MSWIM

This paper presents an enhanced approach to the evaluation of Quality of Context (QoC) parameters in a ubiquitous Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) e-Health platform, supporting the care of people with special needs (elderly or with health problems) thus ...

Although there is a strong need to deploy secure communications in home networks and for Machine-to-Machine (M2M) environment, to our knowledge the impact of authenticated encryption migration has not been evaluated yet. As the security performance ...

We describe a model-based approach to QoS management in a replica voting based data collection system. The voting among replicated data collection devices achieves trusted data delivery to the end-user in a hostile environment: such as data corruptions ...

Massive ad-hoc mobile networks with fluctuating topologies, as is expected for the Internet of Things (IoT), vehicular networks (VANETs), and others, allow for new solutions for the initial key exchange problem. Spraying data on multiple paths is a ...

Common anonymizers focus only on a part of the users' personal identification information, namely on the network addresses of the communicating parties. In the light of the entire communication stack, even if the network addresses are perfectly ...

Many important public services, such as security and public health, as well as the modern tactical military scenarios, rely on Service-oriented Architectures (SoAs) and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components to enable the quick development and ...

Provision and delivery of services with quality is a classic research problem, however the computational resources available in the network infrastructure of providers are, usually, managed with conventional Quality of Service (QoS) parameters. This ...

A case study that allows the interconnection of a Wimax structure supported on a MPLS Core is proposed, in order to take advantage of the benefits that offers MPLS working together with traffic engineering, virtual private networks and with the Diffserv ...

4G/5G EPC over Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) complemented with Software Defined Networking (SDN) framework is envisioned to be a novel paradigm of network architecture that supports a variety of access technologies and solves growth challenges ...

High-quality simulation tools are crucial to evaluate the energy efficiency of applications and protocols for wireless sensor networks in the most realistic way. Sensor node emulators like Avrora are well-suited for homogeneous networks but can not cope ...

For rapid deployment and low cost installation, a wired electric power delivery network should be supported by a wireless information communication network, which is called a wireless smart grid in this paper. In a wireless smart grid, every time when ...

Energy consumption has become a hot topic in computer and communication technologies pinpointing the need to carefully analyse system efficiency. The energy consumption of a system is determined by the usage patterns of system components and complex ...

Smartphones have become ubiquitous in recent years and offer many useful services to their users, such as notifications about incoming calls and messages, or news updates in real-time. These notifications however do not consider the current user's and ...

As the number of wireless devices grows, the increasing demand for the shared radio frequency (RF) spectrum becomes a critical problem. Unlike wired communications in which, theoretically, more fibers can be used to accommodate the increasing bandwidth ...

In this paper, we propose a mathematical model for determining the exact value of the reliability of Mobile Ad hoc (MANET) and Wireless Sensor (WSN) Networks which are considered in this research as a collection of Imperfect Stochastic Networks (ISN). ...

RPL is an open routing protocol standardized by the ROLL group of IETF for constrained IP smart objects. It is one of the emergent protocols dedicated for Low Power and Lossy Networks (LLNs). Unfortunately, RPL suffers from significant packet loss due ...

The Virtual Beacon-Time Division Multiple Access (VB-TDMA) communication protocol has been proposed in [12] for a growing class of applications which require GPS tracking of autonomous mobile entities in the outdoors, and the long-term continuous ...

To ensure the best multimedia service quality in order to well address users' expectations, a new concept named Quality of Experience (QoE) has appeared. Two methods can be used to evaluate the user satisfaction, a subjective one and an objective one. ...

Cryptographic protocols for confidentiality are oblivious to the unique challenges and advantages that wireless communication presents, mainly due to the open and public medium. We design a protocol at the wireless-specific physical and link layers and ...

This paper addresses the general issue of securely transmitting captured images within constrained networks, as those of Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSN)s. In particular, it focuses on handling transmission errors due either to unreliable ...

Security is a crucial problem for Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs), and secure routing is a prerequisite for network security. Secure routing averts lots of network attacks. In this paper, a secure routing scheme called Single Trip Detection Mechanism (...

Security systems using brain signals or Electroencephalography (EEG), is an emerging field of research. Brain signal characteristics such as chaotic nature and uniqueness, make it an appropriate information source to be used in security systems. In this ...

We present a demo of Quality of Service Management for CloudMAC, which combines SDN with NFV for processing WLAN MAC layer management frames in the Cloud. With CloudMAC, enterprise WLANs can be managed in the cloud which enables simple support for ...