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In this work, we propose a mobility management optimization framework for the networks employing full-frequency reuse. The mobility management issue is considered in the context of two main self-organizing networks (SON) functionalities, i.e mobility load balancing (MLB) and mobility robustness optimization (MRO) as a user-to-BS assigment problem. A central optimization method, which aims to maximize...
There has been renewed attention given to High Speed Railways (HSR) in the US, in terms of adapting more speed, reliability, increasing passenger capacity and providing passenger centric services. Any future Train-To-Ground (T2G) communication system therefore has to embrace reliable signaling and control-specific needs of HSR, while also catering towards the high performance networking demands of...
Although there are several tools available to simulate a Wireless sensor networks (WSN), few of them allow on-line simulation as WebShawn does. The tool can be considered as a complement of the existing experimental platforms allowing focus on implementation, collection, and analysis of data, in a relatively simple manner. The adopted software architecture is based on the remote simulation and visualization...
Industrial IoT networks are typically used for monitoring systems and supporting control loops, as well as for movement detection systems, process control and factory automation. To this end, data generated by monitoring IoT devices are collected, elaborated and sent to controllers and actuators. The routing of data from IoT sensors to actuators is an integral part of any large-scale industrial network...
Connectivity in vehicular networks is continuously changing due to high mobility of vehicles, causing rapid changes in the network topology. This has a direct negative impact on the throughput and packet transmission delay. Many algorithms and approaches have been proposed to address this problem. However, most of them are not practical due to their dependence on a centralized infrastructure, which...
Poor air quality in urban areas is becoming an important problem that needs to be addressed. This paper presents the system architecture of project Urb@nEcoLife for compilation of environmental data using low-cost data sensors. Although there are several proposals dealing with sensor networks, most of them focus on solving partial problems. Urb@nEcoLife is a comprehensive proposal that develops a...
After the occurrence of a disaster one of the main needs for the rescue teams and volunteer helpers is a functional communication infrastructure even during the first hours. The disaster recovery system (DRS) originally presented by us in a previous work [1] is based on an IEEE 802.11s wireless mesh network which is set up by non damaged legacy, mesh capable and battery powered devices still available...
In this paper, we present an NDN-based architecture for the dissemination of roadside information to cars. Our focus is on flooding events which are often caused by severe weather which also impacts the communication infrastructure. We compare the performance of different message forwarding strategies in VANETs (Vehicular Adhoc Networks) through simulation. In addition, we analyze how our approach...
Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communications encapsulate significant challenges as a result of the vast number of wireless technologies deployed, nodes mobility and large applications range. One of the greatest challenges is to provide adequate QoS guarantees even in this demanding environment. State-of-the-art solutions for QoS provisioning over wireless links are based on cross-layering packet schedulers...
The aggregation of multiple carriers and even heterogeneous links is a well established method to boost data rates in wireless networks. At the same time, Network Coding has been proven as an efficient and robust mechanism to distribute content in mesh networks or cloud storages. In this paper, we introduce with ScalaNC a new method of heterogeneous link aggregation, which requires no changes in the...
Cancer related fatigue is a chronic disease that may persist up to 10 years after treatment of cancer has been finished successfully and is one of the most prevalent problems of cancer survivors. Cancer related fatigue is a complex symptom that is not sufficiently understood and difficult to remedy. Patients do not necessarily follow a treatment plan with regular in-office follow-ups. As a consequence,...
Human activity recognition through posture identification is increasingly used for medical, surveillance and entertainment applications. This paper proposes a ubiquitous solution to activity recognition through the use of tri-axial accelerometers of smartphones. Use of smartphones for activity recognition poses new challenges such as variation in hardware configuration and usage behavior like where...
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of mortality worldwide and impose a tremendous burden on socio-economic costs. At present, prevention strategies based on personalized lifestyle interventions are considered the best way to contain the epidemics of these diseases. In this view, availability of innovative technological systems able to assist people in self-monitoring and self-coaching is...
Air pollution is an important issue due to its direct impact on human health. To cope with this problem, in urban areas a “monitor and react” approach, based on measurements provided use of static monitoring stations, is commonly adopted introducing constrains to the amount of areas that can be monitored within the city. With the rise of the Internet of Things paradigm, new air monitoring models based...
LoRa-based (Long Range Communication based) localization systems make use of RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator) to locate an object properly in an outdoor environment for IoT (Internet of Things) applications in smart environment and urban networking. The accuracy of localization is highly degraded, however, by noisy environments (e.g., electronic interference, blocking). To address this issue,...
We propose a signal-channel, adaptive threshold selection technique for binary mask construction, namely APHONIC, (AdaPtive tHreshOlding for NoIse Cancellation) for smart mobile environments. Using this mask, we introduce two noise cancellation techniques that perform robustly in the presence of real-world interfering signals that are typically encountered by mobile users: a violin busker, a subway...
Channel state information (CSI) is essential for efficient power and spectrum allocation policies. In cognitive radio (CR) channels, although perfect CSI of the direct link (between the secondary transmitter and the secondary receiver) is a reasonable assumption at the secondary transmitter (ST), however, perfect knowledge of its interfering links to the primary receivers (PRs) is not. Power allocation...
Currently, 4G mobile communication systems are supported by the 3GPP standard. In view of the significant increase in mobile data traffic, it is necessary to characterize it to improve the performance of current wireless networks. Indeed, video transmission and video streaming are fundamental assets for the upcoming smart cities and urban environments. Due to the high costs of deploying a real LTE...
The increasing occurrence of large scale disasters calls out for a collaborative approach to crisis management, where multiple and heterogeneous organizations of first responders are deployed within the damaged area and must interact with each others in order to cooperate in the damage assessment and recovery actions. Such an approach requires a suitable communication platform to allow these organizations...
Information-Centric Networking (ICN) introduces a paradigm shift from a host centric communication model for Future Internet architectures. It supports the retrieval of a particular content regardless of the physical location of the content. Emergency network in a disaster scenario or disruptive network presents a significant challenge to the ICN deployment. In this paper, we present a Content dIstribution...
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