Fourth Generation Broadband Delivered by Hybrid FttH Solution — A Techno-Economic Study

The use of fibre will be inevitable for transporting hundreds of Mb/s to and from end-users, but this does not necessary mean that fibre has to be deployed all the way up to a point into the home. An alternative is bringing fibre up to the Home (Hybrid FttH) and reusing existing telephony wiring for abridging the last 20-200m. A new transmission...

Cyber kwetsbaarheden bij Defensie

Wapensystemen en de ondersteuning daarvan zijn net als de rest van de samenleving steeds meer afhankelijk van ICT. De JSF is in feite een vliegend computersysteem dat gekoppeld is aan computersystemen op de grond die het voor en tijdens de vlucht van informatie voorzien. In de defensie Cyber strategie wordt daarom zwaar ingezet op het versterken...

Modeling Interdependent Socio-technical Networks via ABM Smart Grid Case

The objective of this paper is to improve scientific modeling of interdependent socio-technical networks. In these networks the interplay between technical or infrastructural elements on the one hand and social and behavioral aspects on the other hand, is of importance. Examples include electricity networks, financial networks, residential...

Spectrum availability for next generation satellite services: Coexistence with terrestrial mobile services

Having available adequate and sufficient spectrum resources is a crucial factor to enable the fast growth of broadband mobile communications. Efficient use of scarce radio spectrum becomes more and more important. Especially in the lower frequency bands, with favorable conditions for mobile communications, spectrum will have to be shared between...

Security challenges for cooperative and interconnected mobility systems

Software is becoming an important part of the innovation for vehicles. In addition, the systems in vehicles become interconnected and also get external connections, to the internet and Vehicular Ad hoc NETworks (VANETs). These trends form a combined security and safety threat, because recent research has demonstrated a large number of security...

Strategische assets in het geconvergeerde telecom-media-internet waardeweb

Telecom, media en internet raken steeds verder met elkaar verweven op het niveau van netwerken, diensten en markten. Deze convergentie ontwikkelt zich al geruime tijd en zal de komende jaren doorgaan. Het is een inmiddels bekend fenomeen voor marktpartijen en regelgevers, die er hun gedrag zo goed en zo kwaad als dat kan op afstemmen....

Realistic Simulation of IEEE 802.11p Channel in Mobile Vehicle to Vehicle Communication

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) is becoming an important paradigm, because of its ability to enhance safety and to mitigate congestion on road traffic scenarios. Realizing the fact that data collection scheme from in-situ test beds for large number of vehicles is always expensive and time consuming, before being employed in large scale,...

Security in NATO collective mission training - Problem analysis and solutions

We never fight alone, so we should train together! With missions being joint and combined, we also need to train that way. Given limited budgets and available resources, distributed simulation is rapidly becoming a necessity for collective mission training. However, due to the characteristics of mission simulations the protection of classified...

Detecting security attacks with SIEM: SERCO project report

The ‘Critical ICT Infrastructures’ program managed by prof. dr. ir. Rob Kooij is a strategic research program that aims to improve the quality of ICT infrastructures. The red line for all projects within this program is quality and dependability for all information and communication technology. Especially for the Dutch national vital...

High-resolution video, more is more?

In this paper, we describe an approach and the translation of the outcomes of our market overview on the technical development that we implemented for the FascinatE project. The approach combines market insights and competitive intelligence with technical insights to define the position of the FascinatE project in todays and future markets. The...

Towards Multi-Level Security for NATO Collective Mission Training – a White Paper

Distributed simulation is rapidly becoming a necessity for collective mission training. With missions being joint and combined, we will never fight alone. Thus we need to train together, within and between nations. However, in any such scenario it is likely that some or all of the information may be classified at some level and need protection,...

Scheduling strategies for LTE uplink with flow behaviour analysis

Long Term Evolution (LTE) is a cellular technology developed to support diversity of data traffic at potentially high rates. It is foreseen to extend the capacity and improve the performance of current 3G cellular networks. A key mechanism in the LTE traffic handling is the packet scheduler, which is in charge of allocating resources to active...