We develop a probabilistic variant of k-anonymous microaggregation which we term p-probabilistic resorting to a statistical model of respondent participation in order to aggregate quasi-identifiers in such a manner that ...

In a question-driven phone assistance system, if the answer to one question decides the next one, hiding user's answers is not enough to protect her privacy. In this work, we explore an audio streaming mechanism where the ...

A key aspect in the design of smart cities is, undoubtedly, a plan for the efficient management of utilities, enabled by technologies such as those entailing smart metering of the residential consumption of electricity, ...

Whilst security is generally perceived as an important constituent of communication systems, this paper offers a viable security-communication-tradeoff particularly tailored to Advanced Metering Infrastructures (AMIs) in ...

The security of the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) overlays networks has been questioned for years. Many works have been proposed to provide secure routing, anonymity, reputation systems, confidentiality, etc. However, the identity ...

Recently there have been a noticeable growth of ad-hoc environments with peer-to-peer relations. Such environments decentralize the services in order to share their cost between their members. As a result, a decentralized ...

Los profesores de la asignatura Transmisión de Datos, impartida en la UPC, hemos elaborado este libro de problemas resueltos representativos de la misma. El libro se estructura en tres temas: codificación de fuente, ...