MOBICOM

We present Select&Spray, a novel publish/subscribe communication architecture that extends end mobile user reachability in order to minimize their experienced disconnection times from core infrastructure. Within our architecture, we propose a Select&...

Opportunistic Routing (OR) is a new paradigm that has been investigated as a new way to improve the performance of multihop wireless networks by exploiting the broadcast nature of the wireless medium. In contrast to traditional routing, in OR an ordered ...

In opportunistic Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs), which are characterized by changing network topology, the time and location varying spectrum availability, there is a need of on-demand searching for a control traffic channel by cognitive radio (CR) ...

Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) use the "Store-Carry-then-Forward" approach to deliver the message to the destinations. It relies on the intermittent link that occurs when two nodes contact with each other due to mobility. In this paper, we propose a ...

We propose to demonstrate Direct Code Execution (DCE), a ns-3 simulation framework that enables reproducible network experiments using real Linux kernel space protocol stacks along with POSIX socket based protocol implementations. In addition to ...

Community-Lab is an open and distributed infrastructure that provides a testbed for researchers to carry out experiments within wireless community networks. Community networks are an emergent model of infrastructures built with off-the-shelf ...

The Opportunistic Networking Environment (ONE) Simulator is an extensible tool for evaluating protocols and mobility models for delay-tolerant networking. ONE allows easily plugging in mobility models, contact traces, routing modules, applications, and ...

Many modern mobile applications have to address the challenge of enabling communication and managing a very large amount of mobile nodes. Examples of those applications include fleet management, workforce coordination, Intelligent Transportation Systems,...

Correlated jamming, introduced in the 1980's as the optimal interference signal in information theory, aims to cancel the target victim signal in contrast to the more traditional jamming approach of adding noise-like interference. The recent surge of ...

The wide deployment of low-power and lossy networks (LLNs) connected to the Internet has raised many security concerns regarding the protection of data they handle and communicate. Such networks now face all sorts of security threats identified in ...

We investigate the problem of efficient wireless energy recharging in Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks (WRSNs). In such networks a special mobile entity (called the Mobile Charger) traverses the network and wirelessly replenishes the energy of ...

Resiliency is becoming one of the most important non functional properties of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), as their adoption is more and more hypothesized in critical application scenarios. Hence, assessing the resiliency of WSN applications, ...

Integration of algorithms and protocols from different layers will make possible the deployment of large-scale wireless sensor networks. The growing number of nodes that comprises within these networks requires a correct organization and an efficient ...

The aim of this work is to develop a routing protocol for wireless sensor networks (WSN) applications taking into account constraints such as network lifetime and energy consumption. We propose a robust hierarchical routing protocol using a dynamic ...

Tasks in a real-time computing system are commonly periodic. Each instance generated by the invocation of a periodic task has normally a deadline constraint by which it must complete its execution in all circumstances. However, faults may be present in ...

The prediction of mobility is among the most important problem that requires to be examined for the management of mobility in mobile computing systems. In this paper, we offer a new algorithm for predicting accurately the next reached broker of a mobile ...

Wireless networks have becomes one of the most important networks in peoples' lives, due to the convenience and the widespread use of wireless devices. One of the main problems of wireless networks is the unstable network performance, which is a ...

The concept of Smart Cities has recently attracted considerable attention. The basic idea about making a city as smart is to use communication technology to optimize a city's resource consumption. There are interesting research opportunities oriented to ...

The multi-frequency Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) receivers will greatly enhance the performance of satellite navigation. However, the capability of receiving signals from multiple frequencies will increase the receiver power consumption. ...

In this paper we propose a set of mobility metrics, which are employed in the generation of supervised classification learning methods through the decision tree algorithm, with the goal to recognize user movement patterns in mobile ad hoc networks. ...

An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is an aircraft without onboard human pilot, which motion can be remotely and / or autonomously controlled. Using multiple UAVs, i.e. a fleet, offers various advantages compared to the single UAV scenario, such as longer ...

We present a TCP mobility solution for the mobile Internet which enables seamless session end-point migration across multi-provider network environments. The solution can be applied by mobile devices to conduct energy-efficient network selection and ...

This paper presents a new scheme, LOad balancing with fast HAndoff Scheme (LOHAS), for IEEE 802.11 Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) that reduces handoff delay and at the same time achieves load balancing among Access Points (APs). The key idea of ...

Using clusters in MANETs is common in routing and content delivery situations. The increase use of smartphones able to peer-to-peer communication, justifies cluster algorithms adapted to this kind of devices use cases. In a tourist mobility scenario, ...