FLAVIA partners: CNIT

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives: Dynamic reprogramming of wireless interfaces for customised monitoring applications 

Title: Radio Access Network Virtualization for Future Mobile Carrier Networks

Journal: (accepted) IEEE Communications Magazine, June 2013

FLAVIA partners: NEC

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives: Overview of RAN Virtualization State of the-art including standardization and NEC contributions in the area

Title: Latest Trends in Telecommunication Standards

Journal: (accepted) ACM Computer Communications Review, April 2013

FLAVIA partners: NEC

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives: Overview of latest standardization trends with a special focus on 3GPP, ONF and ETSI NFV virtualization activities

Title: Mitigating Collisions through Power-Hopping to Improve 802.11 Performance<

Journal: (accepted) Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing

FLAVIA partners: NUIM

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives: Power-hopping PHY/MAC scheme that mitigates collisions by deliberately causing capture in dense 802.11 WLANs.

Title: Cross-Layer Metrics for Reliable Routing in Wireless Mesh Networks

Journal: (accepted, available online on IEEE XPLORE) IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

FLAVIA partners: MobiMESH

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives: Design and analysis of novel cross layer metrics for reliable routing in Wireless Mesh Networks

Title: A Survey on Opportunistic Scheduling in Wireless Communications

Journal: (accepted, available online on IEEE XPLORE) IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

FLAVIA partners: IMDEA, UC3M

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives: A survey of opportunistic scheduling mechanisms for wireless networks.

Title: A Game Theoretic Approach to Distributed Opportunistic Scheduling

Journal: (accepted)IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

FLAVIA partners: IMDEA, UC3M

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives: Game-theoretic analysis and proposal of a novel algorithm for opportunistic and distributed multi-user and diversity exploitation in wireless networks

Title: Control Theoretic Optimization of 802.11 WLANs: Implementation and Experimental Evaluation

Journal: Computer Networks (Elsevier), Volume 57, Issue 1, 16 January 2013, Pages 258-272, ISSN 1389-1286, 

FLAVIA partners: IMDEA, UC3M, NUIM

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives: WP4, analysis and experiments with self-tuning 802.11 contention control parameters

Title: Providing Throughput and Fairness Guarantees in Virtualized WLANs through Control Theory

Magazine or Journal: Mobile Networks and Applications, Springer, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 435-446

FLAVIA partners: AGH, IMDEA, NUIM.

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives: A mechanism to provide a fair resource distribution in virtualized environments.

 Title: Greening Wireless Communications: Status and Future Directions

 Magazine or Journal:(accepted) Elsevier Computer Communications

 FLAVIA partners: IMDEA, NUIM.

 Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives: A survey of energy-efficient mechanisms for wireless networks.

Title: What’s New for QoS in IEEE 802.11?

Magazine or Journal:(accepted) IEEE Network Magazine

FLAVIA partners: AGH, IITP, CNIT.

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives: A survey of new 802.11 QoS mechanisms, including ones developed in WP6.

Title: Analytical model of interaction between contention-based and deterministic channel access methods in Wi-Fi Mesh networks

Magazine or Journal: (accepted) Automation and Remote Control, Vol. 74, No. 10, 2013.

FLAVIA partners: IITP

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives: Description and analysis of different backoff counting methods developed within WP6 for providing the interaction between two channel access methods used in Wi-Fi Mesh networks.

Title: Groupcast routing with the possibility to choose a channel transmission method

Magazine or Journal: (accepted) Automation and Remote Control, Vol. 74, No. 10, 2013.

FLAVIA partners: IITP

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives: An original method for QoS-oriented groupcast routing in 802.11 multihop networks, based on groupcast transmission methods developed in WP6

Title: A Survey of Medium Access Mechanisms for Providing QoS in Ad-Hoc Networks

Magazine or Journal: IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, published online 27 June 2012

FLAVIA partners: AGH, CNIT

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives:WP6, an innovative taxonomic classification of MAC layer mechanisms for supporting QoS in ad-hoc networks

Title: Analytical Study of the Quality of Links Established by Neighborhood Discovery Protocol

Magazine or Journal: Springer Journal of Communications Technology and Electronics, Vol. 57, No 12, P. 1314-1321, 2012.

FLAVIA partners: IITP.

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives: WP6, an original QoS-oriented link management protocol for OLSR-based MANET is proposed and evaluated.

Title: A method to estimate efficiency of the connection control mechanisms in wireless self-organizing networks

Magazine or Journal: Automation and Remote Control, Volume 73, Number 5 (2012)

FLAVIA partners: IITP

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives:WP6, an original method to estimate efficiency of the algorithms for opening and closing

links in WMN is proposed

Title: Throughput and energy-aware routing for 802.11 based Mesh Networks

Magazine or Journal:(accepted) Elsevier Computer Communications

FLAVIA partners: IMDEA

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives: WP6, gains on energy savings by re-routing and deactivating nodes

Title: Analysis of power saving with continuous connectivity

Magazine or Journal: International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking (Computer Networks), Special Issue on Green Communication Networks, Volume 56, Issue 10, 5 July 2012, Pages 2481–2493.

FLAVIA partners: IMDEA

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives: Analysis and simulation of power saving solutions for programmable DRX solutions in cellular networks with continuous connectivity and Poisson traffic.

Title: Balancing Energy Efficiency and Throughput Fairness in IEEE 802.11 WLANs

Magazine or Journal: (accepted) Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing

FLAVIA partners: IMDEA

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives: Analysis, simulation and experimentation of the trade-off between energy efficiency and throughput fairness in IEEE 802.11.

Title: Analysis of power saving and its impact on web traffic in cellular networks with continuous connectivity

Magazine or Journal: (accepted) Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing

FLAVIA partners: IMDEA

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives: Analysis and simulation of power saving solutions for programmable DRX solutions in cellular networks with continuous connectivity and Web traffic.

Title: Correlation of Wireless Link Quality: A Distributed Approach for Computing the Reception Correlation

Magazine or Journal: IEEE Communications Letters

FLAVIA partners: MOBI

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives: Design and implementation of a distributed and on-line mechanism to estimate the packet reception correlation (joint reception probability and correlation index) of wireless links.

Title: MAC Design for WiFi Infrastructure Networks: a game-theoretic approach

Magazine or Journal: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

FLAVIA partners: CNIT

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives: Game-theoretic analysis of random access schemes showing that even when stations are selfish, efficient equilibria conditions can be reached

Title: Analytical model of IEEE 802.11s MCCA based streaming in the presence of noise

Magazine or Journal: ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review 2011

FLAVIA partners: IITP

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives:MCCA-based streaming model used to enhance 802.11s operation

Title: Analytical Study of QoS Oriented Multicast in Wireless Networks

Magazine or Journal: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Vol. 11. Article ID 307507. 2011

FLAVIA partners: IITP

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives: Reliable multicast mechanisms which can be easily added to the existing 802.11 and 802.16 software, using the FLAVIA modular architecture approach

Title: Decentralised learning MACs for collision-free access in WLANs

Magazine or Journal: Springer Wireless Networks, 2012

FLAVIA partners: NUIM

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives:Presents a scheduled-like media access solution over 802.11 networks.

Title: Coded Unicast Downstream Traffic in a Wireless Network: Analysis and WiFi Implementation

Journal: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2013

FLAVIA partners: BGU

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives: Design, analyze and implement a network coding based scheme for the problem of transmitting multiple unicast streams from a single access point to multiple receivers.

Event: Future Networks and Mobile Summit, Berlin 2012

Event: To appear in proceeding of WoWMoM 2013, Madrid.

Event: INFOCOM 2013

Event: ACM CoNEXT 2012, Nice, France.

Event: FUNEMS 2012, Berlin, July 2012.

Conference: IEEE 27-th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel 2012, Eilat, Israel

FLAVIA partners: BGU

FLAVIA partners: BGU

FLAVIA partners: BGU

Event: Future Network and MobileSummit 2013 Conference Proceedings, Lisbon 2013.

Event: ICTC 2012, South Korea

Title: The Risks of WiFi Flexibility: Enabling and Detecting Cheating

Conference: Future Network and MobileSummit 2013

FLAVIA partners: AGH, CNIT

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives: A misbehaviour detection and reaction framework. 

Title: Making IEEE 802.11 Wireless Access Programmable

Conference: Future Network and MobileSummit 2013

FLAVIA partners: IITP, CNIT, UC3M

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives: Summarize enhancements of IEEE 802.11 technology developed within WP6, based on flexibility provided by FLAVIA architecture. 

Title: Detecting Transmission Power Misbehaviour in Wi-Fi Networks

Conference: International Workshop on Wireless Access Flexibility (WiFlex)

FLAVIA partners: AGH

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives: Enable detection of the abnormally raised Tx power in single rate and multi rate IEEE 802.11 networks. 

Title: 802.11 Buffers: When Bigger is Not Better?

Conference: International Workshop on Wireless Access Flexibility (WiFlex)

FLAVIA partners: NUIM

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives:A study of the impact of packet buffer size on the delay and loss performance of 802.11 nodes.

Title: Dynamic Resource Allocation for MCCA-Based Streaming in Wi-Fi Mesh Networks

Conference: International Workshop on Wireless Access Flexibility (WiFlex)

FLAVIA partners: IITP 

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives:Method to control dynamically the number of MCCA reservations and their protection types developed in WP6 to meet QoS requirements, while minimizing channel resource consumption.

Title: Practical Node Policing in 802.11 WLANs (demo)

Conference: 14th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2013), Madrid, Spain 

FLAVIA partners: NUIM

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives:A demonstration of the 802.11 node policing scheme developed in FLAVIA.

Title: Mobile Access of Wide-Spectrum Networks: Design, Deployment and Experimental Evaluation

Conference: IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Turin, Italy, April 2013 

FLAVIA partners: NUIM

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives:An effective scheme that enables mobile clients to select the vast number of association options exposed by wireless networks operating in multiple unlicensed bands.

Title: A Bandwidth Trading Marketplace for Mobile Data Offloading 

Conference: IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM Mini conference), Turin, Italy, April 2013

FLAVIA partners: MobiMESH 

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives:Mechanism that exploits the flexibility and virtualization features of the FLAVIA architecture to foster data offloading in heterogeneous mobile networks

Title: An Innovative Rate Adaptation Algorithm for Multicast Transmissions in Wireless LANs

Conference: 77th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2013-Spring 2-5 June 2013, Dresden, Germany

FLAVIA partners: CNIT, MobiMESH

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives:New rate adaptation mechanism for multicast transmissions based on the information collected by the SuperSense

Title: Energy Efficient Opportunistic Uplink Packet Forwarding in Hybrid Wireless Networks

Conference: ACM e-Energy 2013, Berkeley, CA, USA.

FLAVIA partners: IMDEA, UC3M 

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives: New scheduling solutions for opportunistic cellular network access (WP5)

Title: BASICS: Scheduling Base Stations to Mitigate Interferences in Cellular Networks

Conference: 14th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2013), Madrid, Spain

FLAVIA partners: IMDEA, UC3M

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives:ICIC with applications to LTE networks (WP5 and WP8)

 Title: A novel Intercell Coordinated Scheduling approach using Application Reservation Information

 Conference: WCNC 2013, Shanghai, China

FLAVIA partners: IMDEA, NEC

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives: traffic-aware ICIC (WP5)

Title: Energy consumption anatomy of 802.11 devices and its implication on modeling and design 

Conference: ACM CoNEXT 2012 – December 10-13 2012, Nice, France

FLAVIA partners: IMDEA, CNIT

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives:An extensive anatomy of the per-packet consumption and analysis, characterization and evaluation of the total power consumption of the 802.11 devices.

Title: Analytical Study of Neighborhood Discovery and Link Management in OLSR

Conference: IFIP Wireless Days 2012

FLAVIA partners: IITP

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives: WP6, an original method to estimate efficiency of the algorithms for opening and closing links in OLSR-based MANET is proposed 

Title: Breaking Layer 2: A New Architecture for Programmable Wireless Interfaces

Conference: IEEE Int. Conf. on Information and Communication Technology Convergence (ICTC 2012), Jeju Island, Korea, 2012.

FLAVIA partners: CNIT, IITP

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives: WP2, WP4, WP6 – exploitation of FLAVIA architecture to implement mesh deterministic access method 

Title: Analytical Study of Link Management in IEEE 802.11s Mesh Networks

Conference: International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS) 2012

FLAVIA partners: IITP

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives: WP6, design and evaluation of QoS-oriented link management protocol for IEEE 802.11s Mesh Networks.

Title: 802.11ec: Collision Avoidance without Control Messages

Conference: ACM MobiCom 2012

FLAVIA partners: BGU 

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives: Design, implement and evaluate an 802.11-based protocol without control messages.

Title: Asymmetric Uplink-Downlink Assignment for Energy-Efficient Mobile Communication Systems

Conference: IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2012

FLAVIA partners: NEC

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives: Design of a novel asymmetric user assignment scheme, which enables operators to save energy, while satisfying the capacity demands.

Title: Achievable Net-Rates in Multi-User OFDMA with Partial CSI and Finite Channel Coherence

Conference:(accepted) IEEE Vehicular technology Conference Fall 2012, Sep, 2012

FLAVIA partners: NEC

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives: WP5, Solutions for intra-cell novel scheduling schemes

Title: Mathematical model of MCCA-based streaming process in mesh networks in the presence of noise

Conference: WCNC 2012

FLAVIA partners: IITP

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives: Method for mesh deterministic access appliance to achieve parameterized QoS in the presence of noise

Title: On designing next generation MAC for cellular networks using the FLAVIA paradigm

Conference: ICT Future Network & Mobile Summit, 2012

FLAVIA partners: IMDEA, BGU, NEC, Alvarion

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives: Description of scheduled architecture and services designed in WP3 and WP5

Title: Exploiting the Capture Effect to Improve WLAN Throughput

Conference: IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), 2012

FLAVIA partners: NUIM

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives: Analysis of impact of capture effect and design of a power hopping scheme for 802.11 networks. 

Title: A Game-Theoretic Approach to EDCA Remapping Attacks

Conference: (accepted) 8th International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCom), 2012

FLAVIA partners: AGH

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives: Analysis of a misbehaviour strategy based for 802.11 networks 

Title: Wireless Card Virtualization: From Virtual NICs to Virtual MAC Machines

Conference: ICT Future Network & Mobile Summit, 2012

FLAVIA partners: Telefonica, CNIT

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives:Description of a virtualizable 802.11 architectural solutions based on FLAVIA’s WP4 work 

Title: A modular, flexible and virtualizable framework for IEEE 802.11

Conference: ICT Future Network & Mobile Summit, 2012

FLAVIA partners: IMDEA, CNIT, MOBI, AGH, NEC, NUIM, TID

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives: Description of a 802.11 architectural solutions based on FLAVIA’s WP4 work

Title: Wireless MAC Processors: Programming MAC Protocols on Commodity Hardware

Conference: IEEE INFOCOM 2012

FLAVIA partners: CNIT  

Title: Distributed Opportunistic Scheduling: A Control Theoretic Approach

Conference: IEEE INFOCOM 2012 

FLAVIA partners: IMDEA

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives: Proposal of a novel algorithm for opportunistic and distributed multi-user and diversity exploitation in wireless networks. 

Title: VoIPiggy: Implementation and evaluation of a mechanism to boost voice capacity in 802.11 WLANs

Conference: IEEE INFOCOM 2012

FLAVIA partners: IMDEA, CNIT 

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives: Analytical and experimental evaluation of a mechanism that improves the efficiency of 802.11 MAC operation when voice traffic is present in 802.11 WLANs

Title: Interference, even with MCCA channel access method in IEEE 802.11s mesh networks

Conference: IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS 2011)

FLAVIA partners: IITP 

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives:Concept of enhanced protection for MCCA-based reservation

Title: Flexibility of Routing Framework Architecture in IEEE 802.11s Mesh Networks

Conference: IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS 2011)

FLAVIA partners: IITP

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives:Proof of necessity in more flexible routing architecture for 802.11s mesh networks 

Title: Insomnia in the Access or How to Curb Access Network Related Energy Consumption

Conference: ACM SIGCOMM 2011

FLAVIA partners: TID

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives:Wireless card virtualization to enable simultaneous monitoring of the utilization of all APs in range 

Title: On the Flexibility of the IEEE 802.11 Technology: Challenges and Directions

Conference: ICT Future Network & Mobile Summit, 2011

FLAVIA partners: CNIT

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives:Description of aprogrammable802.11 architectural solution based on FLAVIA’s WP4 work 

Title: FLAVIA: Towards a Generic MAC for 4G Mobile Cellular Networks 

Conference: ICT Future Network & Mobile Summit, 2011

FLAVIA partners: ALV, BGU, IMD, NEC

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives:Analysis of the potentialities of the FLAVIA architecture for 4G systems based on FLAVIA’s WP3 work

Title: Energy-efficient fair channel access for IEEE 802.11 WLANs

Conference: IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), 2011

FLAVIA partners: IMD 

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives:Analysis of IEEE 802.11 trade-offs when considering energy efficiency and fairness issues

Title: Coloring-based resource allocations in ad-hoc wireless networks

Conference: MedHoc, 2011

FLAVIA partners: CNIT

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives:Proposal of distributed colouring algorithms with limited signalling overhead that can be customized as a function of the network topology and traffic load 

Title: Maximizing network capacity in an heterogeneous macro-micro cellular scenario

Conference: IEEE ISCC, 2011

FLAVIA partners: CNIT

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives:Analysis of multi-cellular resource allocation schemes in heterogeneous OFDMA environments with reuse factor equal to 1considering different feedback options

Title: A framework for Packet-Droppers Mitigation in OLSR Wireless Community Networks

Conference: IEEE ICC, 2011 

FLAVIA partners: CNIT

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives:Proposal of a fully distributed trust-based routing framework for wireless community networks

Title: Traffic-Centric Modelling by IEEE 802.11 DCF Example

Conference: ASMTA 2011

FLAVIA partners: CNIT 

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives:Evaluation of a novel 802.11 performance modelling methodology

Title: Power save analysis of cellular networks with continuous connectivity

Conference: IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), 2011

FLAVIA partners: IMD

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives:Analysis and optimization of power saving protocols for scheduled services 

Title: Resource Efficiency of Traffic-Centric Model for Complex LTE systems

Conference: Fourth International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Modelling and Simulation (CIMSiM 2012)

FLAVIA partners: CNIT

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives: Studying the development and efficiency of LTE modeling using the Traffic-Centric Modelling approach 

Title: Capacity of Distributed Opportunistic Scheduling in Heterogeneous Networks

Conference: 50th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton 2012) 

FLAVIA partners: BGU

Contribution to FLAVIA’s objectives: Design and analyze novel distributed scheduling algorithms for multi-user MIMO systems.