Underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) emerge as an enabling technology for the monitoring of vast areas of aquatic environments. This technology will pave the way for future large-scale applications of ocean monitoring, which will help to change ...

Connected vehicles allow to update the software (SW) running on their integrated electronic control units (ECUs) over-the-air. Such updates are complex procedures that involve several steps, such as the authentication with a remote device, the secure ...

Our research investigates the concept of interference prediction as an unprecedented approach for interference management and medium access in wireless networks. This paper is a first step in this direction: it proposes and evaluates a simple ...

Distance estimation and proximity classification techniques are essential for numerous IoT applications and in providing efficient services in smart cities. Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is designed for IoT devices, and its received signal strength ...

Vehicular CrowdSensing (VCS) is an emerging solution designed to remotely collect data from smart vehicles. It enables a dynamic and large-scale phenomena monitoring just by exploring the variety of technologies which have been embedded in modern cars. ...

Exploiting predicted channel information and designing energy efficient content delivery protocols has started to draw attention, which is referred to as predictive, anticipatory, or context-aware resource allocation. In this paper, we investigate how ...

Distributed reputation systems can be used to foster cooperation between nodes in decentralized and self-managed systems due to the nonexistence of a central entity. In this paper, a Robust and Distributed Reputation System for Delay-Tolerant Networks (...

In this work we propose, implement, and evaluate Group Regularity Model (GRM), a novel mobility model that accounts for the role of group meetings regularity in human mobility. We show that existing mobility models for humans do not capture the ...

In wireless sensor networks, a serial processing algorithm browses nodes one by one and can perform different tasks such as: creating a schedule among nodes, querying or gathering data from nodes, supplying nodes with data, etc. Apart from the fact that ...

Underwater networks are used for monitoring water resources and underwater environments. Thus, it is important that the underwater sensor nodes cover the largest region possible, during the largest amount of time. This paper presents a method to perform ...

The SImple Synchronization Protocol (SISP) has been designed for tiny sensors to offer a wireless synchronization service to the network. SISP is completely distributed with a flat architecture. Nodes broadcast a SYNC message periodically that contains ...

Conducting in-field performance analysis for wireless carrier coverage and capacity evaluation is extremely costly, in terms of equipment, manpower, and time. Hence, there is a growing number of opportunities that exist for crowdsourcing via smart ...

With the advance of fifth generation (5G) networks, network density needs to grow significantly in order to meet the required capacity demands. A massive deployment of small cells may lead to a high cost for providing fiber connectivity to each node. ...

In this paper, we present INDIGO, an interest-driven data dissemination framework that enables to predict the performance of data dissemination. INDIGO computes a tight upper bound of data dissemination time under (i) heterogeneous mobility patterns of ...

Ensuring cellular coverage is an important and costly concern for carriers due to the expense of in-field experimentation (i.e., drive testing). With the ubiquity of smartphones, apps, and social media, there has been an explosion of crowdsourcing to ...

The recent growth of markets for smart homes and the Internet of Things (IoT) create a significant demand in wireless access capacity. Consequently, much of current research has focused on efficient utilization of RF (Radio Frequency) spectrum. In this ...

Efficient resource allocation in enterprise wireless local area networks(WLAN) has become more paramount with the shift of traffic toward WLANs and increasing share of the video traffic. Unfortunately, current practise of client-driven association to ...

Densification through small cells and caching in base stations have been proposed to deal with the increasing demand for Internet content and the related overload on the cellular infrastructure. However, these solutions are expensive to install and ...

In this paper, we analyze flow level performance of mobile users in 4G/pre-5G cellular networks such as LTE and LTE-A. To this end, we develop a two-levels model that provides users' performance in a cell and end-to-end performance in the network. At a ...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used as data collectors for Wireless Sensors Networks (WSN) on the ground. Most current research proposes optimizations for the itinerary creation of a single UAV. Our work, however, proposes a distributed ...