{"title":"Bridging the last mile in a smart home on application level","authors":"Christoph Soellner, U. Baumgarten","doi":"10.1109/SACONET.2013.6654566","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SACONET.2013.6654566","url":null,"abstract":"Driven by the Smart Grid concept, stakeholders have searched for inexpensive ways of enabling household devices for reliable remote control. Research in this area focuses on wired or wireless information transport where progress has been made in energy-efficiency, reduction of bandwidth usage and bringing standard Internet protocols to tiny embedded devices in order to create the Internet of Things. However, we have yet to see a viable application layer protocol that not only runs on resource constrained embedded hardware and satisfies demands by device vendors, but also remains compatible with established Internet standards. We propose a concept on application level to enable Smart Devices for remote control and management that remains independent from and compatible with common message trans-port protocols, thus bridging the Last Mile in a Smart Home on application level.","PeriodicalId":187635,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Smart Communications in Network Technologies (SaCoNeT)","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127129124","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":"Enhanced ISS-TCA for fast tag collection in active RFID systems","authors":"Wonju Yoon","doi":"10.1109/SACONET.2013.6654568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SACONET.2013.6654568","url":null,"abstract":"The identified slot scan-based tag collection algorithm (ISS-TCA), which was proposed in a previous study to improve the tag collection (TC) performance in active RFID systems, has the drawback that it is optimized in situations where all the tags store a fixed amount of data. So this algorithm does not perform well with tags having a variable amount of data. This paper proposes an enhanced ISS-TCA to solve the drawback of the previous ISS-TCA. The enhanced ISS-TCA first collects the slot size information required for the data response from each tag via an ISS phase, and then performs the TC phase with the dynamic slot size utilizing the slot size information. The simulation results for performance evaluation showed that the enhanced ISS-TCA leads to a good performance improvement of TC in all situations compared with the standard TCA in ISO/IEC 18000-7 and the previous ISS-TCA.","PeriodicalId":187635,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Smart Communications in Network Technologies (SaCoNeT)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124965617","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}
Alexandros Apostolidis, Dimitris Siouras, N. Alonistioti
{"title":"An outage compensation algorithm for WLANs","authors":"Alexandros Apostolidis, Dimitris Siouras, N. Alonistioti","doi":"10.1109/SACONET.2013.6654592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SACONET.2013.6654592","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we propose an algorithm to address the emergency case of an access point (AP) failure by adjusting a radio parameter of the neighboring APs. The goal is to minimize the coverage gap while at the same time: a) restrain imposed interference as much as possible and b) provide adequate load fairness among the APs. We assume an 802.11 infrastructure network where initially every mobile terminal (MT) can connect to at least one AP even when all APs are transmitting at the minimal power level. The algorithm uses a fuzzy inference system with the following inputs: a) the compensating AP's load and b) a metric of the overlapping area that each compensating AP creates with the neighboring APs. The output is the transmission power increase of the compensating APs.","PeriodicalId":187635,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Smart Communications in Network Technologies (SaCoNeT)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125522358","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":"Specification of a collision-free CSMA MAC protocol for wireless LANs: The CANlike protocol","authors":"G. Juanole, X. Nguyen, G. Mouney","doi":"10.1109/SACONET.2013.6654580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SACONET.2013.6654580","url":null,"abstract":"Collision-free Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols based on Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) and priorities associated to the frames are interesting solutions in considering real-time traffic in a wireless context. We have already presented such a protocol using priorities represented by the BlackBurst technique. The goal of this paper is, at first and mainly, to specify another such protocol, named CANlike, which is an adaptation of the wired CAN bus protocol to the wireless context, and then to show its interest for the implementation of process control applications through a wireless network.","PeriodicalId":187635,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Smart Communications in Network Technologies (SaCoNeT)","volume":"01 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130944001","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":"Estimating the effect of context on QoE of audiovisual services: Laboratory vs. public places","authors":"T. Maki, M. Varela, J. Laulajainen","doi":"10.1109/SACONET.2013.6654556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SACONET.2013.6654556","url":null,"abstract":"Multimedia service providers and operators need tools that can estimate the quality of the services delivered to their end-customers. To this end, a variety of quality prediction models has been developed. The models are typically built and trained based on data acquired from user studies conducted in laboratories with precisely defined conditions. While laboratory originated data is accurate and reliable, the performance of Quality of Experience (QoE) models could be possibly further improved by taking into account the real context of use. Working towards that goal, in this paper, we compare results of a laboratory audiovisual quality subjective study and two smaller scale user studies conducted in public place. We also discuss our approach of enhancing the prediction accuracy with context-specific bias functions.","PeriodicalId":187635,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Smart Communications in Network Technologies (SaCoNeT)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128693437","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}
Roi Arapoglou, K. Chatzikokolakis, G. Katsikas, N. Alonistioti
{"title":"A dynamic governance framework for efficient orchestration of hetnet empowerment mechanisms","authors":"Roi Arapoglou, K. Chatzikokolakis, G. Katsikas, N. Alonistioti","doi":"10.1109/SACONET.2013.6654593","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SACONET.2013.6654593","url":null,"abstract":"Now days autonomic network management systems are a significant part of Future Internet vision. These systems may be considered as Network Empowerment Mechanisms (NEMs) in an Heterogeneous, Multi-tier Network Environment. Their main purpose is to monitor network manageable entities, perform decision functions, and start possible healing actions. The NEMs deployment and interworking is proven to be a challenging task, as they increase network complexity in Future Internet paradigm. The decisions and the enforced actions of different NEMs may be conflicting for the underlying network environment thus increasing the complexity of the Network Management. The Unified Management Framework (UMF), solves the aforementioned problems by enabling the efficient orchestration of NEM entities. Following the UMF paradigm, in this work we provide the implementation of the Governance functionality based on an ontology implementation. Furthermore, building on the outcomes of the ontology, we implement the conflict detection and resolution functionality, aiming at handling conflicts in policies introduced by the network operator. The afore-described approach enables the dynamic introduction of newly deployed NEMs into the Governance lifecycle, through the use of OWL language, under specific time constraints.","PeriodicalId":187635,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Smart Communications in Network Technologies (SaCoNeT)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127290707","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":"On the measurement of image quality perception using frontal EEG analysis","authors":"J. Perez, É. Deléchelle","doi":"10.1109/SACONET.2013.6654581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SACONET.2013.6654581","url":null,"abstract":"The question of objective measurement of quality of images remains an opened issue. In this paper, we conduced a study concerning the direct measurement of perception of image quality using frontal electroencephalography (EEG). In our work, subjects viewed a series of images for a short predefined period of time while their brain activity was registered using a unique frontal probe EEG instrumentation. The images was organised in 3 classes : sharp, blurry or noisy. Then, by formalizing the task of classification as a supervised learning problem, we have been able correctly identify, on a single-trial basis, the type of images visualized by the user using only their EEG signal. In the context of networked content distributors, this kind of online measurement becomes critical as the objective is to maximize the so-called quality of experience (QoE) of their users while rationalizing their infrastructure utilization.","PeriodicalId":187635,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Smart Communications in Network Technologies (SaCoNeT)","volume":"65 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129669356","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}
W. Ramírez, X. Masip-Bruin, M. Yannuzzi, R. Serral-Gracià, A. Martínez
{"title":"An efficient protection strategy using multiple network coding","authors":"W. Ramírez, X. Masip-Bruin, M. Yannuzzi, R. Serral-Gracià, A. Martínez","doi":"10.1109/SACONET.2013.6654559","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SACONET.2013.6654559","url":null,"abstract":"Network coding has been recently proposed as a proactive network protection scheme. Its main objective is to improve the resilience of wired networks against link failures in a proactive manner, while simultaneously providing network resource savings (IP bandwidth, optical wavelengths) compared to traditional protection schemes. Warned by the potential network coding might bring as well as by the high chances this strategy might be widely deployed on failure-sensitive network scenarios, this paper is positioned with the aim of: i) exploring the advantages of network coding protection (NCP) versus the network resources used for protection; ii) comparing NCP with traditional protection schemes, such as shared path protection; iii) exploring the tradeoff between the protection cost and the level of resilience provided by a NCP scheme, and; iv) exploring the benefits of coding a coded traffic, in other words, introducing multiple coding for protection. Several protection schemes are evaluated in different incremental network topologies. The obtained results show that network coding with a M+N strategy can significantly reduce the amount of network resources used for protection.","PeriodicalId":187635,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Smart Communications in Network Technologies (SaCoNeT)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131591031","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":"Touch by touch: Promoting cultural awareness with multitouch gaming","authors":"A. Popleteev, Rod McCall, A. Molnar, T. Avanesov","doi":"10.1109/SACONET.2013.6654595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SACONET.2013.6654595","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a work in progress focused on facilitation of cross-cultural awareness between citizens of two European cities. We aim to engage visitors of telecom museums in Athens and Luxembourg to learn more about both cities by means of collaborative games played on multitouch tables. We also explore how live video-to-video streaming influences players' behaviour and collaboration with remote players.","PeriodicalId":187635,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Smart Communications in Network Technologies (SaCoNeT)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114246632","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}
R. Serral-Gracià, X. Masip-Bruin, M. Yannuzzi, E. Marín-Tordera
{"title":"Methodology definition for reliable network experimentation","authors":"R. Serral-Gracià, X. Masip-Bruin, M. Yannuzzi, E. Marín-Tordera","doi":"10.1109/SACONET.2013.6654579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SACONET.2013.6654579","url":null,"abstract":"As researchers in the networking area keep adopting experimental network testing as a valid mechanism to develop, validate, and improve their research, it becomes more apparent that an overall framework supporting and assisting during the experimentation process is necessary. Particularly, this assistance is relevant in processes such as experiment preparation, or results validation. As a consequence, the goal, and thus the contribution, of this paper is twofold, on the one hand we propose a novel set of guidelines which establish the set of requirements any testbed for network experimentation should follow. On the other hand, as the other relevant contribution of this work, we propose a mechanism for generating meta-data information on the experiments that ease the publication of the obtained datasets. Finally, as a use-case, we present a particular implementation of this framework which we deploy in a real scenario to prove the capabilities of the proposed testing procedure.","PeriodicalId":187635,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Smart Communications in Network Technologies (SaCoNeT)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114586026","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}