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    • 5G and the Internet of everyone: motivation, enablers, and research agenda 

      Maccari, Leonardo; Karaliopoulos, Merkouris; Koutsopoulos, Iordanis; Navarro Moldes, Leandro; Freitag, Fèlix; Lo Cigno, Renato (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)
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      As mobile broadband subscriptions grow twice as fast as the fixed ones and the Internet of Things comes forth, the 5G vision of the Internet of Everything (people, devices, and things), becomes a substantial and credible ...
    • A Data LifeCycle model for smart cities 

      Sinaeepourfard, Amir; García Almiñana, Jordi; Masip Bruin, Xavier; Marín Tordera, Eva; Yin, Xuefeng; Wang, Chao (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016)
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      Smart Cities are the most challenging and promising technological solutions for absorbing the increasing pressure of population growth, while simultaneously enforcing a sustainable economic progress as well as a higher ...
    • A lightweight service placement approach for community network micro-clouds 

      Selimi, Mennan; Cerdà Alabern, Llorenç; Freitag, Fèlix; Veiga, Luis; Sathiaseelan, Arjuna; Crowcroft, Jon (2019-03)
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      Community networks (CNs) have gained momentum in the last few years with the increasing number of spontaneously deployed WiFi hotspots and home networks. These networks, owned and managed by volunteers, offer various ...
    • A look at energy efficient system opportunities with community network clouds 

      Freitag, Fèlix; Sharifi, Leila; Khan, Muhammad Amin; Navarro Moldes, Leandro; Baig Viñas, Roger; Escrich, Pau; Veiga, Luis (CEUR-WS.org, 2014)
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      Community networking is an emerging model of a shared communication infrastructure in which communities of citizens build and own open networks. Community networks offer successfully IP-based networking to the user. In ...
    • A novel architecture for efficient fog to cloud data management in smart cities 

      Sinaeepourfard, Amir; García Almiñana, Jordi; Masip Bruin, Xavier; Marín Tordera, Eva (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017)
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      Traditional smart city resources management rely on cloud based solutions to provide a centralized and rich set of open data. The advantages of cloud based frameworks are their ubiquity, (almost) unlimited resources capacity, ...
    • A preliminary model for optimal load distribution in heterogeneous smart environments 

      García Almiñana, Jordi; Aguiló Gost, Francisco de Asis L.; Simó Mezquita, Ester; Zaragoza Monroig, M. Luisa; Masip Bruin, Xavier; LU, Yunsong; Prieto González, Andrés; Molinas Ramón, Joan (2019)
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      Smart cities are becoming popular and, with them, a plethora of resources is emerging turning into a massive concentration of computing devices. In such environments, the deployment of a smart resources management system ...
    • A proposal for the future of urban lighting: rethinking night shades 

      Eyzaguirre Kouri, Ursula (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2019-07-09)
      Master thesis
      Open Access
      Nowadays light plays a vital role in our daily life. I believe that enlightenment is fundamental for our existence, since it is linked to cultural, economic, social and political aspects of our global society. More than ...
    • A simheuristic algorithm for service placement in community networks 

      Panadero Martínez, Javier; Calvet Liñán, Laura; Bayliss, Christopher; Marques Puig, Joan Manuel; Selimi, Mennan; Freitag, Fèlix (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020)
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      The growing demand for network connectivity has boosted the number of community networks (CNs). CNs are decentralized and self-organized communication networks owned and managed at the edge by volunteers. Due to the ...
    • A two-stage multi-criteria optimization method for service placement in decentralized edge micro-clouds 

      Panadero, Javier; Selimi, Mennan; Calvet Liñán, Laura; Marques Puig, Joan Manuel; Freitag, Fèlix (Elsevier, 2021-08)
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      Community networks are becoming increasingly popular due to the growing demand for network connectivity in both rural and urban areas. Community networks are owned and managed at the edge by volunteers. Their irregular ...
    • La accesibilidad espacial en la definición de territorios inteligentes 

      Ortiz Chao, Claudia; Garnica Monroy, Rubén (Universidad de Guadalajara / Centre de Política de Sòl i Valoracions, 2007-10)
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    • Análisis de las Smart Cities: factores que las caracterizan 

      Hernández Bonel, Daniel (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2018-06-26)
      Bachelor thesis
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      Este proyecto está dividido en tres grandes bloques, un primero de carácter más teórico donde se explica el nuevo concepto emergente de las Ciudades Inteligentes y qué indicadores existen para su correcta evaluación, hay ...
    • BARCELONA & Li-Fi 

      Verdú Leal, Adrián (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2016-10)
      Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
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      Project focused on the study of the possibility of introducing the Li-Fi technology in the city of Barcelona as a pioneering example of Smart City.
    • BaseFs - Basically Acailable, Soft State, Eventually Consistent Filesystem for Cluster Management 

      Aymerich Gubern, Marc (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2016-07-13)
      Master thesis
      Open Access
      A peer-to-peer distributed filesystem for community cloud management. https://github.com/glic3rinu/basefs
    • Benefits of a coordinated fog-to-cloud resources management strategy on a smart city scenario 

      Bartoli, Andrea; Hernández Ramírez, Francisco; Val, Laura; Gorchs, Jose; Masip Bruin, Xavier; Marín Tordera, Eva; García Almiñana, Jordi; Juan Ferrer, Ana; Jukan, Admela (Springer, 2018)
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      The advent of fog computing devices as computing paradigm enriching traditional cloud computing applications, paves the way to deploy innovative services, typically not completely appropriate and well supported by cloud ...
    • BIM for urban scale and civic participation: how we have to adapt urban planning for a bottom up citizen participation system in the ICT age 

      Quevedo Medina, Ismael; Galán Moreno, Manuel J.; Rubio Royo, Enrique (Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Coimbra and e-GEO, Research Center in Geography and Regional Planning of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Nova University of Lisbon, 2011-10)
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    • Cambio del modelo de gestión del estacionamiento regulado en Barcelona 

      Cristo Cabo, Jorge Francisco (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2016-06)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      Analizar un nuevo modelo de gestión inteligente del aparcamiento en superficie "Smart Parking" en la ciudad de Barcelona. El objetivo principal será definir un cambio de modelo basado en la unificación de las zonas de ...
    • Centralized flexibility services for distribution system operators through distributed flexible resources 

      Barja Martínez, Sara; Olivella Rosell, Pol; Lloret Gallego, Pau; Villafafila Robles, Roberto (Universidad Santiago de Cali, 2019)
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      Under the context of smart grids within smart cities, increasing distributed generation, consumer empowerment and emerging flexibility services, distribution system operators could benefit by activating flexibility in ...
    • Certification protocol “Historical Small Smart Cities”: a decision support system tool for the strategic management and recovery of minor historical centers 

      Pica, Valentina (Centre de Politica de Sol i Valoracions, CPSV / Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, UPC, 2019-12)
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      La investigación en curso se presenta para la definición de un Sistema de Apoyo a la Decisión (DSS) dirigido a los órganos administrativos locales menores de las áreas internas. La herramienta, llamada Protocolo de HISMACIDAD ...
    • La ciberciudad a debate: etopía y distopía 

      Rivas Velázquez, Benjamin (Universidad de Guadalajara / Centre de Política de Sòl i Valoracions, 2007-10)
      Conference report
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    • Ciudades abiertas 

      Barceló Garcia, Miquel (2004-02)
      Article
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