The smart grid is conceived of as an electric grid that can deliver electricity in a controlled, smart way from points of generation to active consumers. Demand response (DR), by promoting the interaction and responsiveness of the customers, may offer a broad range of potential benefits on system operation and expansion and on market efficiency. Moreover, by improving the reliability of the power system and, in the long term, lowering peak demand, DR reduces overall plant and capital cost investments and postpones the need for network upgrades. In this paper a survey of DR potentials and benefits in smart grids is presented. Innovative enabling technologies and systems, such as smart meters, energy controllers, communication systems, decisive to facilitate the coordination of efficiency and DR in a smart grid, are described and discussed with reference to real industrial case studies and research projects.

Demand response and smart grids—A survey

This document provides updates to IEEE Std 802.16's MIB for the MAC, PHY and asso- ciated management procedures in order to accommodate recent extensions to the standard.

IEEE Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks Part 16: Air Interface for Fixed Broadband Wireless Access Systems Draft Amendment: Management Information Base Extensions

With the explosive growth of mobile data demand, the fifth generation (5G) mobile network would exploit the enormous amount of spectrum in the millimeter wave (mmWave) bands to greatly increase communication capacity. There are fundamental differences between mmWave communications and existing other communication systems, in terms of high propagation loss, directivity, and sensitivity to blockage. These characteristics of mmWave communications pose several challenges to fully exploit the potential of mmWave communications, including integrated circuits and system design, interference management, spatial reuse, anti-blockage, and dynamics control. To address these challenges, we carry out a survey of existing solutions and standards, and propose design guidelines in architectures and protocols for mmWave communications. We also discuss the potential applications of mmWave communications in the 5G network, including the small cell access, the cellular access, and the wireless backhaul. Finally, we discuss relevant open research issues including the new physical layer technology, software-defined network architecture, measurements of network state information, efficient control mechanisms, and heterogeneous networking, which should be further investigated to facilitate the deployment of mmWave communication systems in the future 5G networks.

A survey of millimeter wave communications (mmWave) for 5G: opportunities and challenges

Cognitive radio (CR) is the enabling technology for supporting dynamic spectrum access: the policy that addresses the spectrum scarcity problem that is encountered in many countries. Thus, CR is widely regarded as one of the most promising technologies for future wireless communications. To make radios and wireless networks truly cognitive, however, is by no means a simple task, and it requires collaborative effort from various research communities, including communications theory, networking engineering, signal processing, game theory, software-hardware joint design, and reconfigurable antenna and radio-frequency design. In this paper, we provide a systematic overview on CR networking and communications by looking at the key functions of the physical (PHY), medium access control (MAC), and network layers involved in a CR design and how these layers are crossly related. In particular, for the PHY layer, we will address signal processing techniques for spectrum sensing, cooperative spectrum sensing, and transceiver design for cognitive spectrum access. For the MAC layer, we review sensing scheduling schemes, sensing-access tradeoff design, spectrum-aware access MAC, and CR MAC protocols. In the network layer, cognitive radio network (CRN) tomography, spectrum-aware routing, and quality-of-service (QoS) control will be addressed. Emerging CRNs that are actively developed by various standardization committees and spectrum-sharing economics will also be reviewed. Finally, we point out several open questions and challenges that are related to the CRN design.

Cognitive radio networking and communications: an overview

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communications have recently attracted large research interest, since the huge available bandwidth can potentially lead to the rates of multiple gigabit per second per user Though mmWave can be readily used in stationary scenarios, such as indoor hotspots or backhaul, it is challenging to use mmWave in mobile networks, where the transmitting/receiving nodes may be moving, channels may have a complicated structure, and the coordination among multiple nodes is difficult To fully exploit the high potential rates of mmWave in mobile networks, lots of technical problems must be addressed This paper presents a comprehensive survey of mmWave communications for future mobile networks (5G and beyond) We first summarize the recent channel measurement campaigns and modeling results Then, we discuss in detail recent progresses in multiple input multiple output transceiver design for mmWave communications After that, we provide an overview of the solution for multiple access and backhauling, followed by the analysis of coverage and connectivity Finally, the progresses in the standardization and deployment of mmWave for mobile networks are discussed

Millimeter Wave Communications for Future Mobile Networks

Miniaturization of a rectangular monopole antenna fed sideward from a ground plate by modifying its cross-sectional shape was investigated. It was found that the monopole under the ground plate can be shortened by making the cross-section T-shaped without significantly degrading the wideband impedance matching property. A design to achieve fractional bandwidth of about 107% with miniaturizing of the antenna about 28% is presented.

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Wideband T-shaped cross-section monopole antenna fed sideward from a ground plate

Une section de reception (201) produit un signal recu. Une section d'estimation (202) estime les caracteristiques du chemin de transmission, en utilisant le signal recu et un signal de donnees module. Une section de compensation (203) produit un signal de donnees compense, en utilisant le signal recu et les caracteristiques du chemin de transmission. Une section de demodulation (204) demodule un signal de donnees module, en utilisant le signal de donnees compense. Une section de modulation (205) module un signal de donnees module, en utilisant le signal de donnees demodule. La section d'estimation (202) commence l'estimation en comparant un resultat obtenu en modulant des donnees connues et une partie de donnees connues du signal recu. La section de compensation (203) compense une partie du signal de donnees non compense, en utilisant les caracteristiques du chemin de transmission estimees.

Recepteur, procede de reception, et milieu d'enregistrement qui enregistre un programme pour recevoir des signaux de donnees

When a base station generates an FCM, the base station detects the use rate of a transmission buffer and decides how slots of a frame of an uplink channel are structured. When the use rate of the transmission buffer is high, the base station designates the number of ACTSs to 0 so that the base station does not accept registration requests and so forth from mobile stations. When the use rate of the transmission buffer is low, the base station designates the number of ACTSs to 1. When the number of mobile stations is large as in a large convention hall, the base station generates TDMA frames each of which has only ACTSs. The base station can decide the number of ATCSs corresponding to the probability of which registration requests and so forth from mobile stations collide.

Data rate dependent control channel allocation

Pilot subcarriers are very useful in the measurement of channel indicator such as CINR, frequency offset estimation and channel estimation. They are applied widely in many existing standards such as IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.16 and IEEE 802.22. In this paper, a set of pilot patten is proposed for a network operating in VHF/UHF band based on 802.16 WiMax design pattern. Rationales behind the choice of the pattern will be explained. Evaluation of the performance for the proposed pilot pattern and the WiMax pilot pattern is carried out with different decoding method under AWGN and under different channel models in the VHF/UHF band. The effects of different pilot symbol insertion schemes on the error performance of OFDM-QPSK are evaluated and a mathematical relationship for calculating the gain shift caused by different pilot symbols occupation rate is derived and discussed.

The evaluation of pilot symbol pattern in OFDM system from practical perspective

In one-cell-frequency-reuse Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access based Time Division Multiple Access (OF/TDMA) systems, communication is blocked by interference from adjacent cells. The most promising solution would be an adaptive modulation and coding scheme that is controlled by estimating the signal-to-interference ratio (SIR). However, there has so far been no way to accurately estimate the SIR using the spreading codes for OF/TDMA systems, because of the asynchronous fast Fourier transform (FFT). In this paper, we propose a novel SIR estimation method that uses a spread pulse-wave symbol and carrier interferometry. Moreover, to introduce multi-input multi-output systems, we modify the proposed method by allocating a different spreading code to each cell. Computer simulation confirmed that the SIR is estimated accurately even if the FFT is asynchronous. On cell boundaries, the average estimation errors that are a ratio between accurate and estimated propagation characteristics are less than 2dB.

Hiroshi Harada

Papers

Wideband T-shaped cross-section monopole antenna fed sideward from a ground plate

Recepteur, procede de reception, et milieu d'enregistrement qui enregistre un programme pour recevoir des signaux de donnees

Data rate dependent control channel allocation

The evaluation of pilot symbol pattern in OFDM system from practical perspective

A Novel Method of Estimating the Signal-to-Interference Ratio for One-Cell-Frequency-Reuse OF/TDMA Systems