Andrej Mihailovic

King's College London | KCL

Wireless access networks are ever-changing their setup, topologies and provisions of coverage. Forthcoming deployment trends include densification of cells and convergence of the ‘native IP’ with cellular access networks with more than best-effort expectations. Greater meshing in networks due to practical deployment requirements is inevitable and n...

Despite the massive increase in network capacities and devices capabilities, intra-domain TE problems have remained a challenge due to high traffic demand in dynamic network settings. In this paper, we fundamentally adopt and construct the use of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithm to improve end-to-end delay and maximum link utilisation (M...

The complexity of maritime traffic operations indicates an unprecedented necessity for joint introduction and exploitation of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, that take advantage of the vast amount of vessels' data, offered by disparate surveillance systems to face challenges at sea. This paper reviews the recent Big Data and AI technolog...

This paper outlines an example method and trial scenario phases for extending the existing tools for maritime surveillance across the maritime regions of Europe. There are continuous dedicated efforts throughout European collaborations for advancing the features of Common Information Sharing Environment (CISE), which is a European Union (EU) initia...

This study analyzes the effect of stablecoin adoption on key macroeconomic factors in Montenegro. The main explanation for the adoption of stablecoins is their one-to-one peg to various currencies and commodities. Previous studies have relied on the relationships among cryptocurrencies and thus could not disentangle the country-level macroeconomic...

This paper outlines an extensive analysis of the case of Montenegro’s maritime surveillance system becoming integrated within the European Common Information Sharing Environment (CISE). Threats to secure maritime borders across Europe are ever-present and regularly demand coordinated efforts between the member states to tackle and prevent them, e.g...

This paper outlines an extensive analysis of the case of Montenegro’s maritime surveillance system becoming integrated within the European Common Information Sharing Environment (CISE). Threats to secure maritime borders across Europe are ever-present and regularly demand coordinated efforts between the member states to tackle and prevent them, e.g...

Implementations of the rising EU maritime initiative, namely the Common Information Sharing Environment (CISE), involves network connectivity and data sharing processes among EU Member States agencies. These interactions occur at the national, regional and international levels with the principal purpose to increase maritime borders safety, security...

The Common Information Sharing Environment (CISE) is an ongoing cooperative development initiative that incrementally incorporates new participants and countries through integrations of facilities for European maritime surveillance. This paper outlines some key processes and technicalities required for becoming a part of the CISE, specifically for...

This paper presents a multipath routing solution combined with Quality-of-Service (QoS) in Software Defined Network (SDN) for providing a low-delay traffic solution for Tactile Internet network domain. After SDN controller has calculated the k-best end-to-end routing paths based on the available bandwidth and number of the hops in the path, the flo...

This paper presents exemplar cases of adjusting the operations and taskings of an existing maritime safety administration in the Adriatic towards the emerging technologies for enhanced patrolling in maritime surveillance. This work derives from ongoing COMPASS2020 project that aims to showcase the capabilities of unmanned systems (aerial, underwate...

This paper presents a foundation study of the routing support in scoped IP access networks towards early investigations and conclusions on provisioning the tactile traffic class in related networks. A specification for a type of traffic for tactile/haptic communications is derived and applied in the paper and tested in network scenarios alongside w...

The expected variable nature of future access network structures calls for network providers to adapt accordingly in order to facilitate loss free networks supported with the developing IP infrastructure. To this end, a routing optimization mechanism applicable to randomly shaped all-IP access networks must be developed. In this paper, Multi-Plane...

With the expected surge in the global IP traffic,service providers would need to adapt accordingly to operatedisruption and loss free networks supported with the developing IP infrastructure. With the disposal of the hierarchical networkstructure, radio access networks are moving towards a flat-IParchitecture and novel topological set-ups in the ba...

Over the past few years, many scientists have envisioned an Internet generation that will not only provide voice and data communications but can also support Haptic communications. This new Internet dimension can be beneficial for the society by facilitating the development of new technologies and applications that will improve our standards of liv...

Liberalising Deployment of Internet of Things Devices and Services in Large Scale Environments Andrej Mihailovic 1,2 � The Author(s) 2016. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com Abstract There is an ongoing enormous expansion of Internet of Things devices and services in everyday life, notably in novel large scale urban envi...

Proliferations and uses of Internet of Things (IoT) services are greatly underlined by purpose-based and autonomous compositions of IoT eco-systems. This trend is commonly encountered in large scale IoT environments such as Smart Cities. Consequently, expansion of IoT services affirms a specific property of their compositions, that is, verticality....

With the expected surge in the global IP traffic, service providers would need to adapt accordingly to operate disruption and loss free networks supported with the developing IP infrastructure. With the disposal of the hierarchical network structure, radio access networks are moving towards a flat-IP architecture and novel topological set-ups in th...

There has been a rapid rise in the IP traffic throughout the Internet which takes advantage of the already established widespread IP infrastructure. Different suggestions are being explored to facilitate the next-generation access networks via IP mechanisms, with a growing trend towards a flat-IP structure and novel topological set-ups in the backh...

This paper presents a study of a method termed, multi-plane routing, that maximizes path diversity in IP routing and is targeted for IP access networks (AN). The motivation for the work is in the specific shortcomings of the conventional intra-domain IP routing principles such as “shortest-path” and “best-effort” when applied in IP ANs. We generali...

Internet of Things deployments and systems that accompany their functioning, data provisions and actuations are undoubtedly marking the new era of opportunities present in the communication networks and the Internet. The technologies of Internet of Things are extremely diverse. At the moment, there are numerous types of small devices, communication...

Buying an off-the-shelf sensor or actuator device has become a common practice with individual developers or universities that are keen on exploring ways of flexibly building networks for increasing possibilities of use. Their objective might not be on a targeted single application or an integrated product, but by conducing trials, suitable develop...

In a wireless network environment comprising a mobile router serving a moving network, said mobile router for attaching to a packet-switched access network that uses a micro-mobility protocol and a Quality of Service (QoS) protocol to route packet data to and from said mobile router, wherein said mobile router has a QoS aggregate requirement genera...

This paper describes an Implementation Guide for an emerging standard for autonomic management &control of networks and services, namely the ETSI AFI GANA Reference Model for Autonomic Networking, Cognitive Networking and Self-Management (an emerging standard from ETSI). The implementation guide also takes into consideration the impact of emerging...

This standardization oriented paper describes the SDN (Software-Driven Networking) Enablers in the ETSI AFI GANA Reference Model for Autonomic Management & Control (an emerging standard from ETSI), and impact of Virtualization. This is because in this study we see that Autonomic Management & Control and SDN (Software-Driven Networking) share the sa...

A key challenge for the management systems of future networks is the reduction of human interventions in the fundamental management functions. These include mechanisms that render the networks capable to configure, optimize, heal and protect itself, but also handle the emerging complexity. Demands for the future internet networks mandate the rapid...

In this two-part paper we describe the ongoing standardization work on designing an autonomicity-enabled mesh architecture framework. This is work in progress being carried out by the AFI (Autonomic network engineering for the self-managing Future Internet) working group of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). In the first pa...

With the increasing interest in continuous media streaming applications such as audio and video, quality of service (QoS) is becoming more and more important. Providing QoS guarantees in packet access networks gives rise to several challenging issues. There are several aspects of QoS to be considered. For example, to support video communication hig...

In this two-part paper we describe the ongoing standardization work on designing an autonomicity-enabled mesh architecture framework. This is work in progress being carried out by the AFI (Autonomic network engineering for the selfmanaging Future Internet) working group of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). In this first pa...

The agent micro-mobility protocols, such as Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 and Proxy Mobile IPv6, have become leading contenders for providing micro-mobility support to mobile nodes (MNs). The presence of mobility agents (MAs) in these networks can lead to constrained routing and create areas of bottleneck around the MAs. When an MA is integrated in the...

It becomes more and more recognized that using IP as the underlying foundation for the next-generation of wireless networks makes strong economic sense. This is evident in installation and operation, and technical aspects as it takes advantage of the ubiquitous installed IP infrastructure. Because of that, a resilient, efficient and easy implementa...

A telecommunications system includes a mobile network having a plurality of portable communication devices, and a fixed network which includes a signaling agent, a plurality of directory agents, and a plurality of spaced apart attachment points to which the mobile network can attach. In use, each directory agent stores a routing table for routing d...

This paper presents the functionalities involved in enabling the use of compartments in wireless access networks for achieving capacity and coverage optimization. Compartments are defined as dynamic medium-term federations of collaborating elements for intelligent organizational purposes. The work presented in the paper uses compartments as a self-...

This paper describes development of cognitive self-managed networks according to the vision of the Future Internet networks being developed in the Self-NET project. The project develops and prototypes architecture and solutions for realising a vision on Internet evolution based on integration of cognition and autonomics in self-managed networks dem...

The paper discusses and describes several selected use-cases for autonomic/cognitive management purposes in the scope of the Future Internet (FI) evolution, as these have been identified upon the original context of the EU-funded Self-NET Project effort. The essential aim is to “delimit” new paradigms for the management of complex and heterogeneous...

The paper provides a study of situation awareness mechanisms in modern telecommunication networks on the essential basis of the actual Self-NET research Project effort. Since cognition has today become one of the key features of most systems, novel mechanisms for identification, comprehension and corresponding reaction to altering environmental con...

The potentially large population density and high handover rates of mobile users aboard a public transport vehicle underpin the need for robust and scalable quality-of-service (QoS) provisioning mechanisms designed for such environments. Traditional QoS approaches fall short of such criteria and have led to the proposal of a number of aggregation-b...

This paper describes aspects for developing cognitive functionalities in self-managed networks according to the vision of the Future Internet networks being developed in the Self-NET project. The project develops and prototypes architecture and solutions for realising a vision on Internet evolution based on integration of cognition and autonomics i...

The demand for resource-hungry applications whilst on the move is growing, and is being fuelled in particular by the increasing availability of high-quality multimedia services. To this end, micro-mobility protocols play an important role in providing seamless data delivery to terminals as they roam across different networks. However, such protocol...

Evolution towards the Future (Internet) networks necessitates inclusion of self-management capabilities in modern network infrastructures, for a satisfactory provision of related services and for preserving network performance. We have considered a specific targeted methodology, in the form of the generic cognitive cycle model, which includes three...

IntroductionHeterogeneous Radio Resource Management (HRRM) in the WWI System ArchitectureMobilityContext ProvisioningNetwork Management in the WWI System ArchitectureConclusions AcknowledgementsReferences

The scope of this paper is to introduce an innovati ve paradigm for cognitive self-managed elements of the Future Inter net. The present Internet model is based on clear separation of concerns between protocol layers, with intelligence moved to the edges, and with the existent protocol pool targeting user and control plane operations with less emph...

The network mobility reservation protocol was proposed to increase the scalability of QoS provision in moving networks. However, its scalability is undermined when sessions are bursty and short-lived. QoS aggregation addresses this by holding requests at the mobile router for a time before sending a single aggregated reservation to the access netwo...

The Project Authorization Request (PAR) for the IEEE P1900.4 Working Group (WG), under the IEEE Standards Coordinating Committee 41 (SCC41) was approved in December 2006, leading to this WG being officially launched in February 2007 [1]. The scope of this standard is to devise a functional architecture comprising building blocks to enable coordinat...

Many existing communication protocols fail to perform efficiently when groups of users move in unison and at high velocity. A classic example is the Mobile IP protocol, which, as it stands, leads to storms of binding updates at every IP handover, but is resolved by the NEMO basic support protocol. However, a problem of similar nature is also existe...

This paper discusses Mobility and Radio Resource Management in the context of the network reference model under development within the Wireless World Initiative (WWI). WWI is a collaboration of five large-scale Integrated Projects partially sponsored by the European Commission’s sixth framework program. These projects tackle different aspects of a...

Within the End-to-end Reconfigurability (E2R) project, system architecture development is an iterative process of devising system-level representation of the main reconfigurability aspects taking into account the high-level design vision and specific implications of technical realisations of reconfigurability at the solution level. Architecture dev...

Within the End-to-end Reconfigurability (E2R) project, system architecture development is an iterative process of devising system-level representation of the main reconfigurability aspects taking into account the high-level design vision and specific implications of technical realisations of reconfigurability at the solution level. Architecture dev...

This paper covers the entire process and methodology used to define a fully OMG UML [4] architecture conforming to the MDA [3] concepts and unifying all the aspects of an end-to-end reconfigurable system, starting from the scenarios identification, to the UML architecture model, through the capabilities, requirements, and functions and data identif...

The End-to-End Reconfigurability (E2R) research [1], aim at bringing the full benefits of the valuable diversity within the radio eco-space, composed of a wide range of systems such as cellular, wireless local area and broadcast. The key objective of E2R is to devise, develop and trial architectural design of reconfigurable devices and supporting s...

The current modus operandi of different proposed architectures for all-IP mobile and wireless networks is commonly based on the assumption of best-effort routing and per-class (DiffServ) or per-flow (IntServ) treatment of IP traffic. At the same time, emergence and promotion of QoS routing as an embedded network feature seems orthogonal to the depl...

The following paper discusses ways to provide reachability to devices residing within a moving network. A device is reachable when an external node can successfully contact it. In this paper we introduce two novel solutions to support reachability in moving networks – one based on a proxy signalling agent and the other on the use of temporary names...

In this paper we provide an overview of the ASCOT project and present intermediate results on investigations concerning address management. ASCOT considers managed vehicular networks, i.e. moving networks attached to public transport vehicles that provide network connectivity to its passengers. We briefly describe how ASCOT positions itself among o...

Amongst the activities of the European Commission IST research project MIND [1] is extensive consideration of the multi-homing issues in IP access networks. Analysis of the various multi-homing scenarios reveals diverse aspects of multi-homing relevant to both the operations of the access network as well as the hosts connected to it. The originalit...

The BRAIN [1] project dealt with the development of an IP-based architecture for IP access networks. Extensive research into IP mobility protocols was one of the main activities of the project. The BRAIN Access Network (AN) is defined as a static IP access network with wired internal infrastructure and heterogeneous wireless access for mobile nodes...

This paper presents some results of work in multi- homing conducted as part of the MIND (1) project. It contains an overview of the concepts of multi-homing in relevant Internet research as well as the steps used for developing an original perspective on the problem. The uniqueness of the problem is argued to arise from the originality of connectiv...

Mobile IP [1] has been developed in the IETF for a number of years already. It's simplicity and scalability give it a growing success within the IETF as several Internet drafts are proposed to extend various improvements for Mobile IP and its counterpart designed for IPv6, Mobile IPv6 [2]. Mobile IP suffers from several well-known weaknesses that h...

With the fast adoption of IP-based communications for mobile computing, users are expecting a similar service in wireless and wired networks. This raises the need for setting guarantees to the quality of the offered service (QoS), despite the technology of the access network or the mobility of the terminal. As mobile computing is getting more popul...

With the fast adoption of IP-based communications for mobile computing, users are expecting a similar service in wireless and wired networks. This raises the need for setting guarantees to the quality of the offered service (QoS), despite the technology of the access network (AN) or the mobility of the terminal. As mobile computing is getting more...

The fast adoption of IP-based communications for hand-held devices equipped with wireless interfaces is creating new challenges for the Internet evolution. Users expect flexible access to Internet based services, including not only traditional data services but also multimedia applications. This generates a new challenge for QoS provision, as it wi...