CHEERBOT

The objective of this chapter is to discuss the authors' interaction and involvement with technology and bots, opening a whole new and wide scope of possibilities while letting bots comfort us. The prevalence of bots and automation is increasing by every passing day – Cortana, Siri have been here for a long time and have now been overtaken by Alexa and other home automation systems that provide a two-way dialogue conversations. This chapter explores the possibilities of creating bots that can cheer us up when we are sad. Analyzing the semantics of our sentences and analyzing the pitch of our voice to identify our emotional state, and then providing an n-way dialogue conversation, relevant to the then existing context, instead of the mundane two-way dialogue conversation is the lucid content of this chapter. Summing it up, this chapter examines the possibility of creating bots that can serve as an emotional support to us humans.

Intelligent Tracking and Positioning of Targets Using Passive Sensing Systems

Target localization and tracking has always been a hot topic in all eras of communication studies. Conventional system used radars for the purpose of locating and/or tracking an object using the classical methods of signal processing. Radars are generally classified as active and passive, where the former uses both transmitter and receivers simultaneously to perform the localization task. On the other hand, passive radars use existing illuminators of opportunity such as wi-fi or GSM signals to perform the aforementioned tasks. Although they perform detection using classical correlation methods and CFAR, recently machine learning has been used in various application of passive sensing to elevate the system performance. The latest developed models for intelligent RF passive sensing system for both outdoor and indoor scenarios are discussed in this chapter, which will give insight to the readers about their designing.

Adaptive Principal Component Analysis-Based Outliers Detection Through Neighborhood Voting in Wireless Sensor Networks

This chapter introduces statistical learning methods and findings of a group decision-making algorithm in internet of things (IoT) and edge computing environments. The discussed methodology locally detects outliers in an on-line and adaptive mode. It is driven by three perspectives—opinion, confidence, and independence—and exploits the incremental principal component analysis using the power method for eigenvector and eigenvalue estimation and Knuth and Welford's online algorithms for variance estimation. The methodology is implemented and evaluated over real contextual data in a wireless network of environmental sensors from where appropriate conclusions are drawn about the capabilities and limitations of the proposed solution in IoT environments.

Machine Learning-Based Subjective Quality Estimation for Video Streaming Over Wireless Networks

Video streaming services top the internet traffic surging forward a competitive environment to impart best quality of experience (QoE) to the users. The standard codecs utilized in video transmission systems eliminate the spatiotemporal redundancies in order to decrease the bandwidth requirement. This may adversely affect the perceptual quality of videos. To rate a video quality both subjective and objective parameters can be used. So, it is essential to construct frameworks which will measure integrity of video just like humans. This chapter focuses on application of machine learning to evaluate the QoE without requiring human efforts with higher accuracy of 86% and 91% employing the linear and support vector regression respectively. Machine learning model is developed to forecast the subjective quality of H.264 videos obtained after streaming through wireless networks from the subjective scores.

Guaranteeing User Rates With Reinforcement Learning in 5G Radio Access Networks

The user experience constitutes an important quality metric when delivering high-definition video services in wireless networks. Failing to provide these services within requested data rates, the user perceived quality is strongly degraded. On the radio interface, the packet scheduler is the key entity designed to satisfy the users' data rates requirements. In this chapter, a novel scheduler is proposed to guarantee the bit rate requirements for different types of services. However, the existing scheduling schemes satisfy the user rate requirements only at some extent because of their inflexibility to adapt for a variety of traffic and network conditions. In this sense, the authors propose an innovative framework able to select each time the most appropriate scheduling scheme. This framework makes use of reinforcement learning and neural network approximations to learn over time the scheduler type to be applied on each momentary state. The simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed techniques for a variety of data rates' requirements and network conditions.

Machine Learning for Internet of Things

Fast advancements in equipment, programming, and correspondence advances have permitted the rise of internet-associated tangible gadgets that give perception and information estimation from the physical world. It is assessed that the aggregate number of internet-associated gadgets being utilized will be in the vicinity of 25 and 50 billion. As the numbers develop and advances turn out to be more develop, the volume of information distributed will increment. Web-associated gadgets innovation, alluded to as internet of things (IoT), keeps on broadening the present internet by giving network and cooperation between the physical and digital universes. Notwithstanding expanded volume, the IoT produces big data described by speed as far as time and area reliance, with an assortment of numerous modalities and changing information quality. Keen handling and investigation of this big data is the way to creating shrewd IoT applications. This chapter evaluates the distinctive machine learning techniques that deal with the difficulties in IoT information.

Overview of Machine Learning Approaches for Wireless Communication

Machine learning is one of the most popular research areas, and it is commonly used in wireless communications and networks. Security and fast communication are among of the key requirements for next generation wireless networks. Machine learning techniques are getting more important day-by-day since the types, amount, and structure of data is continuously changing. Recent developments in smart phones and other devices like drones, wearable devices, machines with sensors need reliable communication within internet of things (IoT) systems. For this purpose, artificial intelligence can increase the security and reliability and manage the data that is generated by the wireless systems. In this chapter, the authors investigate several machine learning techniques for wireless communications including deep learning, which represents a branch of artificial neural networks.

Review

Cognitive radio technology (CRNs) will be the fundamental driving force behind the next generation (5G) mobile communication systems as it provides the optimal solution for the problem of spectrum scarcity via dynamic spectrum usage. The CRNs, however, pose several key challenges such as network management, spectrum allocation, and access, energy efficiency, interference, cost, spectrum sensing, security, and quality of service (QoS). In this chapter, the authors undertake a comprehensive analysis of 30 peer-reviewed scientific publications collated from 2017 to 2018 April that examine cognitive radio networks to identify practical solutions proposed to overcome critical challenges in this field. Nine distinct challenges were considered: network management, spectrum allocation, and access, energy efficiency, interference, cost, spectrum sensing, security, and QoS. The analysis demonstrates that the majority of research work related to CRN focuses on approaches to improve network management and, specifically, optimization of networks.

The Role and Applications of Machine Learning in Future Self-Organizing Cellular Networks

In this chapter, a brief overview of the role and applications of machine learning (ML) algorithms in future wireless cellular networks is presented, more specifically, in the context of self-organizing networks (SONs). SON is a promising and innovative concept, in which future networks are expected to analyze and use historical data in order to improve and adapt themselves to the network conditions. For this to be possible, however, algorithms that are capable of extracting patterns from data and learn from previous actions are necessary. This chapter highlights the utilization and possible applications of ML algorithms in future cellular networks. A brief introduction of ML and SON is presented, followed by an analysis of current state of the art solutions involving ML in SON. Lastly, guidelines on the utilization of intelligent algorithms in SON and future research trends in the area are highlighted and conclusions are drawn.

Machine Learning in Wireless Communication

As the circumstances are changing, mankind has turned out to be more inclined to snappy and speedier correspondence and access to information. The correspondence happens in numerous structures (e.g., presently, this correspondence is all the more a virtual substance than a physical one). So as to keep up fast correspondence, the coming age will depend on exceptionally tried and true, canny and self-learning/self-modifying correspondence organizers. In this context, this chapter reviews the most important machine learning techniques with the direct applicability in wireless ad-hoc systems. A guide of machine learning methods and their relevance is also provided. Different applications of ad-hoc wireless networks are discussed in terms of energy-aware communications, optimal node deployment and localization, resource allocation, and scheduling.