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    • 3MRP+: an improved multimetric geographical routing protocol for VANETs 

      Lemus Cárdenas, Leticia; Mezher, Ahmad Mohamad; López Márquez, Nely Patricia; Barbecho Bautista, Pablo Andrés; Cárdenas Barrera, Julián; Aguilar Igartua, Mónica (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2018)
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      The design of routing protocols in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) is fundamental to achieve a high packets’ delivery ratio. Routing protocols whose operation considers the nodes’ positions use updated routing information ...
    • A dynamic multimetric weights distribution in a multipath routing protocol using video-streaming services over MANETs 

      Mezher, Ahmad Mohamad; Iza, Cristhian; Tripp Barba, Carolina; Aguilar Igartua, Mónica (2015)
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      Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are infrastructureless networks formed by wireless mobile devices. Routing in MANETs is a process where the best path will be selected so that packets will be forwarded. When a MANET ...
    • A multi-user game-theoretical multipath routing protocol to send video-warning messages over mobile ad hoc networks 

      Mezher, Ahmad Mohamad; Aguilar Igartua, Mónica; Cruz Llopis, Luis Javier de la; Pallarès Segarra, Esteve; Tripp Barba, Carolina; Urquiza Aguiar, Luis; Fornés Guardia, Jordi; Sanvicente Gargallo, Emilio (2015-04-17)
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      The prevention of accidents is one of the most important goals of ad hoc networks in smart cities. When an accident happens, dynamic sensors (e.g., citizens with smart phones or tablets, smart vehicles and buses, etc.) ...
    • A multimetric predictive ANN-based routing protocol for vehicular ad hoc networks 

      Lemus Cárdenas, Leticia; Mezher, Ahmad Mohamad; Barbecho Bautista, Pablo Andrés; Astudillo León, Juan Pablo; Aguilar Igartua, Mónica (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021-06-11)
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      Vehicular networks support intelligent transportation system (ITS) to improve drivers’ safety and traffic efficiency on the road by exchanging traffic-related information between vehicles and also between vehicles and ...
    • A multimetric, map-aware routing protocol for VANETs in urban areas 

      Tripp Barba, Carolina; Urquiza Aguiar, Luis; Aguilar Igartua, Mónica; Rebollo Monedero, David; Cruz Llopis, Luis Javier de la; Mezher, Ahmad Mohamad; Aguilar-Calderón, José Alfonso (2014-01-28)
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      In recent years, the general interest in routing for vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) has increased notably. Many proposals have been presented to improve the behavior of the routing decisions in these very changeable ...
    • A novel dynamic reputation-based source routing protocol for mobile ad hoc networks 

      Guaya, Lenin; Pallarès Segarra, Esteve; Mezher, Ahmad Mohamad; Forné Muñoz, Jorge (2019-03)
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      Routing in mobile ad hoc networks is based on the cooperation of the network’s nodes. The presence of selfish nodes that do not cooperate in this task drastically reduces the number of delivered packets. In order to find ...
    • A probability-based multimetric routing protocol for vehicular ad hoc networks in urban scenarios 

      Lemus Cárdenas, Leticia; Mezher, Ahmad Mohamad; Barbecho Bautista, Pablo Andrés; Aguilar Igartua, Mónica (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019-12-20)
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      Vehicular Ad hoc Networks have received considerable attention in recent years and are considered as one of the most promising ad-hoc network technologies for intelligent transport systems. Vehicular Ad hoc Networks have ...
    • Adaptive video-streaming dissemination in realistic highway vehicular ad-hoc networks 

      Iza Paredes, Cristhian; Mezher, Ahmad Mohamad; Aguilar Igartua, Mónica (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2016)
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      The dissemination of video information contents migth enhance the performances of safety-related applications in vehicular ah-hoc networks (VANETs). A major problem concerns the high sensitivity of the compressed video ...
    • Available bandwidth estimation in GPSR for VANETs 

      Tripp Barba, Carolina; Aguilar Igartua, Mónica; Urquiza Aguiar, Luis; Mezher, Ahmad Mohamad; Zaldivar Colado, Aníbal; Guérin-Lassous, Isabelle (ACM, 2013)
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      This paper proposes an adaptation of the collision probability used in the measure of the available bandwidth designed for Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) and which is described in ABE [12]. Instead, we propose a new ABE+ ...
    • Available bandwidth-aware routing in urban vehicular ad-hoc networks 

      Tripp Barba, Carolina; Mezher, Ahmad Mohamad; Aguilar Igartua, Mónica; Guérin-Lassous, Isabelle; Sarr, Cheikh (2012)
      Conference lecture
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      Vehicular communication for intelligent transportation systems will provide safety, comfort for passengers, and more efficient travels. This type of network has the advantage to warn drivers of any event occurred in the ...
    • Coherent, automatic address resolution for vehicular ad hoc networks 

      Urquiza Aguiar, Luis; Tripp Barba, Carolina; Rebollo Monedero, David; Mezher, Ahmad Mohamad; Aguilar Igartua, Mónica; Forné Muñoz, Jorge; Estrada Jiménez, José Antonio (2017-01-01)
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      The interest in vehicular communications has increased notably. In this paper, the use of the address resolution (AR) procedures is studied for vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). We analyse the poor performance of AR ...
    • Computational improvements in parallelized k-anonymous microaggregation of large databases 

      Mezher, Ahmad Mohamad; Garcia Alvarez, Alejandro; Rebollo Monedero, David; Forné Muñoz, Jorge (2017)
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      The technical contents of this paper fall within the field of statistical disclosure control (SDC), which concerns the postprocessing of the demographic portion of the statistical results of surveys containing sensitive ...
    • Contributions to provide a QoS-aware self-configured framework for video-streaming services over ad hoc networks 

      Mezher, Ahmad Mohamad (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2016-04-22)
      Doctoral thesis
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      Ad hoc networks have attracted much attention from the research community over the last years and important technical advances have risen as a consequence. These networks are foreseen as an important kind of next generation ...
    • Dataset 5Routingmetrics VANET BCN 

      Lemus Cárdenas, Leticia; Mezher, Ahmad Mohamad; Aguilar Igartua, Mónica (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-10-18)
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    • Efficient k-anonymous microaggregation of multivariate numerical data via principal component analysis 

      Rebollo-Monedero, David; Mezher, Ahmad Mohamad; Casanova, Xavier; Forné Muñoz, Jorge; Soriano Ibáñez, Miguel (2019-07-09)
      Article
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      k-Anonymous microaggregation is a widespread technique to address the problem of protecting the privacy of the respondents involved beyond the mere suppression of their identifiers, in applications where preserving the ...
    • Evaluating video dissemination in realistic urban vehicular ad-hoc networks 

      Iza Paredes, Cristhian; Mezher, Ahmad Mohamad; Aguilar Igartua, Mónica (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2016)
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      Video content delivery for vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) is envisioned to be of high benefit for road safety, traffic management as well as for providing value-added vehicle services. In this paper, we evaluate five ...
    • Game-theoretical design of an adaptive distributed dissemination protocol for VANETs 

      Iza Paredes, Cristhian; Mezher, Ahmad Mohamad; Aguilar Igartua, Mónica; Forné Muñoz, Jorge (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2018-01-01)
      Article
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      Road safety applications envisaged for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) depend largely on the dissemination of warning messages to deliver information to concerned vehicles. The intended applications, as well as some ...
    • GNB-RPL: Gaussian Naïve Bayes for RPL routing protocol in smart grid communications 

      Mezher, Ahmad Mohamad; Dueñas, Carlos Lester; Rebollo Monedero, David; Cárdenas-Barrera, Julián; Aguilar Igartua, Mónica; Meng, Julian; Castillo Guerra, Eduardo (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2023)
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      This study investigates the potential of utilizing the Gaussian Naive Bayes algorithm for enhancing the performance of the Wireless Smart Grid Networks (WSGNs). We have incorporated the Gaussian Naive Bayes algorithm into ...
    • Markov-reward based estimation of the idle-time in vehicular networks to improve multimetric routing protocols 

      Martín Faus, Isabel Victoria; Lemus Cárdenas, Leticia; Mezher, Ahmad Mohamad; Aguilar Igartua, Mónica (Elsevier, 2024-10)
      Article
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      Analyzing vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) poses a considerable challenge due to their constantly changing network topology and scarce network resources. Furthermore, defining suitable routing metrics for adaptive ...
    • Mathematically optimized, recursive prepartitioning strategies for k-anonymous microaggregation of large-scale datasets 

      Pallarès Segarra, Esteve; Rebollo-Monedero, David; Rodríguez Hoyos, Ana Fernanda; Estrada Jiménez, José Antonio; Mezher, Ahmad Mohamad; Forné Muñoz, Jorge (2019-11-11)
      Article
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      The technical contents of this work fall within the statistical disclosure control (SDC) field, which concerns the postprocessing of the demographic portion of the statistical results of surveys containing sensitive personal ...