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Broadband Wireless Networking in the Era of Big Data

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Conference

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

New Orleans, Louisiana

Publication Date

June 26, 2016

Start Date

June 26, 2016

End Date

June 29, 2016

ISBN

978-0-692-68565-5

ISSN

2153-5965

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Division Poster Session

Tagged Division

Engineering Technology

Page Count

13

DOI

10.18260/p.26397

Permanent URL

https://peer.asee.org/26397

Download Count

643

Paper Authors

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Tamer Omar East Carolina University

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Tamer Omar is an Assistant professor with the department of Technology systems at East Carolina University. Dr. Omar earned his Ph.D. from the Electrical Engineering department at Iowa State University, USA and his MBA with emphasis on MIS from the Arab Academy for Science and Technology, Egypt and his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Ain Shams University, Egypt. Dr. Omar research interests include wireless networks architecture, resources allocation in wireless networks, heterogeneous networks, self-organized networks, big data implementation and analysis, RDBMS and decision support systems. Dr. Omar has 6 years of experience in academia and more than 10 years of industrial experience in different ICT positions.

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Sirena A. Hardy East Carolina University

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Sirena Hardy thrives on the ever-changing world of information technology and the various ways technology has advanced our society. She has acquired over 10 years of information technology experience in the areas of software consulting and implementation; software training and application support. She gained valuable insight and knowledge during her time traveling around the country providing software training as well as assisting various colleges with the implementation of an enterprise resource planning system. Currently she is providing human resource management system software training to the public school districts of North Carolina and assisting with the statewide implementation of a new applicant tracking solution. She holds a MS in Information Science from North Carolina Central University and is currently pursuing a MS in Networking Technology at East Carolina University.

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Abstract

Organizations accumulate huge amounts of data from various systems but more often than not the data is stored but not organized or analyzed by the organizations. When certain characteristics define this data such as volume refers to a large quantity of data received and stored; velocity refers to a high speed of receiving data from different data streams; variety involves the ever changing data formats from new services, and new data types that are being captured; and finally that this data is valuable. Any data characterized by the aforementioned characteristics is articulated as big data and the systems managing such data is referred to as Big Data Systems (BDSs). Mobile service providers (MSPs) in their efforts to provide more efficient heterogeneous networks (HetNets) deals daily with data characterized by the same features. The successful implementation of a BDS involves having the required infrastructure in place to process the data. There are three key areas involved with a big data infrastructure which includes data acquisition, data organization and data analysis. Since big data involves higher velocity, volume and variety an organization must have the ability to capture this data. MSPs need to employ a system to actually extract and analyze network utilization big data to determine if it brings value to them and their customers. This work discusses the design, implementation and utilization aspects of a Hadoop system that can help MSPs to delve deep into their big data stores to analyze the potential of adding value to the organization. A Hadoop system would allow an entity to organize and process their big data. A system architecture for the system will be proposed together with the recommendations of analytics frame work. The BDS architecture together with the analytics frame work aims at helping the MSPs in forecasting the network traffic. The results of the traffic big data analytics and the network load forecasting can be used to adjust different network operating parameters. This adjustments can definitely enhance the HetNet performance. The proposed big data architecture and the analytics frame work produced from this study will be used as the decision support system component in an educational and research pilot project that aims at introducing the role of big data analytics in guiding the self-healing process used in self-organized networks.

Omar, T., & Hardy, S. A. (2016, June), Broadband Wireless Networking in the Era of Big Data Paper presented at 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana. 10.18260/p.26397

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