MOBICOM

The advent of mobility networks brought to the surface the need to understand how mobile entities behave, specially considering how the interactions among them are affected. With the arrival of wireless and mobile networks such as 5G, the ...

In emerging 5G wireless systems, Mobile Social Networks (MSN) will play an important role for providing data services and offloading data traffic from cellular networks. MSNs are vulnerable to various security attacks because of the ways users move and ...

Population aging is a considerable challenge for a global society. Indeed, it raises several concerns and gives more or fewer alarmist projections of social-economic problems, that it could engender. Technological solutions to address the issue of aging ...

Currently, we live in highly connected environments in which we consume large amounts of data, such as contextual information, and produce even larger amounts of data. In this never-ending cycle, the generated data is taken to other applications, ...

With the increased adoption of Mobile CrowdSensing platforms in urban environments, the mobility of participating self-motivated crowds already roaming in the field can be coordinated to assist in completing spatio-temporal sensing tasks. In this work, ...

Key location identification in cities is central in human mobility investigation as well as for societal problem comprehension. In this context, we propose a methodology to quantify the power of point-of-interests (POIs) in their vicinity, in terms of ...

The time-of-flight based ranging mechanism defined in 802.11-2016 offers a range of parameters too rich to be implemented with similar pattern among vendors, unless further guidance is formulated on what parameter sets are reasonable. We examine 802.11-...

This is a study of the feasibility of learning the hop count distribution of a mobile ad hoc network using in-network data. The nodes maintain a histogram of the hop count from the source of all packets received and share the histograms with one ...

Wireless body area networks became recently a vast field of investigation. A large amount of research in this field is dedicated to the evaluation of various communication protocols, e.g., broadcast or convergecast, against human body mobility. Most of ...

The coordination framework presented in this paper targets the overall supervision and E2E configuration of 5G testbeds. Features provided by the framework cover service deployment, control, management, monitoring, analytics and security in 5G testbeds ...

New applications in the field of radio networks require a high concentration of micro-machines (micro-robots, sensors/actuators) in a small space. Those devices are characterized by a high volatility and limited computing, storage and energy ...

Thanks to technological advances in information and communications, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) (aka drones) technology has become one of the most important service delivery inventions these days. Equipped with sensors and cameras, these ...

Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) is used to extend the computing capability of mobile devices in terms of calculation, storage and energy. Offloading technologies are extensively utilized as the enabler for resource provisioning to achieve energy ...

IEEE 802.11ax utilizes frame aggregation and compressed block acknowledgements to reduce the MAC overhead and to increase the goodput. We analyze IEEE 802.11ax frame aggregation in error-prone environments and propose to adaptively limit the MPDU size. ...

In 4G networks, the emergence of machine communications such as connected vehicles increases the high demand of uplink transmissions, thus, degrading the quality of service per user equipment. Enforcing quality-of-service in such cellular network is ...