Novel Network Paradigms: Microfluidic and M2M Communications

Autor: Biral, Andrea
Rok vydání: 2017
Předmět:
circuit overhead
resource allocation
Machine to Machine (M2M) communication
water-filling algorithm
massive access
uplink cellular network
Successive Interference Cancellation (SIC)
Lab-on-a-Chip
Multiple Packet Reception (MPR)
Computer Science::Networking and Internet Architecture
microfluidic/electric duality
microfluidic networking
ING-INF/03 Telecomunicazioni
throughput
energy efficiency
bypass channel
dynamic programming
droplets generation
Settore ING-INF/03 - Telecomunicazioni
Droplet-based microfluidics
droplets routing
Automatic Repeat-reQuest (ARQ)
T-junction switch
Droplet-based microfluidics
Lab-on-a-Chip
microfluidic networking
T-junction switch
bypass channel
microfluidic/electric duality
droplets routing
bus topology
throughput
droplets generation
Pulse Amplitude Modulation
information encoding
Machine to Machine (M2M) communication
energy efficiency
circuit overhead
Internet of Things (IoT)
uplink cellular network
resource allocation
Channel State Information (CSI)
Automatic Repeat-reQuest (ARQ)
water-filling algorithm
dynamic programming
massive access
Multiple Packet Reception (MPR)
Successive Interference Cancellation (SIC)
Internet of Things (IoT)
Channel State Information (CSI)
information encoding
bus topology
Pulse Amplitude Modulation
Popis: The present thesis focuses on two appealing paradigms that are expected to characterize the next generation of communication systems: microfluidic networking and Machine to Machine (M2M) Communications. Concerning the former topic, we show how it is possible to introduce switching and routing mechanism in microfluidic systems. We define some simple mathematical models that capture the macroscopic behavior of droplets in microfluidic networks. Then, we use them to implement a simulator that is able to reproduce the motion and predict the path of droplets in a generic microfluidic system. We validate the simulator and apply it to design a network with bus topology. Finally, we prove the feasibility of attaining molecular communication in this domain by describing a simple protocol that exploits droplets length/interdistance modulation to send information. The research activity on M2M, instead, is aimed at the investigation of two critical issues that are expected to affect Machine-Type Communication (MTC), i.e. energy efficiency and massive access. Regarding energy efficiency, we address the problem of delivering a fixed data payload over a Rayleigh fading wireless channel with the purpose of minimizing the average total energy cost, given by the sum of the transmit energy and an overhead circuit energy, to complete it. This scenario is well suited for uplink cellular MTC in future 5G Internet of Things (IoT) use cases, where the focus is more on device energy efficiency than on throughput. We describe the optimal transmission policies to be used under various coordinated access scenarios with different levels of channel state information and transmitter/receiver capabilities, and show the corresponding theoretical bounds. In the last part of the work, we study the asymptotic performance of uncoordinated access schemes with Multi Packet Reception (MPR) and Successive Interference Cancellation (SIC) techniques for contention resolution at the receiver. The corresponding results in terms of throughput in a massive access M2M scenario are finally evaluated and discussed.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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