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May 2013 - October 2014
December 2012 - May 2013
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- Experienced Marie Curie Research Fellow
January 2009 - November 2012
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Sensing will be a key technology in 6G networks, enabling a plethora of new sensing-enabled use cases. Some of the use cases relate to deployments over a wide physical area that needs to be sensed by multiple sensing sources at different locations. The efficient management of the sensing resources is pivotal for sustainable sensing-enabled mobile n...
The use of 5G for private networks has seen an increased interest in industry and standardisation alike with an expected increase of that market in the coming years. FUDGE-5G is the first 5G-PPP project that focuses solely on Non-private Network with an innovation space in the core network domain. Beyond utilising the advancements brought by 5G and...
This paper discusses the Facility for Large-scale Adaptive Media Experimentation (FLAME) Platform, a Servicebased Architecture that demonstrates the concept of cloud native service orchestration and routing for media applications. This enables automated provisioning and management of microservices delivering a service function chain, which affords...
Human sensing information such as audio (hearing) and visual (sight) or a combination thereof audiovisual are transferred over communication networks. Yet interacting sense of touch (haptic) and particularly the kinaesthetic (muscular movement) component has much stricter end-to-end latency communication requirements between tactile ends. The state...
5G promises to bring back value to the network operator and not only serve as a data pipe solution anymore. Operators have started to adopt cloud-native paradigms for the deployment of the 5G core architecture. With it goes the introduction of the service-based architecture as a key design pattern for realizing future control, and ultimately user p...
Operators have been adopting the cloud‐native paradigm for the roll‐out of 5G architecture. With it goes the introduction of the service‐based architecture as a key design pattern for realizing future control‐ and ultimately user‐planes of mobile networks. The main benefits of this new design pattern are increased flexibility, meaning new business...
The adoption of 5G promises low latency and high throughput, greater adaptability of highly distributed compute and storage infrastructure, as well as configuration and management of a wide range of network services. This paradigm shift in network operations and usage results in a tighter integration
of the infrastructure with the platform that all...
When deploying a digital media service on the FLAME platform, you are placing it in a responsive environment that reacts (using behaviours you have defined) in real-time to metrics of interest to you. Considering this behaviour as a continuous cycle of optimization in which your target user experience (UX) is negotiated with the most efficient use...
Operators have been adopting the cloud-native paradigm for the rollout of 5G architecture. With it goes the introduction of the service-based architecture as a key design pattern for realizing future control, and ultimately user planes of mobile networks. The main benefits of this new design pattern are the increased flexibility to address new busi...
This report is the second technology roadmap for a ground-breaking media service delivery platform being developed by the FLAME project. The report describes the software products to be delivered at infrastructure, platform and media service layers and how combinations of products are used to exploit the benefits of highly distributed software-defi...
Future scenarios, such as AR/VR, pose challenging latency and bandwidth requirements in 5G. This need is complemented by the adoption of cloud principles for providing services, particularly for virtualizing service components with which virtualized instances can appear rapidly at different execution points in the network. While providing service e...
This report provides the FLAME Future Media Internet (FMI) vision in 2019. The vision considers the evolving landscape of media services and technological paradigms that inspire 5G. The deliverable provides updated descriptions of FLAME partner validation scenarios and media service use cases, which leverage the content delivery optimizations provi...
This report provides the second version of the FLAME platform architecture and infrastructure specification. It outlines therefore the blueprint that forms the basis for further specification but more importantly the implementation work towards a deployable FLAME platform within the infrastructures of Bristol and Barcelona, and other sites. The rep...
Information-centric networking (ICN) has long been advocating for radical changes to the IP-based Internet. However, the upgrade challenges that this entails have hindered ICN adoption. To break this loop, the POINT project proposed a hybrid, IP-over-ICN, architecture: IP networks are preserved at the edge, connected to each other over an ICN core....
Information-centric networking (ICN) has long been advocating for radical changes to the IP-based Internet. However, the upgrade challenges that this entails have hindered ICN adoption. To break this loop, the POINT project proposed a hybrid, IP-over-ICN, architecture: IP networks are preserved at the edge, connected to each other over an ICN core....
D3.3 provides the first version of the FLAME platform architecture and infrastructure specification. It outlines therefore the blueprint that forms the basis for further specification work in WP3 but more importantly the implementation work in WP4 towards a deployable FLAME platform within the infrastructures of Bristol-Is-Open and Barcelona. D3.3...
The era of petabyte data has arrived as the digital big data universe continues its expansion toward exascale with massive volumes of data generated by diverse distributed sources. The size of big data makes it very difficult to gain insight into the meaning of data. In industrial applications, in order to explore both the meaning of data and the c...
nformation-centric networking (ICN) has been positioned for a number of years as a possible replacement to the IP-based Internet architecture with key promises in terms of network efficiency, privacy, security and novel applications. However, such wholesale replacement of the IP-based Internet through a new routing and service infrastructure has al...
Information-centric networking (ICN) has been actively studied as a promising alternative to the IP-based Internet architecture with potential benefits in terms of network efficiency, privacy, security, and novel applications. However, it is difficult to adopt such wholesale replacement of the IP-based Internet to a new routing and service infrastr...
The rapid development of network technology and its evolution toward heterogeneous networks has increased the demand to support automatic monitoring and the management of heterogeneous wireless communication networks. This paper presents a multilevel pattern mining architecture to support automatic network management by discovering interesting patt...
With the technological evolution in telecommunica-tion networks, performance requirements such as better coverage, higher bandwidth, and lower latency have been pushed to new horizons. However, as a direct result network complexity has increased dramatically over the recent years, and with this complexity manageability has suffered. This paper pres...
Currently the volume of telecom network management data is expanding in exponential scale, mainly due to the explosive increase in the number of communicating devices along with the increasing heterogeneity of the networks. Such scale of data obsoletes the traditional approach of extracting offline analytics from the network traces governed by some...
Current telecom networks generate massive amounts of monitoring data consisting of observations on network faults, configuration, accounting, performance, and security. Due to the ever increasing degree of complexity of networks, coupled with specific constraints (legal, regulatory, increasing scale of management in heterogeneous networks), the tra...
Monitoring and management of modern telecommunication networks has become more and more challenging due to the explosion in scale of data generated by network elements. Not only has the size of the network, the number of nodes, and the number of customers increased, but the amount and dimensionality of the data coming from each managed element has...
This paper presents the high level specification of a Self Configuration Framework for 802.11 multi-radio Wireless Mesh Networks based on a centralised topology discovery and channel assignment mechanism. The framework was designed to support the introduction of a new Mesh Node into the network at any time of the network's operational phase. Furthe...
There is already a vast literature on the efficiency of the 802.11a MAC using Markov Chain models. This current literature states that the output of these mathematical models are aggregated throughput values related to the number of radios sharing the same physical medium. The study presented in this paper shows an inaccuracy in the proposed Markov...
In this paper the accuracy and distribution of measured 802.11 Receive Signal Strength values will be analysed using three different Atheros based cards. The analysis is performed using empirical methods, e.g., sample mean and Empirical Cumulative Distribution Functions, in order to demonstrate the dependency of the accuracy of Receive Signal Stren...
Current backhaul networks typically comprise a wired middle mile and a wireless last mile part. The wireless part is almost exclusively based on tree topologies. However, a lot could be gained by deploying mesh-based backhauls. Meshes allow better network capacity exploitation due to load balancing and offer inherent resilience to link degradations...
Self-Configuration Frameworks for 802.11 Wireless Mesh Networks mainly use measured Received Signal Strength values to mitigate interferences such as Adjacent Channel Interference and Inter Channel Interference by applying interference and capacity aware channel assignment algorithms and radio configuration techniques. For such tasks accurate Recei...
Radio links are used to provide backhaul connectivity for base stations of mobile networks, in cases in which cable-based alternatives are not available and cannot be deployed in an economic or timely manner. While such wireless backhauls have been predominantly used in redundant tree and ring topologies in the past, mobile network operators have b...
To successfully develop IEEE 802.11a based wireless mesh network solutions that can achieve the reliability and capacities required to offer high quality triple play services the use of multiple radios in each mesh node is essential. Unfortunately, the co-location of multiple antennas in a single device leads to a number of interference problems. I...
CARMEN is a three-year Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP) funded by the European Commission within the 7th Framework Program. The CARMEN access network will complement existing access technologies by exploiting low cost mesh networking techniques, thus minimizing deployment and maintenance costs. The CARMEN architecture introduces an abstra...
CARMEN is a three-year Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP) funded by the European Commission within the 7th Framework Program. The CARMEN access network will complement existing access technologies by exploiting low cost mesh networking techniques, thus minimizing deployment and maintenance costs. The CARMEN architecture introduces an abstra...
At the Fraunhofer Campus in Sankt Augustin, Germany a testbed for a QoS-differentiated multi-technology Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) has been started. This longer term R&D project focuses on the development, evaluation and refinement of routing protocols and self-management algorithms for near carrier-grade mesh networks in rural or developing areas...