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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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    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 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 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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    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 ...

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    AI-Empowered Software-Defined WLANs 

    Bayhan, Suzan; Coronado, Estefanía; Riggio, Roberto; Thomas, Abin (2021-05-03)

    The complexity of wireless and mobile networks is growing at an unprecedented pace. This trend is set to make current network control and management techniques based on analytical models and simulations impractical, ...

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    CoAP Congestion Control for the Internet of Things 

    Betzler, August; Gómez, Carles; Demirkol, Ilker; Paradells, Josep (2016-07-01)

    CoAP is a lightweight RESTful application layer protocol devised for the IoT. Operating on top of UDP, CoAP must handle congestion control by itself. The core CoAP specification defines a basic congestion control mechanism, ...

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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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    Connected OFCity: Technology Innovations for a Smart City Project 

    Tucker, Rod; Ruffini, Marco; Valcarenghi, Luca; Campelo, Divanilson R.; Simeonidou, Dimitra; Du, Liang; Marinescu, Maria-Cristina; Middleton, Catherine; Yin, Shuang; Forde, Tim; Bourg, Kevin; Dai, Eugene; Harstead, Ed; Chanclou, Philippe; Roberts, Hal; Jungnickel, Volker; Yadav, Rajesh; Vetter, Peter; Khotimsky, Denis A. (2017-02-01)

    Around the world, municipalities have been making substantial investments into broadband access infrastructure to accelerate the build-out of an urban phenomenon that has become known as a smart or connected city. At the ...

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    Considerations, challenges and opportunities when developing data-driven models for process manufacturing systems 

    Escrig, Josep; Fischer, Oliver J.; Gomes, Rachel L.; Porcu, Laura; Watson, Nicholas (2020-09-02)

    The increasing availability of data, due to the adoption of low-cost industrial internet of things technologies, coupled with increasing processing power from cloud computing, is fuelling increase use of data-driven models ...

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    Creating and broadcasting video-based multi-platform experiences 

    Llobera, Joan; Núñez, Juan Antonio; Fernández, Sergi (2017-01-01)

    The majority of TV consumers now watch TV programs in a multi-display environment [1]. Second screens –most often smartphones - are generally used to check information not directly related to the events in the TV content being ...

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    Culture 4 All: Accessibility-Enabled Cultural Experiences through Immersive VR360 content 

    Montagud, Mario (2020-01-02)

    The use of Virtual Reality (VR) technologies and, in particular of VR360 content, can provide great benefits in the society. This particularly applies to the culture and heritage sectors, where venues, goods and events can ...

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    DevOps for network function virtualisation: An architectural approach 

    Karl, Holger; Dräxler, Sevil; Peuster, Manuel; Galis, Alex; Bredel, Michael; Ramos, Aurora; Martrat, Josep; Siddiqui, Shuaib; Tavernier, Wouter; Xilouris, George (2016-07-25)

    The Service Programming and Orchestration for Virtualised Software Networks (SONATA) project targets both the flexible programmability of software networks and the optimisation of their deployments by means of integrating ...

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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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    End-user Traffic Policing for QoS Assurance in Polyservice RINA Networks 

    Leon, Sergio; Perelló, Jordi; Careglio, Davide; Grasa, Eduard; Tarzan, Miquel (2019-03-01)

    Looking at the ever-increasing amount of heterogeneous distributed applications supported on current data transport networks, it seems evident that best-effort packet delivery falls short to supply their actual needs. ...