Fundació Privada i2CAT, Internet i Innovació Digital a Catalunya: Recent submissions
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DEMONSTRATIONS OF DIRECT-TO-SATELLITE IOT FOR EARTH OBSERVATIONAPPLICATIONS: REMOTE ROAD TRAFFIC MONITORING WITH IMAGING
The escalating volume of road users and the increase onsafety demands by the governmental institutions, such as theEU, highlights the need for more widespread and advancedtraffic monitoring systems. Despite the ...
An Energy-Efficient Distributed Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation Algorithm for Passive Optical Access Networks
The rapid deployment of passive optical access networks (PONs) increases the global energy consumption of networking infrastructure. This paper focuses on the minimization of energy consumption in Ethernet PONs (EPONs). ...
5G-CLARITY: 5G-Advanced Private Networks Integrating 5GNR, Wi-Fi and LiFi
The future of the manufacturing industry highlydepends on digital systems that transform existing productionand monitoring systems into autonomous systems fulfilling strin-gent requirements in terms of availability, ...
Are 5G Networks, and the Neutral Host Model, the Solution to the Shrinking Telecom Market?
5G networks will offer advanced functionalities and features such as high throughput, low latency, security and reliability by leveraging technologi-cal advances like network virtualization, edge computing and network ...
Disruptive approaches for subtitling in immersive environments
The Immersive Accessibility Project (ImAc) explores how accessibility services can be integrated with 360o video as well as new methods for enabling universal access to immersive content. ImAc is focused on inclusivity and ...
A use case of shared 5G backhaul segment planning in an urban area
This work presents a case study for the network planning of a 5G backhaul in a dense urban area. The study is fed by estimated population density data and real geographical layout coming from a Spanish city (Cartagena, ...
Introducing Terrestrial Satellite Resource Orchestration Layer
Satellite communications is an essential building block of 5G technology to ensure delivery of 5G promises such as ubiquitous connectivity, enhance mobile broadband (eMBB) and massive machine type communication (mMTC). ...
Social Viewing in Cinematic Virtual Reality: Challenges and Opportunities
Cinematic Virtual Reality (CVR) has been increasing in popularity in the last years. However, viewers can feel isolated when watching 360° movies with a Head-Mounted Display. Since watching movies is a social experience ...
Intelligent Sensors for Sustainable Food and Drink Manufacturing
Food and drink is the largest manufacturing sector worldwide and has significant environmental impact in terms of resource use, emissions, and waste. However, food and drink manufacturers are restricted in addressing these ...
Toward Hyper-realistic and Interactive Social VR Experiences in Live TV Scenarios
Social Virtual Reality (VR) allows multiple distributed users getting together in shared virtual environments to socially interact and collaborate. This article explores the applicability and potential of Social VR in the ...
Accessibility in 360° video players
Accessibility is a key requirement for any multimedia tool and application. With the current trend towards immersive experiences, such as Virtual Reality (VR) and 360o video, it becomes key that these environments are ...
On Alleviating Cell Overload in Vehicular Scenarios
Fifth Generation (5G) networks will support countless new applications and new business models. One of the 5G paradigms is network slicing, which enables the integration of multiple logical networks each one tailored to ...
Network Slicing-aware NFV Orchestration for 5G Service Platforms
The advent of 5G promises to unleash highly pervasive network coverage and density, increased data rate and capacity, optimized instantiation of virtualized resources in a multi-tenant and multi-service network capable of ...
A P4-enabled RINA interior router for Software-Defined Data Centres
The lack of high-performance RINA implementations to date makes it hard to experiment with RINA as an underlay networking fabric solution for different types of networks, and to assess RINA's benefits in practice on scenarios ...
Distributed-to-Centralized Data Management: A New Sense of Large-Scale ICT Management of Smart City IoT Networks
Modern cities are equipped with various information and communications technology (ICT) resources including Internet of Things (IoT) devices, computing platforms, and data storage media. Data are one of the most valuable ...
Understanding the impact of the PC5 Resource Grid design on the capacity and efficiency of LTE-V2X in vehicular networks
Vehicular communications will foster mobility services and enable mass adoption of future autonomous vehicles, interchanging huge amount of data acquired from vehicles' sensors. 3GPP Release 14 presents the first standard ...
Leading Innovations Towards 5G: Europe's Perspective in 5G Infrastructure Public-Private Partnership (5G-PPP)
The paper elaborates on the technological and architectural innovations researched and developed by 5G-PPP Phase 1 projects and covering innovation areas such as 5G system design and evaluation, novel air interfaces, network ...
ImmersiaTV: an end-to-end toolset to enable customizable and immersive multi-screen TV experiences
ImmersiaTV is a H2020 European project that targets the creation of novel forms of TV content production, delivery and consumption to enable customizable and immersive multi-screen TV experiences. The goal is not only to ...
AI-assisted Affective Computing and Spatial Audio for Interactive Multimodal Virtual Environments
This paper contains the research proposal of Juan Antonio De Rus that was presented at the MMSys 2022 doctoral symposium. The use of virtual reality (VR) is growing every year. With the normalization of remote work it is ...
RINA-based virtual networking solution for distributed VNFs: Prototype and Benchmarking
The decoupling of the network functions from the hardware they run on has become a common practice nowadays. Complex network services made up of multiple Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) can be instantiated over the ...
