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    • 3D point cloud video segmentation based on interaction analysis 

      Lin, Xiao; Casas Pla, Josep Ramon; Pardàs Feliu, Montse (Springer, 2016)
      Conference lecture
      Open Access
      Given the widespread availability of point cloud data from consumer depth sensors, 3D segmentation becomes a promising building block for high level applications such as scene understanding and interaction analysis. It ...
    • 3D point cloud video segmentation based on interaction analysis 

      Lin, Xiao; Casas Pla, Josep Ramon; Pardàs Feliu, Montse (Springer, 2016-11-24)
      Part of book or chapter of book
      Open Access
      Given the widespread availability of point cloud data from consumer depth sensors, 3D segmentation becomes a promising building block for high level applications such as scene understanding and interaction analysis. It ...
    • 3D point cloud video segmentation oriented to the analysis of interactions 

      Lin, Xiao; Casas Pla, Josep Ramon; Pardàs Feliu, Montse (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016)
      Conference lecture
      Open Access
      Given the widespread availability of point cloud data from consumer depth sensors, 3D point cloud segmentation becomes a promising building block for high level applications such as scene understanding and interaction ...
    • 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)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      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 ...
    • 5G-enabled edge deployments for emerging real-time services 

      Rojas Pérez, Imanol (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2024-05-13)
      Master thesis
      Open Access
      Covenantee:   Barcelona Supercomputing Center
      This thesis examines the integration of 5G technology with edge computing to address the challenge of reducing latency in telecommunications, towards enhancing performance for real-time applications such as autonomous ...
    • A cloud driven dynamic pricing system for retail companies 

      Galán Montero, José Juan (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-01-28)
      Master thesis
      Restricted access - author's decision
      This project develops a dynamic pricing framework over a cloud based architecture, being scalable and highly configurable, considering the great cardinality of the solution in terms of the analytic models to build and ...
    • A Cloud robotics architecture to foster individual child partnership in medical facilities 

      Navarro, Joan; Sancho-Asensio, Andreu; Garriga, Carles; Albo-Canals, J.; Ortiz-Villajos Maroto, Julio; Raya Giner, Cristóbal; Angulo Bahón, Cecilio; Miralles, David (2013)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      Robots and automation systems have become a valuable partner in several facets of human life: from learning and teaching, to daily working, including health monitoring and assistance. So far, these appealing robot-based ...
    • A cloud-enabled small cell architecture in 5G networks for broadcast/multicast services 

      kourtis, Michail-Alexandros; Blanco, Begoña; Pérez Romero, Jordi; Makris, Dimitris; McGrath, Michael J.; Xilouris, George; Munaretto, Daniele; Solozabal, Ruben; Sanchoyerto, Aitor; Giannoulakis, Ioannis; Kafetzakis, Emmanouil; Riccobene, Vincenzo; Jimeno, Elisa; Kourtis, Anastasios; Ferrús Ferré, Ramón Antonio; Liberal, Fidel; Koumaras, Harilaos; Kostopoulos, Alexandros; Chochliouros, Ioannis (2019-06-01)
      Article
      Open Access
      The evolution of 5G suggests that communication networks become sufficiently flexible to handle a wide variety of network services from various domains. The virtualization of small cells as envisaged by 5G, allows enhanced ...
    • A comparison study of different algorithms for energy-aware placement of virtual machines 

      Olvera, Alex; Xhafa Xhafa, Fatos (Springer, 2018)
      Conference report
      Restricted access - publisher's policy
      Cloud Computing services are essential to modern society. The increasing number of people and organisations using these types of services results in a higher demand in datacenters, which in turn, is raising energy consumption ...
    • 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)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      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 democratic Grid: collaboration, sharing and computing for everyone 

      Krishnaswamy, Ruby; Navarro Moldes, Leandro; Vlassov, Vladimir (IOS Press, 2008-10)
      Conference lecture
      Open Access
      This paper presents an integrated vision, architecture, middleware and applications of a public and large scale Grid for everyone: supporting collaboration for groups of people who can interact and share work and share or ...
    • A first look into Alexa’s interaction security 

      Castell Uroz, Ismael; Marrugat Plaza, Xavier; Solé Pareta, Josep; Barlet Ros, Pere (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2019)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      With a rapidly increasing market of millions of devices, the intelligent virtual assistants (IVA) have become a new vector available to exploit security breaches. In this work we approach the third revision of the Amazon ...
    • A fog based approach for hazards differentiation in an IIoT scenario 

      Moradbeikie, Azin; Jamshidi, Kamal; Bohlooli, Ali; García Almiñana, Jordi; Masip Bruin, Xavier (2020)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      Industrial control systems (ICS) are applied in many critical infrastructures. Reducing reconfiguration time after hazard leads to safety improvement, so it is one of the most important objectives in these systems. Hazards ...
    • A Framework for allocation of IoT devices to the fog service providers in strategic setting 

      Bandyopadhyay, Anjan; Xhafa Xhafa, Fatos; Mallik, Saurav; Krause, Paul; Mukhopadhyay, Sajal; Kumar Singh, Vikash; Maulik, Ujjwal (Springer, 2019)
      Conference report
      Restricted access - publisher's policy
      In the IoT+Fog+Cloud architecture, with the ever increasing growth of IoT devices, allocation of IoT devices to the Fog service providers will be challenging and needs to be addressed properly in both the strategic and ...
    • A generic architecture for Demand Response: the All4Green approach 

      Basmadjian, Robert; Lovasz, Gergö; Beck, Michael Till; de Meer, Hermann; Hesselbach Serra, Xavier; Botero Vega, Juan Felipe; Klingert, Sonja; Pérez Ortega, María; López, Juan Carlos; Stam, Andries; van Krevelen, Rick; di Girolamo, marco (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013)
      Conference report
      Restricted access - publisher's policy
      Demand Response is a mechanism used in power grids to manage customers’ power consumption during critical situations (e.g. power shortage). Data centres are good candidates to participate in Demand Response programs due ...
    • A grid representation for distributed virtual environments 

      Morillo, P.; Fernández, M.; Pelechano Gómez, Núria (2004)
      Conference report
      Restricted access - publisher's policy
      Fast Internet connections and the widespread use of high performance graphic cards are making Distributed Virtual Environments (DVE) very common nowadays. The architecture and behavior of these systems are very similar to ...
    • A hash-based naming strategy for the fog-to-cloud computing paradigm 

      Gómez Cárdenas, Alejandro; Masip Bruin, Xavier; Marín Tordera, Eva; Kahvazadeh, Sarang; García Almiñana, Jordi (2018)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      The growth of the Internet connected devices population has fuelled the emergence of new distributed computer paradigms; one of these paradigms is the so-called Fog-to-Cloud (F2C) computing, where resources (compute, ...
    • A holistic service provisioning solution for federated cloud infrastructures 

      Kertesz, Attila; Kecskemeti, Gabor; Nemeth, Zsolt; Oriol Hilari, Marc; Franch Gutiérrez, Javier (2012)
      Conference lecture
      Open Access
      Cloud Computing builds on the latest achievements of diverse research areas, such as Grid Computing, Service-oriented computing, business process modeling and virtualization. As this new computing paradigm was mostly lead ...
    • 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)
      Article
      Open Access
      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)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      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 ...