Long Term Evolution Technology Research Articles

Saffron corm sorting and rot treatment strategy for productivity enhancement for precision agriculture

One of the most economical and precious spices ever known is saffron. It has innumerable pharmaceutical applications, and its cultivation is limited to certain topographic regions throughout the world. Although efforts are continuously being made to increase productivity and increase the area under cultivation, there are multiple factors leading to its low production. Corm size is one of the major factors affecting the quality and production of saffron. The more the corm size for a plantation, the better the yield of the crop. This can pose a serious threat to saffron cultivators who are not able to get good quality corms and sort quality corms from infected ones. Additional factors affecting saffron cultivation include attack by fungus leading to corm rots and sclerotineal disease. In this paper, IoT (Internet of Things) has been used to provide an energy-efficient, ready-to-use, reliable, and user-friendly solution for corm sorting and treatment before sowing to promote quality, better yield and minimized wastage due to corm rots. After sorting the corms, they are treated with 0.2% of tiabendazole fungicide solution and dried, before sowing and for long-term storage. Firstly, sorting and treatment system for the saffron corms processing as per weight is proposed. First two-layer cleaning mechanism to remove foreign substances, then three-step treatment has been applied to remove microorganisms. An automated conveyor system equipped with IoT devices was used for sorting and treating saffron corms. Different energy efficient LPWA (Low Power Wide Area) and LTE (Long Term Evolution) technologies used in the framework, for communication are NB-IoT (Narrow Band IoT) and LoRa (Long Range Radio).

Network Performance and Technological Feasibility of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Network Extension

The operational range of conventional and license-free radio-controlled drones is limited due to line-of-sight restrictions (LoS). There exists a definitive method for operating a drone. Consequently, in order to fly the drone beyond the visual line of sight (BVLoS), it is necessary to replace the drone's original wireless communications equipment with a device that requires a licence and is connected to a cellular network. Long-Term Evolution (LTE), a terrestrial communication technique, enables a drone to establish a real-time connection with a ground station. This connection serves the goals of command and control (C&C) as well as payload delivery. Nevertheless, it is important to note that the electromagnetic environment undergoes changes as altitude increases, which can potentially complicate the process of interfacing with drones over terrestrial cellular networks. The objective of this article is to develop a prototype control system for low-altitude microdrones using LTE technology. Additionally, it seeks to assess the feasibility and effectiveness of cellular connectivity for drones operating at various altitudes. This evaluation will be conducted by examining factors like as latency, handover, and signal strength. At a certain altitude, the received signal experiences a decrease in power level by 20 dBm and a degradation in signal quality by 10 dB. The data throughput of the downlink had a fall of 70%, while the latency exhibited an increase of 94 ms. Despite meeting the basic criteria for drone cellular connection, the existing LTE network necessitates enhancements in order to expand aerial coverage, mitigate interference, and minimise network latency.

Underlay Loosely Coupled Model for Public Safety Networks Based on Device-to-Device Communication

In several emergency situations, during natural or human-caused disasters, frontline responders need to be able to communicate and collaborate to properly carry out relief missions. Some countries build their national Public Safety Mobile Broadband based on cellular LTE technology to provide fast, safe, and secure emergency services. However, in several emergency situations, cellular antennas can be overloaded or partially damaged in a manner that affects group communication services. In the last few years, direct device-to-device (D2D) communications have been proposed by the 3GPP as an underlay of long-term evolution (LTE) networks based on proximity, reuse, and hop gains. This paper focuses on a loosely coupled model based on direct D2D communication in a public safety context. Many scenarios related to user membership and network management are detailed. Both the “less cost” and “optimized tree” approaches are proposed and implemented, and their performance is evaluated in terms of the network update number and the resulting average Channel Quality Indicator (CQI). Other optimization approaches, with different CQI thresholds and optimization interval parameters, are simulated to compare their performance with the “optimized tree” approach. By conducting simulations that combine a CQI threshold = 1 and optimization interval = 2 s, it becomes possible to keep an average CQI level close to the “optimized tree” approach, while the costs related to network updates significantly decrease by almost 35%. Other simulations are also carried out to measure the bandwidth required by the control messages between the server and active users. It was found that both inbound and outbound traffic on the server side can be well supported with LTE and 5G networks.

Transmission system model in the track-vehicle relationship based on Long Term Evolution technology

Because of degradations of the wired infrastructure connecting the element of railroad control systems, and related primarily to their destruction, the use of the radio transmission medium for independent management of rail-road traffic control devices is increasingly being considered. An undoubted problem in implying such solutions is the security of transmission in such systems. It should be noted that security at a certain level of transmission is currently already offered by the radio transmission systems themselves, which has also been used in the GSM-R standard. The creation of a separate dedicated system for railroads involves huge expenditures for the design, testing, certification and, finally, construction and implementation of such technology. Therefore, in the opinion of the author of this dissertation, it is possible to use public open radio networks for the needs of railroads, which significantly reduces costs, since such a system is based on existing infrastructure. It is necessary to develop a way of transmitting information that meets the requirements of secure transmission in the sense of railroad traffic control systems. The task is to develop a general model for open radio transmission in traffic control systems based on the latest public radio standard, which is LTE, 5G or Future Railway Mobile Communications System (FRMCS). The article will present the concept of data transmission in the track vehicle relationship with the use of LTE (Long Term Evolution) technology. It will show the concept of transmission based on the PN-EN50159:2011 standard and the results of the tests conducted during control trips on the railway route. The main element that will be subject to the research will include the transmission safety and its delay. The impact of a type of transmission encryption on its delay will be estimated with the assumed blocks of data sent during the transmission. A probability distribution and density functions of the transmission delay probability distribution with the message sizes in the range from 16B to 10 kB with four ways of the signal encoding according to the PN-EN50159:2011 standard will be also analysed.

Cross-Layer Model of Dynamic Distribution of Radio Resources and Data Flow Service in LTE Networks

In this article, the results of the development of a mathematical model for the time-frequency resource allocation of the uplink channel and flow service in LTE (Long Term Evolution) networks are given. The proposed model is aimed at ensuring the maximum performance of the radio channel and the guaranteed quality of service for data flows of wireless network users. A comparative analysis of the proposed model with the existing methods of the time-frequency resource allocation of the LTE technology is carried out in terms of ensuring the overall performance of the uplink and allocating the required transmission rate to user stations while maintaining the quality of service. It is shown that the proposed model of dynamic distribution of radio resources and servicing of data streams increases the overall performance of the uplink compared to the Round Robin and Proportional Fair methods, by 1.42 and 1.23 times, respectively.

Domain Adaptation with Augmented Data by Deep Neural Network Based Method Using Re-Recorded Speech for Automatic Speech Recognition in Real Environment

The most effective automatic speech recognition (ASR) approaches are based on artificial neural networks (ANN). ANNs need to be trained with an adequate amount of matched conditioned data. Therefore, performing training adaptation of an ASR model using augmented data of matched condition as the real environment gives better results for real data. Real-world speech recordings can vary in different acoustic aspects depending on the recording channels and environment such as the Long Term Evolution (LTE) channel of mobile telephones, where data are transmitted with voice over LTE (VoLTE) technology, wireless pin mics in a classroom condition, etc. Acquiring data with such variation is costly. Therefore, we propose training ASR models with simulated augmented data and fine-tune them for domain adaptation using deep neural network (DNN)-based simulated data along with re-recorded data. DNN-based feature transformation creates realistic speech features from recordings of clean conditions. In this research, a comparative investigation is performed for different recording channel adaptation methods for real-world speech recognition. The proposed method yields 27.0% character error rate reduction (CERR) for the DNN-hidden Markov model (DNN-HMM) hybrid ASR approach and 36.4% CERR for the end-to-end ASR approach for the target domain of the LTE channel of telephone speech.

DEVELOPMENT OF THE DOUBLE-CONTOUR PROTECTION CONCEPT IN SOCIO-CYBERPHYSICAL SYSTEMS

The rapid development of mobile Internet technologies LTE (Long-Term Evolution) not only predetermined the further development of cyber-physical systems, which are based on the synthesis of technologies of classical computer systems and LTE technologies, as well as integration with Internet-of-Things technologies. As a result, the emergence of sociocyberphysical systems predetermines further development based on this integration. The creation of mesh- and sensor networks also allows the development of smart technologies and systems based on their conglomeration. The development and creation of a quantum computer, on the one hand, will make it possible to make a technical breakthrough in computing resources, use artificial intelligence, and on the other hand, it can lead to “chaos” in ensuring the security of modern technologies and systems. So, based on the algorithms of Shor and Grover quantum cryptography, symmetric cryptosystems based on traditional cryptography algorithms, as well as asymmetric cryptosystems, including systems based on elliptic curve cryptography, can be broken. The paper proposes to use a new approach to building security systems based on the concept of internal and external security contours. At the same time, security contours of continuous business processes are considered. This approach provides an objective assessment of the current state of security of the socio-cyber system as a whole.

The quality of service of the deployed LTE technology by mobile network operators in Abuja-Nigeria

In this study, the real-world performance analysis of four Nigerian mobile network operators (MNOs), namely MTN, GLO, Airtel, and 9Mobile long-term evolution (LTE) cellular network, were analyzed and compared. The Nigerian MNOs utilize 5 MHz, 10 MH, and 20 MHz channel bandwidths based on third-generation partnership project’s (3 GPPs) recommendation. The presented analysis shows the uplink (UL), and downlink (DL) throughputs gaps in mobility condition as well as other LTE’s system quality of service (QoS) key performance indicators (KPI’s) of: Connection drop rate, connection failure rate, peak physical downlink throughput, minimum radio link control (RLC) downlink throughput threshold and latency are not strictly followed. The reason may be due to a lack of regulatory oversight enforcement. The comparative studies showed that MTN provides the best QoS. The introduction of novel LTE QoS metrics herein referred to as national independent wireless broadband quality reporting (NIWBQR) is the significant contribution of this study. The goal of this study is to show the quality of the network as it affects the user's experience. Important observation showed that all the MNOs are not adhering to the 3 GPPs specified user plane latency of 30 ms and control plane latency of 100 ms, respectively, which makes video streaming and low latency communication a near-impossible task.

Analisis Perbandingan Kualitas Jaringan 4G LTE Operator X Dan Y Di Wilayah Kampus Utama UMSU

A technology appears, namely Long Term Evolution (LTE), which is a fourth generation (4G) cellular network technology. This LTE can provide data transfer speeds of up to 100 Mbps on the downlink side and 50 Mbps on the uplink side. The growth in the number of telecommunication service users in Medan City has caused a decline in network quality, especially 4G LTE technology. By doing a drive test, it can be seen the areas where there is signal strength of a network which aims to improve the signal quality of a network. Benchmark (comparison) of 4G LTE operator service quality is done by measuring, comparing, and analyzing the network quality (performance) of two 4G LTE operators around the Muhammadiyah University of North Sumatra campus. The overall throughput value of operator X is only 0> 3 Mbps, while operator Y is 0> 30 Mbps. The very low throughput value is caused by high traffic users during the day, where the Muhammadiyah University of North Sumatra campus is actively studying and many students use data services. That way, people can find out the causes of the internet speed problems they feel when using the internet during the day.

Economic technology analysis of LTE advanced pro dual spectrum licensed and unlicensed access using discounted cash flow methods

<p>Since implementing the long term evolution (LTE) technology, the surge in data service traffic has increased, causing an increase in demand spectrum, which has resulted in gaps in capacity requirements. Wireless service providers can respond to LTE technology updates. With LTE advanced pro technology that utilizes unlicensed spectrum technology can provide solutions to increase capacity and throughput. In this study, LTE advanced pro planning by capacity method to find the number of eNodeB and using the discounted cash flow method to analyze the feasibility of the costs to be invested in the implementation of the LTE. The results of the four simulated scenarios concluded that the number of eNodeB from the IV scenario with 20 MHz bandwidth at 1800 MHz frequency and 20 MHz bandwidth at 5 GHz frequency amounted to 23 sites, with a positive NPV value of $ 271,936.96, IRR of 14.91%, and for payback period occurred in the 3rd year. Thus the fourth scenario is feasible to be implemented.</p>

Network Quality Comparison 4g LTE X And Y in Campus UMSU

Long Term Evolution (LTE) the fourth generation (4G) cellular network technology. This LTE speed in data transfer speed reaching 100 Mbps on the side downlink and 50 Mbps on the uplink side. Growth in the number of service users telecommunication in Medan City causes a decrease in network quality, especially 4G LTE technology. By doing a driving test, the area can be found where a system’s signal strength aims to increase the signal quality. Benchmark (comparison) of operator service quality 4G LTE is done by measuring, comparing, and analyzing network quality (performance) of two 4G LTE operators around Muhammadiyah University of North Sumatra. Total operator throughput value X is only 0 > 3 Mbps while the Y operator is 0 > 30 Mbps. The low throughput value is caused by high user traffic during the day. The incidence of low throughput on the Muhammadiyah University of North Sumatra campus coincides with active learning with many students using data services.

Study of the possibility of using transmission in the lte system on a selected railway line for the purpose of running railway traffic

The railway and the Rail Traffic Control Systems installed on it in Poland have recently experienced rapid technologi-cal development. This is undoubtedly due to the funds that Poland receives from the European Union for the moderni-zation of railway infrastructure. The development of modern railway infrastructure means not only stations, modern rolling stock, but also safe and reliable train control systems based on the latest telecommunications and information technologies. For a longer time, radio communication based on the GSM-R (GSM for Railways) standard is being introduced on PKP. For this purpose, dedicated infrastructure is being built in order to use this technology for railway traffic. This is associated with huge investment costs. Since the beginning of its existence, research has been conducted worldwide on the use of LTE (Long Term Evolution) technology for conducting railway traffic. For economic and technological reasons, it is necessary to study other possibilities of using modern telecommunications infrastructure not yet dedicated to railway tasks in these open networks. The article will present research on the use of open radio communication network based on LTE standard for rail traffic and passenger comfort. It will discuss the research method and selected results of measurements made on railway line no. 4. The choice of this railway line was dictated by two factors. The first one resulted from the maximum train speed, the second one is the variety of rolling stock used on this line (compartmental and non-compartmental wagons). The part of research concerning collection of measurement material was performed within the framework of completed research work PBS3/A6/29/2015. As a result of conducted in-depth literature analysis as well as performed measurements and calculations, it allowed to develop a model and software for simulating system operation in real conditions. This system allows to send railway telegrams on appropriate safety level defined in standardization documents. The research proved the possibility of using an open system in the LTE standard for the transmission of signals for railway traffic control and passengers while maintaining an appropriate level of safety. The only limitations which were indicated by the tests are improper radio interface coverage of railway lines. Appropriate planning of radio coverage of railway areas by radio communi-cation operators (so far ignored) with proper cooperation of infrastructure manager can lead to launching efficient communication system without necessity to build specialized infrastructure for railway.

Social Distancing and Isolation Management Using Machine-to-Machine Technologies to Prevent Pandemics

Social distancing and self-isolation management are crucial preventive measures that can save millions of lives during challenging pandemics of diseases such as the Spanish flu, swine flu, and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This study describes the comprehensive and effective implementation of the Industrial Internet of Things and machine-to-machine technologies for social distancing and smart self-isolation management. These technologies can help prevent outbreaks of any disease that can disperse widely and develop into a pandemic. Initially, a smart wristband is proposed that incorporates Bluetooth beacon technology to facilitate the tracing and tracking of Bluetooth Low Energy beacon packets for smart contact tracing. Second, the connectivity of the device with Android or iOS applications using long-term evolution technology is realized to achieve mobility. Finally, mathematical formulations are proposed to measure the distance between coordinates in order to detect geo-fencing violations. These formulations are specifically designed for the virtual circular and polygonal boundaries used to restrict suspected or infected persons from trespassing in predetermined areas, e.g., at home, in a hospital, or in an isolation ward. The proposed framework outperforms existing solutions, since it is implemented on a wider scale, provides a range of functionalities, and is cost-effective.

Performance Analysis of IEC 61850 Messages in LTE Communication for Reactive Power Management in Microgrids

Reactive power management in microgrids with high penetration of distributed renewable energy sources (DRESs) is challenging. The intermittent generation of DRES makes the power management cumbersome. Generally, Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) devices such as Distribution Static Compensator (DSTATCOM) are employed for reactive power compensation in microgrids. However, for effective results in microgrids, coordinated operation between DSTATCOM and Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) is required. In this paper, IEC 61850 communication is proposed for realizing coordinated operation between microgrid controller (MGCC), DSTATCOM and DERs. In microgrids, there may be large number of DERs dispersed over a large area. Hence, the underlying communication network technology for IEC 61850 communication must be highly scalable with wide range. Recently developed communication technology Long Term Evolution (LTE) is a promising solution since it offers high data rates, reliability, scalability and longer range. In this paper, the developed IEC 61850 based reactive power management system is tested with the LTE technology and the performance evaluation tests have been performed. Firstly, IEC 61850 messages have been mapped on LTE stack to enable their transmission. Then, simulations over a network emulator have been performed to evaluate the performance of IEC 61850 communication message exchanges over LTE network in terms of End to End (ETE) delays.

Estimation of Electromagnetic Compatibility Between DVB-T/DVB-T2 and 4G/5G in the 700 MHz Band for Co-Channel Case

Abstract The 694–790 MHz band (700 MHz) known also as the second digital dividend was allocated to the mobile radiocommunication service on a primary basis in Region 1 and identified to International Mobile Telecommunications by the World Radiocommunication Conference 2012 (WRC-12). The designation of mobile service in Europe and other countries of Region 1 in 700 MHz band was obtained after the World Radiocommunication Conference 2015 (WRC-15). Administrations of Region 1 will be able to plan and use these frequencies for mobile networks, including IMT. The goal of this study is to estimate the electromagnetic compatibility of Digital Video Broadcasting – Terrestrial (DVB-T/DVB-T2) and LTE (Long Term Evolution) technology operating both in 700 MHz band. The study assumes frequency division duplex (FDD) channel arrangement of 703–733 MHz (for uplink) and of 758–788 MHz (for downlink). The model contains two parts: a DVB-T/DVB-T2 system and LTE mobile broadband network. Co-channel scenario is considered in this paper, and possible impact of DVB-T/DVB-T2 on LTE base stations (receivers) is also investigated. The Monte Carlo simulations within SEAMCAT software and the Minimum Coupling Loss (MCL) method are used for interference investigation. The coordination trigger field strength value predetermined by GE06 Agreement is also used in this study. The Monte Carlo method presents more relaxed electromagnetic compatibility scenario in comparison with the MCL method. For SEAMCAT simulations, ITU-R P.1546-5 radio propagation model is used. The obtained results present the required minimum separation distance between DVB-T/DVB-T2 and LTE networks in the 694–790 MHz in order to provide the necessary performance of LTE mobile network.

Reinforcement Learning for Efficient and Fair Coexistence Between LTE-LAA and Wi-Fi

Long-Term Evolution (LTE) over unlicensed spectrum extends LTE technology to the spacious unlicensed spectrum with readily available bandwidth. The provided capacity surge makes it one of the most high-profile technologies to meet the explosive growth of mobile traffic demand. Among its different variants, Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) is considered as a promising global solution attributed to its mandatory listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure. Nevertheless, although LBT effectively maintains transmission fairness between LTE and other unlicensed systems (e.g., Wi-Fi), the current LAA protocol specified in 3GPP Release 13 is far from perfect to achieve harmony coexistence. To this end, in this paper, we first develop an analytical model to evaluate the throughput performance of Category 4 (Cat 4) algorithm agreed in 3GPP release 13. Subject to the system fairness constraint, the aggregate throughput of LTE-LAA and Wi-Fi networks is maximized based on a semi branch and bound algorithm. To make the complex optimization tractable, reinforcement learning techniques are introduced to intelligently tune the contention window size for both LTE-LAA and Wi-Fi nodes. Specifically, a cooperative learning algorithm is developed assuming that the information between different systems is exchangeable. A non-cooperative version is subsequently developed to remove the previous assumption for better practicability. Extensive simulations are conducted to demonstrate the performance of the proposed learning algorithms in contrast to the analytical upper bound under various conditions. It is shown that both proposed learning algorithms can significantly improve the total throughput performance while satisfying the fairness constraints. Particularly, the proposed cooperative learning algorithm can closely approach the analytical bound.

A Survey on Radio Resource Allocation for V2X Communication

Thanks to the deployment of new techniques to support high data rate, high reliability, and QoS provision, Long-Term Evolution (LTE) can be applied for diverse applications. Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) is one of the evolving applications for LTE technology to improve traffic safety, to minimize congestion, and to ensure comfortable driving which requires stringent reliability and latency requirements. As mentioned in the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), LTE-based Device-to-Device (D2D) communication is an enabler for V2X services to meet these requirements. Therefore, radio resource management (RRM) is important to efficiently allocate resources to V2X communications. In this paper, we present the V2X communications, their requirements and services, the V2X-based LTE-D2D communication modes, and the existing resource allocation algorithms for V2X communications. Moreover, we classify the existing resource allocation algorithms proposed in the literature and we compare them according to selected criteria.

Reliability Evaluation for LTE Based CBTC Train Ground Communication Systems

Nowadays, most communication based train control systems (CBTC) use Wireless Local Networks (WLAN) technology for information transmission. However, because of the high running speed of the train in urban rail transit, WLAN technology cannot fully satisfy the information transmission under the condition of train operation at a high speed. Long term evolution (LTE) technology has a high transmission speed, which can better meet the real-time requirements of train and ground information transmission. Therefore, LTE technology has become an emphasis on the research of communication technology in today’s urban rail transit. Although there is a lot of research on the application of LTE technology in urban rail transit, there is little research on the reliability of LTE based train ground communication systems using experimental data. In this paper, the reliability of train ground communication is firstly defined. Then the train ground communication environment was established in the laboratory, and the performance parameters of train ground communication based on LTE technology were obtained in the test. Finally, the reliability is calculated and analyzed according to the experimental results, and a storage method of train data in actual operation is proposed, which can be used to analyze the reliability of train information transmission. The results show that the reliability of train ground communication based on LTE technology meets CBTC requirements.

ANALISIS COVERAGE AREA LONG TERM EVOLUTION UNTUK KAWASAN DENPASAR MENGGUNAKAN METODE DRIVE TEST CLUSTER

Long Term Evolution (LTE) is the 4th generation of cellular telecommunications technology. According to the standard, LTE provides uplink speeds of up to 50 Mbps and downlink speeds of up to 100 Mbps. In the Denpasar area is a region that has a high level of data package usage, especially LTE technology, which is an average of 83,790,262 Gbits per day, because this area is an area with a fairly dense population. The method that is currently widely used to determine the quality of a network is the Test Drive method. In this study, the author will take a sample of RSRP values for distances of 100 - 400 m in BTS L_Bundaranrenon_PL, BTS L_Akaba_PL and BTS L_Myamin_CR owned by PT. Indosat. In the results of the study, by comparing the RSRP value of the simulation results using the Atoll Software with the RSRP value from the Test Drive obtained a correction factor value, which will then be added to the simulation to get a RSRP value closer to the simulation using the Atoll Software with the Test Drive results. Correction factor value obtained after adding attenuation to the simulation for housing conditions the maximum margin value is -4.99 dBm, while for the open area condition the maximum margin value is -4.22 dBm.

Perfomansi Parameter Carrier to Noise Interference Ratio (C/N+I) terhadap Penggunaan Metode Physical Cell Identitiy (PCI) Teknologi 4G LTE 1800 MHz

Long Term Evolution (LTE) is a fourth generation technology (4G) developed by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). LTE is able to provide downlink speeds of up to 100 Mbps and uplink of 50 Mbps. Interference is a signal whose presence in telecommunications networks is undesirable, has a disturbing nature and can reduce the performance of telecommunications networks including 4G LTE technology In this study, physical cell identity (PCI) method was used to improve carrier performance to noise interference ratio which resulted in an increase in the value of 5.08 dB to 5.14 dB with a difference of 0.06 dB