Enabling Technologies towards Next Generation Mobile Systems and Networks

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Mobile Information Systems
Enabling Technologies towards Next
Generation Mobile Systems and
Networks
Guest Editors: Yeong M. Jang, Juan C. Cano, Kun Yang, and Young-June Choi
Enabling Technologies towards Next Generation
Mobile Systems and Networks
Mobile Information Systems
Enabling Technologies towards Next Generation
Mobile Systems and Networks
Guest Editors: Yeong M. Jang, Juan C. Cano, Kun Yang,
and Young-June Choi
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Editor-in-Chief
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MarkosAnastassopoulos,UK MicheleGaretto,Italy FrancescoPalmieri,Italy
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CarlosT.Calafate,Spain DikLunLee,HongKong MicheleRuta,Italy
MaríaCalderon,Spain HuaLu,Denmark CarmenSantoro,Italy
JuanC.Cano,Spain SergioMascetti,Italy StefaniaSardellitti,Italy
SalvatoreCarta,Italy ElioMasciari,Italy FlorianoScioscia,Italy
Yuh-ShyanChen,Taiwan MaristellaMatera,Italy LuisJ.G.Villalba,Spain
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Contents
EnablingTechnologiestowardsNextGeneration MobileSystemsandNetworks
YeongM.Jang,JuanC.Cano,KunYang,andYoung-JuneChoi
Volume2016,ArticleID9805636,2pages
SurveyofPromisingTechnologiesfor5GNetworks
NamTuanLe,MohammadArifHossain,AmirulIslam,Do-yunKim,Young-JuneChoi,andYeongMinJang
Volume2016,ArticleID2676589,25pages
AnArchitectureofIoTServiceDelegationandResourceAllocationBasedonCollaborationbetween
FogandCloudComputing
AymenAbdullahAlsaffar,HungPhuocPham,Choong-SeonHong,
Eui-NamHuh,andMohammadAazam
Volume2016,ArticleID6123234,15pages
MultivariateMultipleRegressionModelsforaBigData-EmpoweredSONFrameworkinMobile
WirelessNetworks
YoonsuShin,Chan-ByoungChae,andSongkukKim
Volume2016,ArticleID3489193,10pages
mCSQAM:ServiceQualityAssessmentModelinMobileCloudServicesEnvironment
Young-RokShinandEui-NamHuh
Volume2016,ArticleID2517052,9pages
SecuringSDNSouthboundandDataPlaneCommunicationwithIBC
JunHuyLam,Sang-GonLee,Hoon-JaeLee,andYustusEkoOktian
Volume2016,ArticleID1708970,12pages
Data-DrivenHandoverOptimizationinNextGenerationMobileCommunicationNetworks
Po-ChiangLin,LionelF.GonzalezCasanova,andBakaryK.S.Fatty
Volume2016,ArticleID2368427,11pages
HierarchicalBrokeringwithFeedbackControlFrameworkinMobileDevice-CentricClouds
Chao-LiehChen,Chao-ChunChen,andChun-TingChen
Volume2016,ArticleID3057397,11pages
SDNBasedUser-CentricFrameworkforHeterogeneousWirelessNetworks
ZhaomingLu,TaoLei,XiangmingWen,LuhanWang,andXinChen
Volume2016,ArticleID9874969,9pages
PerformanceEvaluationofMovingSmall-CellNetworkwithProactiveCache
YoungMinKwon,SyedTariqShah,JaeSheungShin, Ae-SoonPark,andMinYoungChung
Volume2016,ArticleID6013158,11pages
SmartCop:EnablingSmartTrafficViolationsTicketinginVehicularNamedDataNetworks
SyedHassanAhmed,MuhammadAzfarYaqub,SafdarHussainBouk,andDongkyunKim
Volume2016,ArticleID1353290,12pages
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Editorial
Enabling Technologies towards Next Generation
Mobile Systems and Networks
YeongM.Jang,1JuanC.Cano,2KunYang,3andYoung-JuneChoi4
1KookminUniversity,Seoul,RepublicofKorea
2UniversitatPolite`cnicadeValencia,Valencia,Spain
3UniversityofEssex,Colchester,UK
4AjouUniversity,Suwon,RepublicofKorea
CorrespondenceshouldbeaddressedtoYeongM.Jang;[email protected]
Received4December2016;Accepted5December2016
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Mobile services have become an essential part in the era resourcestoensureQoSandservicelevelagreement(SLA).
of 5G networks. The mobile system will be based on cloud Theirproposedschemeshowsimprovedmanagement,better
computing, IoT, user-centric services, and mobile commu- servicedelegation,efficientresourceallocation,andbigdata
nication.Cloudserviceisnecessarytosupportmobilityand distributioncomparedtotheexistingmethods.
real-timeoperation,reliablecontentdeliverysuchascontent- Thepaper“MultivariateMultipleRegressionModelsfor
centric network, and content delivery networks together aBigData-EmpoweredSONFrameworkinMobileWireless
withmobilecloudsystems.Nextgenerationmobilesystems Networks” by Y. Shin et al. outlines the background of big
and networks are also facing a huge challenge to handle a data,bigdataself-organizingnetworks(BSON)framework,
large number of IoT devices because in the near future all andmultipleregressionmodels.Theauthorsproposemulti-
the devices will be connected with each other. So effective variatemultipleregressionmodelsfortheBSONframework
networks and systems are necessary to manage and handle withtheimplementationusingMapReduce.
theincreasingnumbersofdevicessuchascloudcomputing, Thepapertitled“mCSQAM:ServiceQualityAssessment
automatednetworkmanagement,newserviceplatforms,and ModelinMobileCloudServicesEnvironment”byY.-R.Shin
new network architectures (e.g., Software Defined Network and E.-N. Huh proposes an architecture named mCSQAM
(SDN)andNetworkFunctionVirtualization(NFV))towards todeterminethequalitymetricsforlimitingtheproblemsof
thepromising5Gmobilenetworksandservices. cloudcomputing.TheauthorsproposeanAnalyticHierarchy
In this special issue, we have invited a few papers that Process (AHP) method to access the mobile cloud services
address such issues. Among them, ten selected papers are basedondifferentrequirementsfromtheserviceconsumers.
addressed to researchers and engineers practicing in the Thepapernamed“SecuringSDNSouthboundandData
scientific areas for the next generation mobile system and Plane Communication with IBC” by J. Lam et al. presents
networks. a distributed SDN secured communication with a multido-
The paper entitled “An Architecture of IoT Service main capable Identity-Based Cryptography (IBC) protocol,
DelegationandResourceAllocationBasedonCollaboration particularlyforthesouthboundandwirelessdataplanecom-
between Fog and Cloud Computing” by A. A. Alsaffar et munication. They also analyzed the TLS-secured Message
al. presents an architecture and new algorithm for smart Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) message exchange
IoT service based on three conditions for managing and protocoltofindoutthepossiblebandwidthsavedwithIBC.
delegatinguserrequest.Theyalsoproposeanewtechnique The authors argue that this system is easier to use because
to take care of fog and cloud environment by allocating it ensures higher network performance and lower power
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consumptionoftheIoTdevicesaswellassupportingmore Thepaperentitled“SurveyofPromisingTechnologiesfor
IoTdeviceswithoutupgradingtheinfrastructure. 5G Networks” by N. T. Le et al. provides a comprehensive
The paper “Data-Driven Handover Optimization in surveyofthepromisingtechnologiesfor5Gnetworkssuchas
Next Generation Mobile Communication Networks” by P.- SoftwareDefinedNetworking(SDN),cloudcomputing,IoT,
C. Lin et al. addresses network densification problems andotherwirelesstechnologies.Theyoutlinethesurveysand
(mobility problems) for next generation mobile communi- providethefutureresearchdirectionofthesetechnologiesfor
cationnetworksduetotheincreasingnetworkcapacity.The 5Gnetworks.
authorsproposeadata-drivenhandoveroptimization(DHO)
methodtomitigatetheproblems.TheDHOapproachcollects Acknowledgments
datafrommobilecommunicationtoformamodelthrougha
keyperformanceindicator(KPI).Theauthorsthinkthatthe Wewouldliketothanktheauthorswhosubmittedtheirarti-
resultsusingtheproposedapproachcouldsuccessfullyrelieve clestothisissueandthereviewersforprovidingconstructive
themobilityproblems. andtimelyfeedback.
Thepapernamed“HierarchicalBrokeringwithFeedback
YeongM.Jang
Control Framework in Mobile Device-Centric Clouds” by
JuanC.Cano
C.-L.Chenetal.presentsahierarchicalbrokeringarchitec-
KunYang
ture (HiBA) and Mobile Multicloud Networking (MMCN)
Young-JuneChoi
feedback control framework for next generation device-
centriccloudcomputingwiththemathematicalanalysisfor
availability and network latency. The authors perform an
experiment with HiBA federates heterogeneous mobile and
fixeddevicesinthreetiersusingdifferentnetworkinterfaces.
Fromtheresults,itshowsthattheapproachisanamended
platformformobilecloudcomputingandensuresasensible
solutiontovariousservices.
The paper titled “SDN Based User-Centric Framework
forHeterogeneousWirelessNetworks”byZ.Luetal.designs
anewframeworkforheterogeneouswirelessnetworkswith
the support of user-centricity to fulfill users’ preferences
and requirements. Away from the conventional framework
SDNbasedframeworkprovidesbetterperformance.AsSDN
hasdecoupleddataandcontrolplanevirtuallyandlogically
centralized structure, it is easy to manage the HetNets in
an efficient and flexible way. In this paper, the authors also
analyzethepossibleoverheadsoftheuser-centricframework
suchassignalingoverheadandcontroldelay.
Thepaper“PerformanceEvaluationofMovingSmall-Cell
NetworkwithProactiveCache”byY.M.Kwonetal.presentsa
movingsmall-cells(mSCs)network,itsarchitecture,andthe
proposedproactivecachingmechanism.Theresultsconfirm
that the QoS of moving cell can be improved by using
mSCs together with proactive caching which also reduces
thewirelessbackhaulloadandincreasestheoverallnetwork
capacity. The authors also argue that the overall network
performance is highly dependent on the number of mSCs
deployed,cachesize,andcontentpopularity.
The paper entitled “SmartCop: Enabling Smart Traffic
Violations Ticketing in Vehicular Named Data Networks”
by S. H. Ahmed et al. addresses a problem of smart traffic
violation ticketing (TVT) in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks
(VANETs). The existing technologies are not suitable for
VANETs as its dependency on named contents instead of
host contents. In this paper, the authors propose a smart
TVTsystemforvehicularnameddatanetworkingtermedas
SmartCop which helps a cop vehicle (CV) to issue a TVT
totheoffendersautonomously.Theyalsoprovidesimulated
comparisonresultsformessagingdelay,ticketissuingdelay,
andpercentageofdetectionfordifferentvehicles,CVs,and
alsothevehiclesspeedswhicharebeingassessed.
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Review Article
Survey of Promising Technologies for 5G Networks
NamTuanLe,1MohammadArifHossain,1AmirulIslam,1Do-yunKim,2
Young-JuneChoi,2andYeongMinJang1
1DepartmentofElectronicsEngineering,KookminUniversity,Seoul,RepublicofKorea
2DepartmentofComputerEngineering,AjouUniversity,Suwon,RepublicofKorea
CorrespondenceshouldbeaddressedtoYeongMinJang;[email protected]
Received1April2016;Revised18October2016;Accepted25October2016
AcademicEditor:Yuh-ShyanChen
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whichpermitsunrestricteduse,distribution,andreproductioninanymedium,providedtheoriginalworkisproperlycited.
Asanenhancementofcellularnetworks,thefuture-generation5Gnetworkcanbeconsideredanultra-high-speedtechnology.The
proposed5Gnetworkmightincludealltypesofadvanceddominanttechnologiestoprovideremarkableservices.Consequently,
new architectures and service management schemes for different applications of the emerging technologies need to be
recommendedtosolveissuesrelatedtodatatrafficcapacity,highdatarate,andreliabilityforensuringQoS.Cloudcomputing,
Internetofthings(IoT),andsoftware-definednetworking(SDN)havebecomesomeofthecoretechnologiesforthe5Gnetwork.
Cloud-basedservicesprovideflexibleandefficientsolutionsforinformationandcommunicationstechnologybyreducingthecost
ofinvestinginandmanaginginformationtechnologyinfrastructure.Intermsoffunctionality,SDNisapromisingarchitecture
thatdecouplescontrolplanesanddataplanestosupportprogrammability,adaptability,andflexibilityinever-changingnetwork
architectures.However,IoTcombinescloudcomputingandSDNtoachievegreaterproductivityforevolvingtechnologiesin5G
byfacilitatinginteractionbetweenthephysicalandhumanworld.Themajorobjectiveofthisstudyprovidesalawlessvisionon
comprehensiveworksrelatedtoenablingtechnologiesforthenextgenerationofmobilesystemsandnetworks,mainlyfocusingon
5Gmobilecommunications.
1.Introduction in this paper, which provides readers a clear vision of the
currentstatus.
Mobilecommunicationandwirelessnetworkshaveadvanced Theplanningforfuturenetworkarchitectureseemstobe
phenomenally during the last decade. The ever-growing the definition of Next Generation Networks (NGN). NGN,
increase in the demand for resources, especially for multi- a great issue for the internet protocol- (IP-) based future
mediadata,withhighqualityofservice(QoS)requirements, ofmobilenetworkinfrastructure,isconsideredasaconver-
has promoted the development of 3G and 4G wireless genceofcommunicationnetworkswhichtriestoreducecost
networks.Nevertheless,theachievementsofthedevelopment and offers integrated services via a core backbone network.
intechnologycannotfulfillthepropersatisfaction.Therefore, It inherits three different advantages of various networking
theideaof5Gnetworksthatrepresentnetworksbeyond4G technologies, namely, layered structure, standard interfaces
has become the need of the hour. 5G networks have come andmultipleservices,andfunctionsthatcanbeimplemented
into existence owing to the numerous challenges facing 4G inseverallayersrangingfromMACtoapplication.Withthe
networks, such as need for higher data rate and capacity, increase in the number of Internet users and QoS require-
lower cost, lower end-to-end latency, and massive inter- ments, NGN has become a moving trend for deployment.
device connectivity. However, a comprehensive analysis of It established convergence of user access and integrated
futurenetworksornextgenerationnetworksofinformation communication network services with IP technology. The
systemsthatdiscussesinrelatedforumsandstandardization motivation behind the migration of networking systems
isreallychallenging.Theenablingtechnologiesfornextgen- fromthetraditionaltelecommunicationnetworktoNGNhas
erationmobilesystemsandnetworkinghavebeensurveyed been developed based on the advantages of backbone cost
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reduction, possibility of fast and new service deployment, cyber-physicalsystem(CPS),awayforusingembeddedtech-
controllable QoS, compatibility between fixed and wireless nologiesinthefuture-generationnetwork.Physicalsystems
networks, network management centralization, and so on. areunifiedwiththenetworkingandcomputationsystem.The
Existingnetworkservicesbasedmultimediaapplicationsuch scalabilityofthefuture-generationnetworkdependsonthe
asvoice,data,andvideotransmissionathighspeedswillbe IoT system because it is a method of assisting connections
offeredasanimportantoutcomeofNGNdeploymentforthe among a large number of devices in a whole system. IoT
fixedandmobileserviceintegrationtopology.Furthermore, has evolved as a system of uninterrupted communication
NGNprovideslow-costserviceathighdatarates. between any device with another device at any place and
Theconceptofthefuturenetworkcanalsobethefifth- time.However,theIoTarchitecturehascomeunderquestion
generation mobile system, 5G. Over the course of the long lately because it is very difficult to support all devices in
history of mobile communication systems from the first an inflexible architecture with the traditional networking
generation to 4G LTE-A (Long Term Evolution Advanced), system.Consequently,severalorganizations,companies,and
themobilecommunicationsindustryhasachievedenormous committeesareworkingonthestandardizationissuesofIoT
advances in data communication. The next generation can tocreateauniqueplatformforfuture-generationnetworks.
be a revolution in mobile networks that will achieve the Thedevelopmentofnetworkingdependsontheflexibility
best performance in terms of coverage capability, energy andmobilityofusers,andservervisualization,whichplaysan
consumption, data speeds of 1 Gbps, and better security importantroleinrespondingeffectivelyandinatimelyman-
and energy efficiency over spectral compared to previous nertothedynamicrequirementsofapplicationsorusers.The
networking systems. However, the next generation wireless traditionalnetworkinfrastructureiscontinuouslybecoming
communication network has not been defined and char- obsolete because of the lack of these features. Moreover,
acterized exactly. Research on 5G has been initiated by manualchangesinnetworkconfigurationsincreasethecom-
many projects, organizations, and standardization forums. plexityofnetworkmanagement,makingitnearlyimpossible
Such research on 5G might be directed by the limitations attimes.Theexistinginfrastructurecannotsupportpriority-
of current technologies. The key requirements of 5G are based packet-forwarding or dynamic resource allocation to
realwirelesscommunicationwithnolimitationofcoverage users. Hence, network management, at its root level, has
edge,accesspolicy,anddensityzone.Secondly,thenetwork become a challenging issue owing to the limitations of
shouldbeabletosupporthigh-resolutionmultimedia(HD) traditionalhardware-basednetworking,suchascomplexand
broadcastingservice.Thirdly,itshouldhavefasterdataspeeds costly network configuration, and lack of policy changes
thanthepreviousgenerations.Finally,itshouldsupportnew and fault management. As networking technologies evolve,
servicesbasedonwearabledevices.Inaddition,theNGNis the network should be able to support the ever-changing
expectedtohavemassiveinterdeviceconnections,whichcan networkingfunctionalitiesoffuturenetworkinfrastructure,
be termed as Connection of Things. The research on 5G is such as integration with new services, dynamic network
differentfromthatonprevious-generationnetworksbecause control, better QoS, and efficient packet-forwarding. How-
ofthelimitationsofresourcesintheRFband.The5Gwireless ever,traditionalnetworkscannotsupporttheever-changing
networkwillmainlyfocusonnewspectrum,multiple-input- demand of networking technologies. Therefore, software-
multiple-output(MIMO)diversity,transmissionaccess,and definednetworking(SDN),anemergingtechnology,canbe
newarchitectureforcapacityandconnectiontime[1]. employedtoovercomethelimitationsofthecurrentnetworks
ItisaverychallengingissuetomeettheQoSrequirement withtheseparationofnetworkcontrolfromtheunderlying
at a selection service for any network architecture. The dataplanesorswitchingdevices.Bybreakingthevirtualinte-
convergenceofnetworkingandcloudcomputingareunder grationbetweenthedataplaneandthecontrolplaneandby
theconsiderationinNGNstocopewiththeQoSdemand.The usingacentralizedSDNcontroller,SDNprovidesflexibility
controllability,management,andoptimizationofcomputing inchangingnetworkpolicies,easyhardwareimplementation,
resources are the main factors affecting networking perfor- and facilitates network innovation and evolution [3, 4]. By
manceinthecaseofcloudcomputing.Oneoftheadvantages integratingSDNwithnetworkfunctionvirtualization(NFV),
of cloud computing is that it is encapsulation-free, which onecangainaglobalviewoftheentirenetworkbyusingan
meansthatuserscanaccessservicesfromanylocationirre- openinterfacesuchasOpenFlowandthecentralizednetwork
spectiveofhostorenddevice.Usercanuseserviceswithout controller. SDN can support new services and programs at
understanding how they operate or deliver data. However, any level of user requirement or need. Furthermore, SDN
largenumbersofvendorsaregettinginterestedininforma- has attractedconsiderable interest fromboth academia and
tionsupport,storage,andresourcecomputationusingcloud- industryoverthepastfewyears.Itis,afterall,animportant
hosting services. With traditional web technology-based step in the evolution and development of future network
services, the relative positions of client and server strongly infrastructures.
affectthesystemQoSandthequalityofexperience(QoE)[2]. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive overview of
Therefore,future-generationwirelessnetworksarefacedwith the ongoing research on the enabling technologies for the
multiple emerging challenges. The Internet of things (IoT) 5Gnetwork.Wepresentthestatusofworkontheimportant
has emerged as one of the leading technologies for future- technologies and service models for the next generation of
generationtechnologiesbecauseitisbasedontheconceptof mobilesystemsandnetworks.Theremainderofthispaperis
deviceinterconnection,whichcanbeasteptowardachieving organizedasfollows.Anewmodelfornetworkcontrol,SDN,
theQoSandQoErequirements.Itisaconceptualizationofa andNFVisdescribedinSection2,whileSection3presentsa