficient by 13%.At the same time,ESRP is more load-balanced to postpone the appearance of the first energy depletion node and reduce the number of energy depletion nodes,and thus it effectively improves network survivability.     

BER Modified Decode-and-Forward Protocol for OFDM-Based Linear Multihop Networks

In orthogonal frequency division multiplexing （OFDM） based multihop communications, the conventional decodeand-forward （DF） relay scheme severely suffers from the error propagation problem. This drawback is serious in multihop networks as errors made by any relay node may fail the decoder at the destination in great chance. In this paper, we propose a bit error rate （BER） modified DF protocol （BMDF） which can be applied to systems where error correction channel coding and M-ary modulation are used. By modeling all links except the last one as a binary symmetric channel （BSC）, we derive a log likelihood ratio （LLR） modification function relying only on the accumulated BER of all previous links to be applied to the output of the soft demapper. Furthermore, to reduce the computational complexity and signaling overhead, the modification function is simplified from its original exponential expression and less BERs are delivered between nodes by making successive subcarriers share the same BER. In addition, for situations where the channel state information （CSI） of forward link is available, the proposed BMDF can be further enhanced by combining with subcarrier pairing （SP） and power allocation （PA）, where a sorted-channel gain SP scheme and a greedy PA algorithm are proposed. The simulation results verify thesignificant performance improvement to the conventional DF.     

应用于65nm CMOS技术节点漏电流分析的精确快速的查表模型

Novel physical models for leakage current analysis in 65 nm technology are proposed. Taking into consideration the process variations and emerging effects in nano-scaled technology, the presented models are capable of accurately estimating the subthreshold leakage current and junction tunneling leakage current in 65 nm technology. Based on the physical models, new table look-up models are developed and first applied to leakage current analysis in pursuit of higher simulation speed. Simulation results show that the novel physical models are in excellent agreement with the data measured from the foundry in the 65 nm process, and the proposed table look-up models can provide great computational efficiency by using suitable interpolation techniques. Compared with the traditional physical-based models, the table look-up models can achieve 2.5X speedup on average on a variety of industry circuits.     

双外延基区BJT基区渡越时间的模型研究

The doping profile function of a double base epilayer is constructed according to drift-diffusion theory. Then an analytical model for the base transit time τb is developed assuming a small-level injection based on the characteristics of the 4H-SiC material and the principle of the 4H-SiC BJTs. The device is numerically simulated and validated based on two-dimensional simulation models. The results show that the built-in electric field generated by the double base epilayer configuration can accelerate the carriers when transiting the base region and reduce the base transit time. From the simulation results, the base transit time reaches a minimal value when the ratio of L2/L1 is about 2.     

利用三氯氢硅(TCS)作为硅源在4H-SiC上外延生长的研究

Epitaxial growth on n-type 4H-SiC 8° off-oriented substrates with a size of 10 × 10 mm^2 at different temperatures with various gas flow rates has been performed in a horizontal hot wall CVD reactor, using trichlorosilane （TCS） as a silicon precursor source together with ethylene as a carbon precursor source. The growth rate reached 23 μm/h and the optimal epilayer was obtained at 1600℃ with a TCS flow rate of 12 sccm in C/Si of 0.42, which has a good surface morphology with a low RMS of 0.64 nm in an area of 10 x 10 pm2. The homoepitaxial layer was obtained at 1500℃ with low growth rate （〈 5 μm/h） and the 3C-SiC epilayers were obtained at 1650 ℃ with a growth rate of 60-70 μm/h. It is estimated that the structural properties of the epilayers have a relationship with the growth temperature and growth rate. Silicon droplets with different sizes are observed on the surface of the homoepitaxial layer in a low C/Si ratio of 0.32.     

γ-LiAlO2衬底上m面GaN薄膜的各向异性的测试和分析

A 0.09 mm m-plane GaN film is deposited via hydride vapor phase epitaxy （HVPE） on a γ-LiAlO2 substrate. To research the anisotropy between directions with different angles with the c-axis in the m plane, photoluminescence （PL） measurements were carried out. The results show that the electronic transition was influenced by the electric field along the c-axis, which results in an obvious anisotropy, but the influence was weakened by the hexagonal symmetry along the c-axis.     

Sheet carrier density dependent Rashba spin splitting in the Alo.sGao.sN/GaN/ Alo.sGao.sN quantum well＊

The Rashba coefficient and Rashba spin splitting for the first subband of the Alo.5Gao.5N/GaN/ Alo.5Gao.5N quantum well （QW） with various sheet carrier densities （Ns） are calculated by solving Schr6dinger and Poisson equations self-consistently. The Rashba spin splitting for the first subband at the Fermi level is considerable and increases evidently with Ns, since the Rashba coefficient, especially the Fermi wave vector increase rapidly. With increasing Ns, the peak of the wave function for the first subband moves towards the left heterointerface, and the average electric field in the well increases, so the two dominant contributions coming from the well and the heterointerface increase. Therefore, the strong polarization electric field and high density of 2DEG in III-nitrides heterostructures are of great importance to a and make the Rashba spin splitting in A1GaN/GaN QWs comparable to that of narrow-gap III-V materials. The results indicate that the sheet carrier density is an important parameter affecting the Rashba coefficient and Rashba spin splitting in A1GaN/GaN QWs, showing the possible application of this material system in spintronic devices.