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    5G Infrastructures Supporting End-User and Operational Services: The 5G-XHaul Architectural Perspective 

    Anastasopoulos, Markos; Bartelt, Jens; Berberana, Ignacio; Camps Mur, Daniel; Demirkol, Ilker; Eiselt, Michael; Fehske, Albrecht; Flegkas, Paris; Grass, Eckhard; Grieger, Michael; Gutierrez, Jesús; Korakis, Thanasis; Lyberopoulos, George; Pateromichelakis, Emmanouil; Simeonidou, Dimitra; Syrivelis, Dimitris; Theodoropoulou, Elina; Tzanakaki, Ana; Wei, Qing (2016-05-01)

    We propose an optical-wireless 5G infrastructure offering converged fronthauling/backhauling functions to support both operational and end-user cloud services. A layered architectural structure required to efficiently ...

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    5G Non-Public Networks: Standardization, Architectures and Challenges 

    Camps, Daniel; Ordoñez, José Antonio; Muñoz Luengo, Pablo; Ameigeiras, Pablo; Adamuz-Hinojosa, Oscar; Prados-Garzon, Jonathan (2021-11-10)

    Fifth Generation (5G) is here to accelerate the digitization of economies and society, andopen up innovation opportunities for verticals. A myriad of 5G-enabled use cases has been identifiedacross disparate sectors like ...

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    5G transport network requirements for the next generation fronthaul interface 

    Bartelt, Jens; Vucic, Nikola; Camps Mur, Daniel; Garcia Villegas, Eduard; Demirkol, Ilker; Fehske, Albrecht; Grieger, Michael; Tzanakaki, Ana; Gutierrez, Jesús; Grass, Eckhard; Lyberopoulos, George; Fettweis, Gerhard (2017-12-01)

    To meet the requirements of 5G mobile networks, several radio access technologies, such as millimeter wave communications and massive MIMO, are being proposed. In addition, cloud radio access network (C-RAN) architectures ...

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    5G-CLARITY: 5G-Advanced Private Networks Integrating 5GNR, Wi-Fi and LiFi 

    Camps, Daniel; Cañellas, Ferran; Fernández, Adriana (2022-01-10)

    The future of the manufacturing industry highlydepends on digital systems that transform existing productionand monitoring systems into autonomous systems fulfilling strin-gent requirements in terms of availability, ...

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    5G-XHaul: a converged optical and wireless solution for 5G transport networks 

    Gutierrez, Jesús; Maletic, Nebojsa; Camps Mur, Daniel; Garcia Villegas, Eduard; Berberana, Ignacio; Anastasopoulos, Markos; Tzanakaki, Ana; Kalokidou, Vaia; Flegkas, Paris; Syrivelis, Dimitris; Korakis, Thanasis; Legg, Peter; Markovic, Dusan; Lyberopoulos, George; Bartelt, Jens; Chaudhary, Jay Kant; Grieger, Michael; Vucic, Nikola; Zou, Jim; Grass, Eckhard (2016-07-08)

    The common European Information and Communications Technology sector vision for 5G is that it should leverage on the strengths of both optical and wireless technologies. In the 5G context, a wide spectra of radio access ...

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    5G-XHaul: Enabling scalable virtualization for future 5G Transport Networks 

    Camps, Daniel; Flegkas, Paris; Gutierrez, Jesús; Syrivelis, Dimitris; Wei, Qing (2016-12)

    Network slicing is a major trend in the design of future 5G networks that will enable operators to effectively service multiple industry verticals with a single network infrastructure. Thus, network slicing will shape all ...

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    A Cost-Efficient 5G Non-Public Network Architectural Approach: Key Concepts and Enablers, Building Blocks and Potential Use Cases 

    Amor Cambeiro, Marta; Antanopoulos, Angelos; Capsalis, Nikolaos; Conceição, Luís; Giannopoulos, Anastasios; Gkonis, Panagiotis; Gonzalez-Diaz, Sergio; Karkazis, Panagiotis; Rigazzi, Giovanni; Sarakis, Lambros; Spantideas, Sotirios; Trakadas, Panagiotis (2021-08-19)

    The provision of high data rate services to mobile users combined with improved quality of experience (i.e., zero latency multimedia content) drives technological evolution towards the design and implementation of fifth ...

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    A Genetic Algorithm for VNF Provisioning in NFV-enabled Cloud/MEC RAN architectures 

    Ruiz, Lidia; J. Durán, Ramon; de Miguel, Ignacio; Sayyad Khodashenas, Pouria; Pedreno-Manresa, Jose-Juan; Merayo, Noemí; Aguado, Juan Carlos; Pavon-Marino, Pablo; Siddiqui, Shuaib; Mata, Javier; Fernández, Patricia; Lorenzo, Rubén M.; Avril, Evaristo J. (2018-12-13)

    5G technologies promise to bring new network and service capacities and are expected to introduce significant architectural and service deployment transformations. The Cloud-Radio Access Networks (C-RAN) architecture, ...

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    A Modern Architectural View Based upon Enhancements of the SESAME Innovative Approach 

    Chochliouros, Ioannis P.; Giannoulakis, Ioannis; Sfakianakis, Evangelos; Kostopoulos, Alexandros; Kourtis, Akis; Spiliopoulou, Anastasia S.; Belesioti, Maria; Sayyad Khodashenas, Pouria; Fajardo, Jose Oscar; Dardamanis, Athanassios; García-Lloreda, Javier; Kafetzakis, Emmanouil; Pérez-Romero, Jordi (2017-07-17)

    The SESAME 5G-PPP project targets innovations in three fundamental 5G areas such as the “placement” of network intelligence and applications in the network edge through NFV and cloud computing, the substantial evolution ...

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    A new content format for Immersive experiences 

    Llobera, Joan (2016-06-11)

    The arrival of head-mounted displays (HMDs) to the consumer market requires a novel content format that is, first, adapted to the specificities of immersive displays and, second, that takes into account the current reality ...

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    A P4-enabled RINA interior router for Software-Defined Data Centres 

    Bunch, Steve; Giménez, Sergio; Grasa, Eduard; Fernández, Carolina (2020-09-02)

    The lack of high-performance RINA implementations to date makes it hard to experiment with RINA as an underlay networking fabric solution for different types of networks, and to assess RINA's benefits in practice on scenarios ...

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    A pipeline for multiparty volumetric video conferencing: transmission of point clouds over low latency DASH 

    Cernigliaro, Gianluca; Martos, Marc (2020-05-27)

    The advent of affordable 3D capture and display hardware is making volumetric videoconferencing feasible. This technology increases the immersion of the participants, breaking the flat restriction of 2D screens, by allowing ...

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    A Proxy Design to Leverage the Interconnection of CoAP Wireless Sensor Networks with Web Applications 

    Ludovici, Alessandro; Calveras, Anna (2015-01-09)

    In this paper, we present the design of a Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) proxy able to interconnect Web applications based on Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and WebSocket with CoAP based Wireless Sensor Networks. ...

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    A recursive orchestration and control framework for large-scale, federated SDN experiments: the FELIX architecture and use cases 

    Fernández, Carolina; Bermudo, Carlos; Carrozzo, Gino; Monno, Roberto; Belter, Bartosz; Pentikousis, Kostas; Toseef, Umar; Kudoh, Tomohiro; Takefusa, Atsuko; Haga, Jason; Puype, Bart; Tanaka, Jin (2015-06-19)

    Programmable networks are a substantial part of current R&D on future internet (FI) in Europe and worldwide, with considerable impact generated by large-scale test bed infrastructures. In such test beds, researchers validate ...

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    A reliable asynchronous protocol for VLC communications based on the rolling shutter effect 

    Ferrandiz-Lahuerta, Júlia; Camps Mur, Daniel; Paradells, Josep (2015-12-01)

    In this paper we introduce a novel reliable asynchronous protocol that allows to establish a VLC link between a LED luminary and an off-the- shelf smartphone. Our protocol and decoding algorithms benefit from the access ...

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    A Software Development Kit to exploit RINA programmability 

    Maffione, Vincenzo; Salvestrini, Francesco; Grasa, Eduard; Bergesio, Leonardo; Tarzan, Miquel (2016-05-25)

    The Recursive InterNetwork Architecture (RINA) is a general architecture for all forms of computer networking, based on a single type of programmable layer that recurs as many times as required by the network designer. The ...

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    A tool to design interactive characters based on embodied cognition 

    Llobera, Joan; Boulic, Ronan (2017-09-01)

    Creating interactive characters is one of the most challenging tasks of videogame design. In order to facilitate such an endeavour, we introduce a decisional and behaviour synthesis architecture integrated in the game ...

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    A use case of shared 5G backhaul segment planning in an urban area 

    Bueno Delgado, Maria Victoria; Garrich Alabarce, Miquel; Khodashenas, Pouria Sayyad; Moreno-Muro, Francisco Javier; Pavon-Marino, Pablo; Romero-Gazquez, Jose-Luis (2019-09-19)

    This work presents a case study for the network planning of a 5G backhaul in a dense urban area. The study is fed by estimated population density data and real geographical layout coming from a Spanish city (Cartagena, ...

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    Accessibility in 360° video players 

    Hughes, Chris. J.; Montagud, Mario (2020-10-22)

    Accessibility is a key requirement for any multimedia tool and application. With the current trend towards immersive experiences, such as Virtual Reality (VR) and 360o video, it becomes key that these environments are ...

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    ACCESSIBLE SCENIC ARTS AND VIRTUAL REALITY: A PILOT STUDY WITH AGED PEOPLE ABOUT USER PREFERENCES WHEN READING SUBTITLES IN IMMERSIVE ENVIRONMENTS 

    Oncins, Estel·la; Montagud, Mario; Bernabeu, Rocío; Arnáiz, Verónica (2019-09-27)

    The technological advancements in virtual reality and other forms of immersive content such as 360º video, are triggering the concept MonTI xx (20xx: xxx-xxx). ISSN: 1889-4178 of liveness in the scenic arts, and deserve ...