Since the advent of the first IEEE 802.11 standard, many research efforts have been spent on evaluating different aspects of the specification. In this paper, we present a new method to predict the capacity of a multicell ...

Information and communications technology (ICT) engineers play a key part in our society's digitization process. To foster that role, the Castelldefels School of Telecommunications and Aerospace Engineering (EETAC) of UPC's ...

The growth of WLANs and hence, the increase of mobile data terminals, bring about a visible proliferation of location-based services. This scenario also carries the need for location management systems that are device ...

The continuous growth of IEEE 802.11 wireless local area networks (WLAN) brings the benefit of a high speed wireless access to packet networks, such as Internet. But it also entails the successive appearance of new ...

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) has gained very high momentum, as witnessed by its widespread presence in smartphones, wearables and other consumer electronics devices. This fact can be leveraged to carry out opportunistic ...

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) Working Group has developed the Static Context Header Compression (SCHC) framework to enable IPv6 over LPWAN. In order to support 1280-byte ...

Vivimos completamente rodeados por una miríada de dispositivos electrónicos interconectados, que a su vez originan nuevos servicios y nuevas formas de entender y establecer las relaciones sociales. Nuevas palabras y conceptos ...