Browsing by Author "Betzler, August"

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    • A holistic approach to ZigBee performance enhancement for home automation networks 

      Betzler, August; Gómez Montenegro, Carlos; Demirkol, Ilker Seyfettin; Paradells Aspas, Josep (2014-08-01)
      Article
      Open Access
      Wireless home automation networks are gaining importance for smart homes. In this ambit, ZigBee networks play an important role. The ZigBee specification defines a default set of protocol stack parameters and mechanisms ...

    • CoAP congestion control for the Internet of Things 

      Betzler, August; Gómez Montenegro, Carlos; Demirkol, Ilker Seyfettin; Paradells Aspas, Josep (2016-07)
      Article
      Open Access
      CoAP is a lightweight RESTful application layer protocol devised for the IoT. Operating on top of UDP, CoAP must handle congestion control by itself. The core CoAP specification defines a basic congestion control mechanism, ...

    • CoCoA+: an advanced congestion control mechanism for CoAP 

      Betzler, August; Gómez Montenegro, Carlos; Demirkol, Ilker Seyfettin; Paradells Aspas, Josep (Elsevier, 2015-10-01)
      Article
      Open Access
      The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) has been designed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Due to the limited radio channel capacities and hardware resources of such ...

    • Competition: interference-aware multi-channel cross layer protocol for energy-efficient and low-delay networking 

      Sierra Aiello, Guillermo; Demirkol, Ilker Seyfettin; Calveras Augé, Anna M.; Gómez Montenegro, Carlos; García Villegas, Eduard; Betzler, August (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2016)
      Conference lecture
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      This document aims to present the general ideas and methodology that are planned to be used for the EWSN 2016 Dependability Competition by the Wireless Networks Group of Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya. We designed, ...

    • Congestion control in reliable CoAP communication 

      Betzler, August; Gómez Montenegro, Carlos; Demirkol, Ilker Seyfettin; Paradells Aspas, Josep (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2013)
      Conference report
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      The development of IPv6 stacks for wireless constrained devices that have limited hardware resources has paved the way for many new areas of applications and protocols. The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) has been ...

    • Enabling technologies and benefits of multi-tenant multi-service 5G small cells 

      Giannoulakis, I.; Fajardo, J.O.; García Lloreda, J.; Sayyad Khodashenas, Pouria; Ruiz, Cristina; Betzler, August; Kafetzakis, E.; Pérez Romero, Jordi; Albanese, A.; Paolino, M.; Riggio, R. (2016)
      Conference report
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      In this manuscript, we present the main concepts of the 5G-PPP SESAME project dedicated to the implementation of Cloud-Enabled Small Cells (CESCs), able to support edge cloud computing in a multi-tenant, multiservice ...

    • Evaluation of advanced congestion control mechanisms for unreliable CoAP communications 

      Betzler, August; Gómez Montenegro, Carlos; Demirkol, Ilker Seyfettin (2015)
      Conference report
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      Networks of constrained devices play an important role in the Internet of Things (IoT). In such networks congestion may lead to significant performance decrease and is a recurring phenomenon given the restricted hardware ...

    • Experimental evaluation of congestion control for CoAP communications without end-to-end reliability 

      Betzler, August; Isern, Javier; Gómez Montenegro, Carlos; Demirkol, Ilker Seyfettin; Paradells Aspas, Josep (Elsevier, 2016-12-01)
      Article
      Open Access
      The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) has been designed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for Internet of Things (IoT) communications. CoAP is a lightweight, request/response-based RESTful protocol that ...

    • Improvements to end-to-end performance of low-power wireless networks 

      Betzler, August (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2015-07-07)
      Doctoral thesis
      Open Access
      Over the last decades, wireless technologies have become an important part of our daily lives. A plentitude of new types of networks based on wireless technologies have emerged, often replacing wired solutions. In this ...

    • Large-scale performance evaluation of the IETF Internet of Things protocol suite for smart city solutions 

      Isern, Javier; Betzler, August; Gómez Montenegro, Carlos; Demirkol, Ilker Seyfettin; Paradells Aspas, Josep (2015)
      Conference lecture
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      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, ...

    • Network architecture and essential features for 5G: the SESAME project approach 

      Goratti, Leonardo; Costa, Cristina E.; Pérez Romero, Jordi; Sallent Roig, Oriol; Ruiz, Cristina; Betzler, August; Sayyad Khodashenas, Pouria; Vahid, Seiamak; Nasr, Karim; Abubakar, Babangida; Whitehead, Alan; Belesioti, Maria; Chochliouros, Ioannis (Springer, 2016)
      Conference report
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      The outstanding and continuous growth of the request of mobile broadband Internet access is creating the unprecedented need to rethink most of the design paradigms of the mobile network. Such trend is accompanied by ...

    • Self-X in SESAME 

      Pérez Romero, Jordi; Sallent Roig, Oriol; Ruiz, Cristina; Betzler, August; Sayyad Khodashenas, Pouria; Vahid, Seiamak; Nasr, Karim M.; Abubakar, Babangida; Whitehead, Alan; Goratti, Leonardo (2016)
      Conference lecture
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      This paper addresses the use of Self-X functions to support Small Cell as a Service (SCaaS) provisioning in multi-tenant scenarios, as one of the main components of the SESAME project. After presenting the scenarios, ...

    • SENSEFUL: An SDN-based joint access and backhaul coordination for Dense Wi-Fi Small Cells 

      García Villegas, Eduard; Sesto Castilla, David; Zehl, Sven; Zubow, Anatolij; Betzler, August; Camps Mur, Daniel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      Dense Small Cell networks are considered the most effective way to cope with the exponential increase in mobile traffic demand expected for the upcoming years and are one of the foundations of the future 5G. However, novel ...

    • Should we use the default protocol settings for networks of constrained devices? 

      Betzler, August; Gómez Montenegro, Carlos; Demirkol, Ilker Seyfettin; Paradells Aspas, Josep (2012)
      Conference report
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      Constrained devices will play a crucial role in the Internet of Things. These devices use communication technologies which often support the formation of wireless multihop topologies. Therefore, end-to-end data transfer ...

    • SODALITE: SDN wireless backhauling for dense 4G/5G Small Cell networks 

      Betzler, August; Camps Mur, Daniel; García Villegas, Eduard; Demirkol, Ilker Seyfettin; Aleixendri, Joan Josep (2019-07-24)
      Article
      Open Access
      Dense deployments of Small Cells are key to fulfill the capacity requirements of future 5G networks. However, two roadblocks to the adoption of Small Cells are i) the limited availability and the cost of sites with wired ...