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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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    Evaluation of Dynamic Sensitivity Control Algorithm for IEEE802.11ax 

    Afaqui, Shahwaiz; Garcia Villegas, Eduard; Lopez-Aguilera, Elena; Smith, Graham; Camps Mur, Daniel (2015-03-01)

    The explosive growth in the usage of IEEE 802.11 network has resulted in dense deployments in diverse environments. Most recently, the IEEE working group has triggered the IEEE 802.11ax project, which aims to amend the ...

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    Enabling always on service discovery: Wifi neighbor awareness networking 

    Camps Mur, Daniel; Garcia Villegas, Eduard; Lopez-Aguilera, Elena; Loureiro, Paulo; Lambert, Paul; Raissinia, Ali (2015-04-01)

    There is untapped potential in the Wi-Fi radios embedded in our smartphone and tablet devices. In this article we introduce the Wi-Fi Neighbor Awareness Networking technology being standardized in the WiFi Alliance under ...

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    MH-REACH-Mote: Supporting Multi-hop Passive Radio Wake-up for Wireless Sensor Network 

    Chen, Li; Warner, Jeremy; Heinzelman, Wendi; Demirkol, Ilker (2015-06-08)

    A passive wake-up radio in a wireless sensor network (WSN) has the advantage of increasing network lifetime by using a wake-up radio receiver (WuRx) to eliminate unnecessary idle listening. A sensor node equipped with a ...

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    Laying the groundwork for field trials of RINA in the EU 

    Staessens, Dimitri; Ponce de Leon, Miguel; López, Diego; Grasa, Eduard (2015-06-15)

    Some of the challenges faced by network service providers stem from early design and implementation decisions made at the infancy of data communications. Due to its groundbreaking potential, the Internet exploded from a ...

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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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    Modelling the NFV forwarding graph for an optimal network service deployment 

    Ferrer, Jordi; Hesselbach, Xavier; Zotkiewicz, Mateusz; Szostak, Maciej; Botero, Juan-Felipe (2015-07-01)

    The NFV is focused at virtualizing network functions such as gateways, path computing devices, resource allocation mechanisms, proxies, firewalls and transcoders, traditionally carried out by specialized hardware devices, ...

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    Green Routing in Software-Defined Data Center Networks Based on OpenNaaS 

    Zhu, Hao; Aznar, Jose; de Laat, Cees; Grosso, Paola (2015-07-01)

    Today’s data center networks such as Fat-tree and BCube, are over-provisioned for multi-path routing; and they suffer from inefficient power usage when traffic is not heavy. Green routing technologies are effective approaches ...

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    Software-defined open architecture for front- and backhaul in 5G Mobile Networks 

    Jungnickel, Volker; Habel, Kai; Parker, Michael Charles; Walker, Stuart D.; Bock, Carlos; Ferrer, Jordi; Marques, Victor; Levi, David (2015-07-01)

    New software-defined open network concepts are proposed in this paper to enable an efficient implementation of front- and backhaul solutions for future 5G mobile networks. Main requirements for 5G front- and backhaul are ...

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    Dynamically Reconfigurable Optical-Wireless Backhaul 

    Barret, M.; Camps Mur, Daniel; Fehske, Albrecht; Grass, Eckhard; Grobe, Karl; Gutierrez, Jesús; Lyberopoulos, George; McConnell, R.; McConnell, I.; Theodoropoulou, Elina; Paradells, Josep; Vucic, Nikola; Shulz, E.; Bartelt, Jens; Fettweis, Gerhard; Berberana, Ignacio; Markovic, Dusan; Simic, D.; Petrovic, D.; Anastasopoulos, Markos; Tzanakaki, Ana; Simeonidou, Dimitra; Beach, M.; Nix, A.; Syrivelis, Dimitris; Korakis, Thanasis (2015-07-01)

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    On the benefits of RINA over programmable optical networks for dynamic and smart resource management 

    Leon, Sergio; Perelló, Jordi; Grasa, Eduard; Careglio, Davide; Spadaro, Salvatore (2015-07-01)

    In this paper, we describe the basics of the Recursive InterNetwork Architecture (RINA) and its advantages as a packet transport technology over programmable optical networks. In particular, its seamless integration over ...

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    Implementation of the FELIX SDN Experimental Facility 

    Fernández, Carolina; Bermudo, Carlos; Carrozzo, Gino; Monno, Roberto; Belter, Bartosz; Kudoh, Tomohiro; Takefusa, Atsuko; Haga, Jason; Pentikousis, Kostas; Toseef, Umar; Tanaka, Jin (2015-09)

    The development of test environments as close as possible to the real world scenarios is becoming a fundamental requirement in designing innovative network applications. This environment must be fully configurable and ...

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    Urban Automation Networks: Current and Emerging Solutions for Sensed Data Collection and Actuation in Smart Cities 

    Gómez, Carles; Paradells, Josep (2015-09-10)

    Urban Automation Networks (UANs) are being deployed worldwide in order to enable Smart City applications. Given the crucial role of UANs, as well as their diversity, it is critically important to assess their properties ...

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    CoCoA+: An advanced congestion control mechanism for CoAP 

    Betzler, August; Gómez, Carles; Demirkol, Ilker; Paradells, Josep (2015-10-01)

    The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) has been designed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Due to the limited radio channel capacities and hardware resources of such ...

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    T-NOVA: Network Functions as-a-Service over Virtualised Infrastructures 

    Xilouris, George; Kourtis, Akis; McGrath, Michael; Riccobene, Vincenzo; Petralia, Giuseppe; Markakis, Evangelos; Palis, Evangelos; Georgious, Alexiou; Gardikis, Georgios; Ferrer, Jordi; Ramos, Aurora; Bonnet, José (2015-11-01)

    The EU funded FP7 project T-NOVA, with the specific goal of accelerating the evolution of NFV, proposes an open architecture to provide Virtual Network Functions as a Service (VNFaaS), together with a dynamic, and flexible ...

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    Large-scale performance evaluation of the IETF Internet of Things protocol suite for smart city solutions 

    Betzler, August; Demirkol, Ilker; Gómez, Carles; Isern, Javier; Paradells, Josep (2015-11-02)

    The Internet of Things (IoT) intends to interconnect massive amount of heterogeneous, smart devices, with the goal of interweaving the virtual world with the physical world. Smart Cities are typical IoT application domains, ...

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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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    CYCLONE Unified Deployment and Management of Federated, Multi-Cloud Applications 

    Aznar, Jose; Demchenko, Yuri; Ilke Zilci, Begüm; Slawik, Mathias (2015-12-01)

    Various Cloud layers have to work in concert in order to manage and deploy complex multi-cloud applications, executing sophisticated workflows for Cloud resource deployment, activation, adjustment, interaction, and monitoring. ...

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    TRESCIMO: European Union and South African Smart City Contextual Dimensions 

    Coetzee, Louis; Corici, Ancuta; Magedanz, Thomas; Steinke, Ronald; Catalan, Marisa; Paradells, Josep; Barros, Maria; Gavras, Anastasius (2015-12-01)

    Cities increasingly face challenges related to pollution, efficient use of resources (e.g. water, energy) and ensuring a good quality of life for its citizens. Solutions built on existing and emerging technologies such as ...

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    Self-X in SESAME 

    Abubakar, Babangida; Betzler, August; Goratti, Leonardo; Khodashenas, Pouria Sayyad; Nasr, Karim M.; Pérez-Romero, Jordi; Ruiz, Cristina; Sallent, Oriol; Vahid, Seiamak; Whitehead, Alan (2016)

    This paper addresses the use of Self-X functions to support Small Cell as a Service (SCaaS) provisioning in multi-tenant scenarios, as one of the main components of the SESAME project. After presenting the scenarios, ...