Inter-network interoperability for heterogeneous networks at the tactical edge

Combining several mobile networks in order to build a federated network at the tactical edge is a challenge because of the high degree of mobility and limited data capacity available in these networks. Providing the different partners in a coalition with direct connectivity at the tactical edge can be beneficial since it allows for better...

Hybrid Timeslot Design for IEEE 802.15.4 TSCH to Support Heterogeneous WSNs

The IEEE 802.15.4 Time-Slotted Channel Hopping (TSCH) protocol defines two types of timeslots for communications, namely dedicated and shared timeslots. An upper layer in the protocol stack uses these timeslots to design a communication schedule for the network links, based on the required bandwidth for each link. Considering a network with time...

The angloval tactical military scenario and experimentation environment

The Anglova scenario is designed to support experimentation with tactical networking environments and provides node mobility and network connectivity for a realistic battalion-sized military operation consisting of three vignettes, including the deployment of armored vehicles, surveillance of the maritime domain and an urban operation with a...

Performance assessment and Self-Organisation of Virtual Sectorisation in a realistic LTE network

Active Antenna Systems (AAS) technology is one of several advanced features that enable a mobile network operator to cost-efficiently increase its network capacity to cope with the exponential mobile data traffic growth and the ever more demanding performance requirements. AAS can be exploited to perform e.g. Virtual Sectorisation (ViS), i.e....

SON for LTE-WLAN access network selection: Design and performance

Mobile network operators (MNOs) are deploying carrier-grade Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) as an important complementary system to cellular networks. Access network selection (ANS) between cellular and WLAN is an essential component to improve network performance and user quality-of-service (QoS) via controlled loading of these systems. In...

Policy-based SON management demonstrator

A Self-Organising Network (SON) represents an approach where the optimisation of a mobile radio network is automated through a set of independently operating SON functions. These SON functions, however, require to be configured in order to allow for an optimised network performance with respect to technical objectives defined by the network...

Performance of WLAN RSS-based SON for LTE/WLAN access network selection

Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) are integrating carrier-grade Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) to cellular networks to improve network performance and user experience. Access network selection (ANS) between cellular and WLAN plays a key role in the integration. Given the complexity of heterogeneous networks characterized by multiple network...

Path capacity estimation in heterogeneous, best-effort, small-scale IP networks

Current QoS solutions for IP networks are usually based on traffic classification and need to be supported by every device in the end-to-end path to be effective. This is relatively expensive for home networks. Alternative techniques have been proposed that require end-user services to pragmatically adapt their properties to the actual condition...

Remote discovery and management of end-user devices in heterogeneous private networks

End-to-end broadband service delivery requires remote management of devices in the home network, beyond the home gateway (HG). The service provider can only put limited requirements to these of-the-shelf devices, and therefore has to make intelligent use of their given control and management protocols. The authors propose architectures for the...

Heterogeneous protection in regular and complete bi-partite networks

We examine the influence of heterogeneous curing rates for a SIS model, used for malware spreading on the Internet, information dissemination in unreliable networks, and propagation of failures in networks. The topology structures considered are the regular graph which represents the homogenous network structures and the complete bi-partite...

Adaptive RD Optimized Hybrid Sound Coding

Traditionally, sound codecs have been developed with a particular application in mind, their performance being optimized for specific types of input signals, such as speech or audio (music), and application constraints, such as low bit rate, high quality, or low delay. There is, however, an increasing need for more generic sound codecs, created...