Uplink users in cellular networks, such as UMTS/ HSPA, located at the edge of the cell generally suffer from poor channel conditions. Deploying intermediate relay nodes is seen as ...
Desislava C. Dimitrova, Hans van den Berg, Geert J...
The imminent mass deployment of pervasive computing technologies such as sensor networks and RFID tags, together with the increasing participation of the Web community in feeding ...
Gabriella Castelli, Alberto Rosi, Marco Mamei, Fra...
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers keep extending with new features the computing infrastructures they offer on a pay per use basis. In this paper we explore reasons and...
—In cognitive radio (CR) networks, licensed spectrum that can be shared by secondary users (SUs) is always restricted by the needs of primary users (PUs). Although channel aggreg...
Abstract— This paper presents a gentle system for supervising care-support services that fulfill users’ actual requirements based on their physical locations and statuses of s...