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Recent research on Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) technologies which provide the capability of serving massive low power devices simultaneously has been very attractive. The LoRaWAN standard is one of the most successful developments. Commercial pilots are seen in many countries around the world. However, the feasibility of large scale deployments, for example, for smart city applications need...
Security and privacy of mobile users is a theme of primary importance, given the widespread and growing use of connected smartphones, the great amount of personal data that can leak, and the lack of proper controlled environments in the current mobile scenario (for instance, mobile apps and their handling of permissions). In this paper we focus on a crucial part of this scenario: usage of mobile phone...
This paper presents a comparison study of different similarity metrics used for RSSI fingerprint based indoor localization. These metrics are used for nearest neighbor search which is a crucial step in fingerprint localization system. Including Euclidean distance, Manhattan distance and Gauss distance, the present study compares the localization error respect to a proposed parameter named “error density”...
In recent years, video streaming traffic has increased exponentially over the Internet. This can be observed through the emergence of various video on demand sites such as Netflix, Amazon movies and others. In parallel, IEEE 802.11 (WiFi) technology has been deployed extensively from home to public areas. Although significant research has been done to address issues on video streaming through WiFi...
The expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) and the evolution in communication technologies have enabled homes, cars even whole cities to be network connected. However, during an emergency incident, IoT devices have not been used to trigger emergency calls directly to healthcare providers mainly due to their constrained capabilities and lack of support session-oriented communications. Moreover, emergency...
Teledermatology offers the possibility of improving access to dermatologic care by using telecommunication technologies for connecting several medical centers and enabling to exchange information about skin conditions over a distance. This paper describes the main points of the implementation of a teledermatology project following the so-called smart region paradigm. A case study is presented to describe...
The problem of managing the scarce radio spectrum resource is addressed in this paper; based upon the Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) network. Emerging and innovative techniques such as spectrum virtualization and network federation are adopted to enable the sharing of spectrum amongst mobile operators. A novel entity known as the Virtual Spectrum Hypervisor (VS-Hypervisor)...
Recently, 5G systems started to explore the usage of mmWave bands both for access and backhaul. Cellular systems operating at such frequencies would achieve a significantly higher capacity than current systems due to the large frequency block available. Due to the propagation characteristics, highly directional mmWave links may frequently switch between Line-of-sight, Non Line-of-sight and outage...
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