Aquest treball té com a objectiu analitzar la situació actual de la Internet, per proposar noves alternatives i dibuixar un possible camí cap a la Internet del Futur. Aquesta anàlisi vol ser un punt de partida, un document ...

The Internet of Things (IoT) intends to interconnect massive amount of heterogeneous, smart devices, with the goal of interweaving the virtual world with the physical world. Smart Cities are typical IoT application domains, ...

We present an analytical model for the maximum throughput of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), considering the presence of uncorrelated bit errors and the impact of a key BLE parameter that defines the time between the start ...

Presence information was the key enabler of the great success of instant messaging applications. This information was first limited to simple binary states such as online, offline, or busy. However, it is currently evolving ...

Energy-efficient communication is one of the main concerns of wireless sensor networks nowadays. A commonly employed approach for achieving energy efficiency has been the use of duty-cycled operation of the radio, where ...

Nowadays, several systems are available for outdoor location (i.e GPS, cellular networks based…). However, there is no proper location system for indoor scenarios. The technique presented in this paper proposes the use of ...

The Pervasive Computing field is almost always addressed from application, middleware, sensing or Human Computer Interaction perspective. Thus, solutions are usually designed at application level or involve developing new ...