Adlen Ksentini
Institut Eurécom
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IEEE Communications Magazine | 2014
Xiaofei Wang; Min Chen; Tarik Taleb; Adlen Ksentini; Victor C. M. Leung
The demand for rich multimedia services over mobile networks has been soaring at a tremendous pace over recent years. However, due to the centralized architecture of current cellular networks, the wireless link capacity as well as the bandwidth of the radio access networks and the backhaul network cannot practically cope with the explosive growth in mobile traffic. Recently, we have observed the emergence of promising mobile content caching and delivery techniques, by which popular contents are cached in the intermediate servers (or middleboxes, gateways, or routers) so that demands from users for the same content can be accommodated easily without duplicate transmissions from remote servers; hence, redundant traffic can be significantly eliminated. In this article, we first study techniques related to caching in current mobile networks, and discuss potential techniques for caching in 5G mobile networks, including evolved packet core network caching and radio access network caching. A novel edge caching scheme based on the concept of content-centric networking or information-centric networking is proposed. Using trace-driven simulations, we evaluate the performance of the proposed scheme and validate the various advantages of the utilization of caching content in 5G mobile networks. Furthermore, we conclude the article by exploring new relevant opportunities and challenges.
IEEE Communications Magazine | 2006
Adlen Ksentini; Mohamed Naimi; Abdelhak Mourad Guéroui
The recently developed H.264 video standard achieves efficient encoding over a bandwidth ranging from a few kilobits per second to several megabits per second. Hence, transporting H.264 video is expected to be an important component of many wireless multimedia services, such as video conferencing, real-time network gaming, and TV broadcasting. However, due to wireless channel characteristics and lack of QoS support, the basic 802.11-based channel access procedure is merely sufficient to deliver non-real-time traffic. The delivery should be augmented by appropriate mechanisms to better consider different QoS requirements and ultimately adjust the medium access parameters to the video data content characteristics. In this article we address H.264 wireless video transmission over IEEE 802.11 WLAN by proposing a robust cross-layer architecture that leverages the inherent H.264 error resilience tools (i.e., data partitioning); and the existing QoS-based IEEE 802.11e MAC protocol possibilities. The performances of the proposed architecture are extensively investigated by simulations. Results obtained indicate that compared to 802.11 and 802.11e, our cross-layer architecture allows graceful video degradation while minimizing the mean packet loss and end-to-end delays.
IEEE Network | 2013
Tarik Taleb; Adlen Ksentini
This article introduces the Follow-Me Cloud concept and proposes its framework. The proposed framework is aimed at smooth migration of all or only a required portion of an ongoing IP service between a data center and user equipment of a 3GPP mobile network to another optimal DC with no service disruption. The service migration and continuity is supported by replacing IP addressing with service identification. Indeed, an FMC service/application is identified, upon establishment, by a session/service ID, dynamically changing along with the service being delivered over the session; it consists of a unique identifier of UE within the 3GPP mobile network, an identifier of the cloud service, and dynamically changing characteristics of the cloud service. Service migration in FMC is triggered by change in the IP address of the UE due to a change of data anchor gateway in the mobile network, in turn due to UE mobility and/or for load balancing. An optimal DC is then selected based on the features of the new data anchor gateway. Smooth service migration and continuity are supported thanks to logic installed at UE and DCs that maps features of IP flows to the session/service ID.
international conference on information technology: new generations | 2009
Kandaraj Piamrat; César Viho; Jean-Marie Bonnin; Adlen Ksentini
As wireless networks have been increasingly deployed, the need of quality measurement became essential since network operators want to control their network resources while maintaining user satisfaction. More importantly, measurement of technical parameters fails to give an account of the user experience, what could be named QoE (Quality of Experience). Therefore, many techniques have been developed in order to assess as accurately as possible this perceptual quality. To investigate QoE measurement, this paper presents three approaches namely subjective approach, objective approach, and hybrid approach. It also presents performance evaluation of these approaches for assessing QoE in video streaming application over wireless networks in different network conditions (using variation of loss rate and its distribution). We focus more specifically on a hybrid approach called Pseudo Subjective Quality Assessment (PSQA) that keeps advantages of both subjective and objective schemes while minimizing their drawbacks. We demonstrate that this approach provides good estimations comparing to the well-known objective metric called Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR). We also observe that PSQA gives similar result comparing to subjective test that has been evaluated by human observers in most of the cases. Moreover, one objective of this evaluation is to validate PSQA for QoE measurement, which will facilitate the use of QoE as metric for resource management in the future. For that, we also give some possible directions allowing us to manage network resources using this metric.
Computer Communications | 2011
Kandaraj Piamrat; Adlen Ksentini; Jean-Marie Bonnin; César Viho
Deployment of heterogeneous wireless networks is spreading throughout the world as users want to be connected anytime, anywhere, and anyhow. Meanwhile, these users are increasingly interested in multimedia applications such as video streaming and Voice over IP (VoIP), which require strict Quality of Service (QoS) support. Provisioning network resources with such constraints is a challenging task. In fact, considering the availability of various access technologies (WiFi, WiMAX, or cellular networks), it is difficult for a network operator to find reliable criteria to select the best network that ensures user satisfaction while maximizing network utilization. Designing an efficient Radio Resource Management (RRM), in this type of environment, is mandatory for solving such problems. In order to provide a better understanding of RRMs design, this paper presents a detailed investigation of key challenges that constitute an efficient RRM framework. More importantly, an overview with a classification of recent solutions, in terms of decision making, is provided along with the discussion.
IEEE Network | 2012
Adlen Ksentini; Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul; Tarik Taleb
One of the most important problems posed by cellular-based machine type communications is congestion. Congestion concerns all the parts of the network, both the radio and the core network impacting both the user data plane and the control plane. In this article, we address the problem of congestion in machine type communications. We propose a congestion-aware admission control solution that selectively rejects signaling messages from MTC devices at the radio access network following a probability that is set based on a proportional integrative derivative controller reflecting the congestion level of a relevant core network node. We evaluate the performance of our proposed solution using computer simulations. The obtained results are encouraging. In fact, we succeed in reducing the amount of signaling while maintaining a target utilization ratio of resources in the core network.
IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials | 2013
Martin Kennedy; Adlen Ksentini; Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul; Gabriel-Miro Muntean
Over the last couple of years, there has been an exponential increase in the number of applications accessible from various mobile handsets, including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. In particular, rich media service distribution among smart-phones and other handheld devices is becoming increasingly popular among users. In fact, the next generation wireless technologies have put significant emphasis on supporting distribution of rich media content and video-on-demand services. However, energy consumption in the handheld wireless devices is a major bottleneck that hinders the growth of mobile device based rich media services. The biggest problem today in the mobile world is that the mobile devices are battery driven and the battery technologies are not matching the required energy demand. This paper outlines the major energy-consuming components in handheld devices like smart-phones, PDAs and other multimedia-centric wireless devices. Further, this paper surveys different research works on how the energy consumption could be optimized and provides detailed discussions on the latest energy saving techniques in the major components of the mobile devices. In addition, the paper surveys other systemic energy optimization techniques so that the overall battery life of the device is increased. Major global research projects and their research focus are then surveyed. Finally, a brief summary is provided along with some open research problems and different possible future research directions.
IEEE Network | 2005
Abdelhamid Nafaa; Adlen Ksentini; Ahmed Mehaoua; B. lshibashi; Youssef Iraqi; Raouf Boutaba
A number of works have tried to adjust the contention window in order to provide differentiated quality of service in IEEE 802.11-based wireless networks. By giving different service classes different CWs, the distribution of backoff intervals (chosen randomly, on the interval [O, CW]) will reflect the desired service classes. However, these protocols cannot deliver firm service guarantees while maintaining high network utilization, particularly under congested network conditions. In this article we propose a new MAC protocol featuring a sliding CW (SCW) for each network flow. The SCW dynamically adjusts to changing network conditions, but remains within a per-class predefined range in order to maintain a separation between different service classes. Each flows SCW reacts based on the degree to which class-defined QoS metrics are satisfied. Simulation results show that compared to the enhanced distributed coordination function (EDCF) scheme of 802.11e, SCW consistently excels, in terms of network utilization, strict service separation, and service-level fairness.
vehicular technology conference | 2008
Kandaraj Piamrat; Adlen Ksentini; César Viho; Jean-Marie Bonnin
Widespread use of wireless networks nowadays raises many problems for service providers in managing their resources. These problems are caused mainly by restricted bandwidth and variable radio condition in this type of network. Moreover, with the emergence of multimedia traffic and its requirements in terms of quality, admission control is hence an inevitable choice to optimize network resources while maintaining high service quality at users. In this paper, we propose an admission control mechanism based on quality of experience (QoE) perceived by users. The human QoE is obtained by a tool called pseudo subjective quality assessment (PSQA), which is based on statistic learning using random neural network (RNN). Instead of relying on technical parameters such as bandwidth, loss, or latency, which do not correlate well with human perception, our scheme is based on mean opinion score (MOS) but without interaction from real humans. The simulation results demonstrate the better performance of our proposition compared to the loss-based approach regarding user satisfaction evaluated by achieved QoE at user and bandwidth utilization of the network evaluated by good put.
wireless communications and networking conference | 2014
Mouloud Bagaa; Tarik Taleb; Adlen Ksentini
Carrier Cloud is a promising concept towards the decentralization of mobile networks, to, in turn, alleviate mobile traffic load and reduce mobile operator cost. Carrier cloud is enabled by two main approaches, namely virtualization of the mobile network functions and networking over federated cloud. For intelligent carrier cloud dimensioning, the placement of mobile network functions over federated cloud is of vital importance. In this vein, this paper argues the need for adopting service/application type and requirements as metrics for (i) creating virtual instances of the Packet Data Network Gateways (PDN-GW) and (ii) selecting adequate virtual PDN-GWs for User Equipment receiving specific application type. After modeling this procedure as a nonlinear Optimization Problem and proving it as a NP-hard problem, we propose three solutions to solve it. The proposed solutions are evaluated through computer simulations and encouraging results are obtained.
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