Ivan Zappia, P. Cianchi, Giulia Adembri, M. Gherardelli, D. Giuli, F. Paganelli
{"title":"SITMar project: An integrated platform for goods monitoring in multimodal transport","authors":"Ivan Zappia, P. Cianchi, Giulia Adembri, M. Gherardelli, D. Giuli, F. Paganelli","doi":"10.1109/EMTC.2014.6996627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMTC.2014.6996627","url":null,"abstract":"The SITMar project (Integrated System for Maritime Transport) is an applied research project in the maritime freight providing a set of innovative real-time services for maritime surveillance and goods monitoring. SITMar services are offered on an integrated platform. Specifically, in this paper the system architecture and services for monitoring and tracking of containerized goods during both terrestrial and maritime transport are described. Performance of this system was tested by means of a suitably implemented demonstrator.","PeriodicalId":178778,"journal":{"name":"2014 Euro Med Telco Conference (EMTC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126747305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Linear and non-linear montecarlo approximations of analog joint source-channel coding under generic probability distributions","authors":"F. Davoli, M. Mongelli","doi":"10.1109/EMTC.2014.6996642","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMTC.2014.6996642","url":null,"abstract":"A distributed estimation setting is considered, where a number of sensors transmit their observations of a physical phenomenon, described by one or more random variables, to a sink over noisy communication channels. The goal is to minimize a quadratic distortion measure (Minimum Mean Square Error - MMSE) under a global power constraint on the sensors' transmissions. Both linear MMSE encoders and decoders, parametrically optimized in encoders' gains, and non-linear parametric functional approximators (neural networks) are investigated and numerically compared, highlighting subtle differences in sensitivity and achievable performance.","PeriodicalId":178778,"journal":{"name":"2014 Euro Med Telco Conference (EMTC)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133907369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"QoS to QoE mapping model for wired/wireless video communication","authors":"F. Battisti, M. Carli, P. Paudyal","doi":"10.1109/EMTC.2014.6996648","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMTC.2014.6996648","url":null,"abstract":"Multimedia service providers have to deliver video content through bandwidth limited and error-prone networks with agreed level of perceived video quality to customers for specific applications. To this aim service providers must devise a strategy to monitor the perceived quality and automatically adapt it when necessary. Measuring perceived quality is challenging for service providers. So there is the need for a mapping model to predict perceived video quality from system related quality of service parameters. In this article performance comparison of widely used quality of service to quality of experience mapping models has been presented and optimal solution has been recommended for key quality of service parameters: jitter, delay, packet loss rate and throughput limitation. For this purpose the freely available video quality database ReTRiEVED has been used.","PeriodicalId":178778,"journal":{"name":"2014 Euro Med Telco Conference (EMTC)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123995193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The business requirements and technical fabric for the Smart City","authors":"Edward A. Smith, M. Ugolini, A. Neri","doi":"10.1109/EMTC.2014.6996653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMTC.2014.6996653","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we focus on Smart Cities, particularly revolution at the edges of the fabric, examining the objectives for developing a Smart City and the direct link between the business/requirements model and its delivery through services, applications, sensors and edge networks. We will provide an overview of how cities are developed and a view of how a Smart City is characterised. Whilst intelligent fabrics create the potential for a Smart City, it is the market that determines how the technology is exploited. We will consider what that market looks like and, in particular, who the stakeholders are, from both market research and academic perspectives. Our assessment of the Smart City's enabling fabrics will cover early applications and the current evolution of implementation in the UK and Italy.","PeriodicalId":178778,"journal":{"name":"2014 Euro Med Telco Conference (EMTC)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128034592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Andò, R. Pernice, L. Curcio, S. Stivala, S. Mangione, P. Gallo, M. Campanella, G. Garbo, A. Busacca
{"title":"Fading mitigation coding techniques for space to ground free space optical communications","authors":"A. Andò, R. Pernice, L. Curcio, S. Stivala, S. Mangione, P. Gallo, M. Campanella, G. Garbo, A. Busacca","doi":"10.1109/EMTC.2014.6996643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMTC.2014.6996643","url":null,"abstract":"In this manuscript, a Geostationary satellite-to-ground Free Space Optics (FSO) downlink channel model has been implemented, which is able to predict temporal irradiance fluctuations caused by scintillation at a wide range of turbulence conditions and for different values of the zenith angle. In order to mitigate fading events that occur in FSO communications, we have also tested the performance of three different families of Rateless Codes (Luby Transform, Raptor and RaptorQ) into our model and found that RaptorQ is the best candidate to mitigate errors in FSO links.","PeriodicalId":178778,"journal":{"name":"2014 Euro Med Telco Conference (EMTC)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127887018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Ciccarella, D. Roffinella, M. Vari, F. Vatalaro
{"title":"Performance improvement and network TCO reduction by optimal deployment of caching","authors":"G. Ciccarella, D. Roffinella, M. Vari, F. Vatalaro","doi":"10.1109/EMTC.2014.6996639","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMTC.2014.6996639","url":null,"abstract":"The growth of new advanced services over Internet, including HD and 4K unicast video, made possible by the development of fixed and mobile broadband and ultra-broadband access, in turn poses important requirements on the evolution of IP transport networks. Sustainability of the Internet ecosystem in the presence of increasing traffic volumes, changing traffic patterns and more demanding application requirements boost the transformation of network architectures. Quality of Experience (QoE) directly influences the number of accesses to video content and the time spent by users to view videos, thus impacting on Telcos and OTTs business models. In this paper we quantitatively evaluate, in terms of application throughput improvement and cost-effectiveness, the impact of content caching inside Telcos networks. We show that distribution of caches inside the IP network improves QoE and reduces network total cost of ownership (TCO).","PeriodicalId":178778,"journal":{"name":"2014 Euro Med Telco Conference (EMTC)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130725802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. S. Cacciapuoti, M. Caleffi, Francesco Marino, L. Paura
{"title":"Sensing-time optimization in cognitive radio enabling Smart Grid","authors":"A. S. Cacciapuoti, M. Caleffi, Francesco Marino, L. Paura","doi":"10.1109/EMTC.2014.6996657","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMTC.2014.6996657","url":null,"abstract":"The paper deals with the reduction of the channel outage in a smart grid scenario since it plays a crucial role on the control performance of the Demand/Response Management. A study on a two-way cognitive-based switching procedure is carried out and tools for the optimum sensing-time evaluation are provided. Such evaluation considers a cost function that takes into account both the sensing-accuracy improvement gained by increasing the sensing time and the transmission-capacity degradation induced by sensing-time increasing.","PeriodicalId":178778,"journal":{"name":"2014 Euro Med Telco Conference (EMTC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130874537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Internet of Things to the Virtual Continuum: An architectural view","authors":"R. Minerva","doi":"10.1109/EMTC.2014.6996633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMTC.2014.6996633","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims at introducing a set of requirements for large Internet of Things platforms. These platforms should enable the programming of many services comprising functions provided by a large number of sensors and intelligent resources. The paper aims at showing how virtualization and cognitive capabilities will play a fundamental role in order to enable the concept of the Virtual Continuum, i.e., the functional augmentation and entanglement of physical objects and virtualized ones. The Virtual Continuum makes possible the exploitation of new business models like servitization.","PeriodicalId":178778,"journal":{"name":"2014 Euro Med Telco Conference (EMTC)","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124698866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Load Balancing Algorithm against DDoS attacks in beyond 3G wireless networks","authors":"S. Zinno, G. D. Stasi, S. Avallone, G. Ventre","doi":"10.1109/EMTC.2014.6996647","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMTC.2014.6996647","url":null,"abstract":"A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack aims at exhausting the resources of a communication system. A large amount of requests is sent to the targeted system by malicious users: the overload compromises the correct working of the structure. If the attack is successful, the system stops working. The assault does not provide the hacker with any sensitive information; so it does not appear as dangerous as it really is. Nevertheless, the denial of service is a huge security risk for Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks. In order to avoid this kind of risk, we present a mechanism that relocates the resources requested by the users, both voice and data. It is able to transfer the overload from congested eNodeBs to eNodeBs with free capacities. The mechanism is a Load Balancing Algorithm, fully integrated in the architecture of LTE networks. We simulated the attack scenario through Network Simulator 3 (ns-3). If the proposed algorithm is active, in case of a DDoS attack, communication services are always available for users.","PeriodicalId":178778,"journal":{"name":"2014 Euro Med Telco Conference (EMTC)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132765589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Donadio, Giovanni B. Fioccola, R. Canonico, G. Ventre
{"title":"Network security for Hybrid Cloud","authors":"P. Donadio, Giovanni B. Fioccola, R. Canonico, G. Ventre","doi":"10.1109/EMTC.2014.6996640","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMTC.2014.6996640","url":null,"abstract":"Cloud computing has enabled elastic and transparent access to distributed services, without investing in new infrastructures. In the last few years, Cloud computing has grown from being a promising business concept to one of the fast growing segments of the IT industry. Despite of all the hype surrounding the Cloud, enterprise customers are still reluctant to deploy their business in the Cloud. Security is one of the major issues which reduces the growth of Cloud computing and complications with data privacy and data protection continue to plague the market. In this paper, we propose a solution for Hybrid Cloud security, focusing on a Virtual Intrusion Detection System (V-IDS). We present a new architecture that considers the basic principles of the Cloud computing, virtualization and GMPLS Control Plane and applies them to the intrusion detection systems, in order to protect Cloud networks characterized by constantly changing of the underlying infrastructure and physical topology. Based on the defined architecture, we have implemented a prototype of Cloud based IDS that validates our thesis. The prototype is realized though the integration of two open-source technologies: OpenStack and DRAGON (Dynamic Resource Allocation via GMPLS Optical Networks).","PeriodicalId":178778,"journal":{"name":"2014 Euro Med Telco Conference (EMTC)","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134532587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}