Browsing by Subject "Wireless telecommunication systems"

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      4G converged environment: Modeling network selection as a game 

      Antoniou, Josephina; Pitsillides, Andreas (2007)
      Network Selection mechanism in 4G mobile networks is a newly introduced mechanism that handles the selection of the best network to satisfy a service request. Network Selection needs to take part prior to admission of the ...
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      Bilateral routing in emergency response networks 

      Kolios, Panayiotis; Pitsillides, Andreas; Mokryn, O. (IEEE Computer Society, 2013)
      An emergency response networking scenario is considered, in which immediately after the strike of a disaster, mobile terminals autonomously form an ad-hoc network. Distress nodes, use this network to disseminate help-requests ...
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      A comparative study of protocols for efficient data propagation in smart dust networks 

      Chatzigiannakis, Ioannis; Dimitriou, Tassos D.; Mavronicolas, Marios; Nikoletseas, Sotiris E.; Spirakis, Paul G. (2003)
      Smart Dust is comprised of a vast number of ultra-small fully autonomous computing and communication devices, with very restricted energy and computing capabilities, that co-operate to accomplish a large sensing task. Smart ...
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      Congestion control in wireless sensor networks based on the bird flocking behavior 

      Antoniou, Pavlos Ch.; Pitsillides, Andreas; Engelbrecht, A.; Blackwell, T.; Michael, Loizos (2009)
      Recently, performance controlled wireless sensor networks have attracted significant interest with the emergence of mission-critical applications (e.g. health monitoring). Performance control can be carried out by robust ...
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      Continuous monitoring of children with suspected cardiac arrhythmias 

      Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Kounoudes, A.; Paraskeva, Loucas; Konstantinides, A.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Jossif, Antonis P.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Vogiatzis, Dimitrios G. (2009)
      Advances in wireless communications and networking technologies as well as computer and medical technologies, enable the development of small size, power efficient and more reliable medical multi-parameter recording systems, ...
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      Control over wireless communication channel for continuous-time systems 

      Charalambous, Charalambos D.; Denic, S. Z.; Farhadi, A. (2005)
      This paper is concerned with the control of one dimensional continuous time linear Gaussian systems over additive white noise wireless fading channels subject to capacity constraints. Necessary and sufficient conditions ...
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      DBGlobe: A service-oriented P2P system for global computing 

      Pitoura, Evaggelia 1967-; Abiteboul, S.; Pfoser, D.; Samaras, George S.; Vazirgiannis, M. (2003)
      The challenge of peer-to-peer computing goes beyond simple file sharing. In the DBGlobe project, we view the multitude of peers carrying data and services as a super-database. Our goal is to develop a data management system ...
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      An edgeworth series expansion for multipath fading channel densities 

      Menemenlis, N.; Charalambous, Charalambos D. (2002)
      Identifying the statistical characteristics of the received signal in wireless communications, plays an important role in the design of different functions of the overall communications system. We demonstrate here that the ...
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      Editorial message: Special track on ubiquitous computing 

      Roussos, G.; Samaras, George S.; Spinellis, D. (2004)
      Ubiquitous computing places humans in the center of environments saturated with computing and wireless communications capabilities, yet gracefully integrated, so that technology recedes in the background of everyday ...
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      Editorial message: Special track on ubiquitous computing 

      Roussos, G.; Samaras, George S. (2005)
      Ubiquitous computing places humans in the center of environments saturated with computing and wireless communications capabilities, yet gracefully integrated, so that technology recedes in the background of everyday ...
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      Emergency network design - saving lives by saving power 

      Hadaad, N.; Pitsillides, Andreas; Kolios, Panayiotis; Kuras, A.; Addie, R. G. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017)
      In disasters and emergencies severity of trauma and loss of life can be reduced by more effective communication between emergency workers, volunteers, and survivors. Typically, almost all of these parties will hold mobile ...
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      Emergency TeleOrthoPaedics m-health system for wireless communication links 

      Hadjinicolaou, Marios G.; Nilavalan, R.; Itagaki, T.; Voskarides, Sotos Ch; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Schizas, Akis N. (2009)
      For the first time, a complete wireless and mobile emergency TeleOrthoPaedics system with field trials and expert opinion is presented. The system enables doctors in a remote area to obtain a second opinion from doctors ...
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      Employing the flocking behavior of birds for controlling congestion in autonomous decentralized networks 

      Antoniou, Pavlos Ch.; Pitsillides, Andreas; Blackwell, T.; Engelbrecht, A. (2009)
      Recently a great emphasis has been given on autonomous decentralized networks (ADNs) wherein constituent nodes carry out specific tasks collectively. Their dynamic and constrained nature along with the emerging need for ...
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      ETC: Energy-driven tree construction in wireless sensor networks 

      Andreou, Panayiotis G.; Pamboris, Andreas; Zeinalipour-Yazdi, Constantinos D.; Chrysanthis, Panos K.; Samaras, George S. (2009)
      Continuous queries in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are founded on the premise of Query Routing Tree structures (denoted as T), which provide sensors with a path to the querying node. Predominant data acquisition systems ...
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      Experimental evaluation of NFC reliability between an RFID tag and a smartphone 

      Mareli, M.; Rimer, S.; Paul, B. S.; Ouahada, K.; Pitsillides, Andreas (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2013)
      Near Field Communication (NFC) is a short range wireless technology that enables data transfer between two NFC devices. It is derived from Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology. However, NFC only operates at ...
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      Explore and exploit in wireless ad hoc emergency response networks 

      Kolios, Panayiotis; Pitsillides, Andreas; Mokryn, O.; Papadaki, Katerina P. (IEEE Computer Society, 2014)
      This work is concerned with the problem of efficient and intelligent message forwarding in wireless networks. This problem arises in many diverse scenarios within ad-hoc networks and especially networks formed during and ...
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      FSort: External sorting on flash-based sensor devices 

      Andreou, Panayiotis G.; Spanos, O.; Zeinalipour-Yazdi, Constantinos D.; Samaras, George S.; Chrysanthis, Panos K. (2009)
      In long-term deployments of Wireless Sensor Networks, it is often more efficient to store sensor readings locally at each device and transmit those readings to the user only when requested (i.e., in response to a user ...
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      Handover control in MBMS enabled 3G mobile cellular networks 

      Christophorou, C.; Pitsillides, Andreas; Binucci, N. (2007)
      Handover Control in a cellular infrastructure aims to provide continuity of mobile services to a user traveling over cell boundaries. Using the existing Handover Control algorithm in 3rd Generation (3G) Mobile Cellular ...
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      Intermediary infrastructures for the World Wide Web 

      Dikaiakos, Marios D. (2004)
      Intermediaries are software entities, deployed on hosts of the wireline and wireless network, that mediate the interaction between clients and servers of the World Wide Web. In this paper we present a survey of intermediaries, ...
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      Internet-based Indoor Navigation Services 

      Zeinalipour-Yazdi, Constantinos D.; Laoudias, Christos; Georgiou, K.; Chatzimilioudis, Georgios (2017)
      The advances of smartphone technology in recent years is leading to the uptake of a new class of Internet-based Indoor Navigation (IIN) services, which might soon diminish the need of Satellite-based technologies in urban ...