SISCOM - Smart Services for Information Systems and Communication Networks

 

The SISCOM (Smart Services for Information Systems and Communication Networks) research group focuses on technologies that make it possible to provide intelligent services for information services and communication networks. More specifically, the interests of the group are mainly focused on two areas:

1. Communication networks: We work mostly on wireless networks, either with infrastructure or adhoc and mesh. With the aim of improving their performance, telematics engineering techniques are used. Also, routing protocols are designed and evaluated to guarantee the quality of service required to support intelligent services.

2. Security and privacy of the information: We work on the development of information protection techniques, especially on anonymization of databases to protect users' privacy when these data are being analysed by third parties. These techniques allow us to protect communications and personal information in data analysis processes.



Application examples: Anonymization of medical databases, protection of user privacy in Web browsing, electronic voting, communication in wireless networks without infrastructure (vehicle adhoc networks, mesh networks, mobile adhoc networks), design of efficient routing protocols for wireless infrastructureless networks, personal networks.

Social impact: Health sector, administration, electric operators, telecommunications service operators, smart city services, electrical vehicle, autonomous vehicle.

Recent Submissions

  • Heuristic methods in geographical routing protocols for VANETs 

    Urquiza Aguiar, Luis; Almeida, Daniel; Tripp Barba, Carolina; Aguilar Igartua, Mónica (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2015)
    Conference report
    Restricted access - publisher's policy
    This paper proposes different local\hyph search heuristics to improve the performance of geographical routing protocols in VANET networks, which typically relies the selection of the next node only on the best candidate. ...

  • Mean waiting time in the M/H2/s queue: application to mobile communications Systems 

    Barceló Arroyo, Francisco; Paradells Aspas, Josep; Aguilar Igartua, Mónica (Wissenschaft & Technik, 1997)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    In this paper a procedure to approximately calculate the mean waiting time in the M/H2/s queue is presented. The approximation is heuristic although based in the intuitive symmetry between the deterministic and balanced ...

  • Multi channel allocation and congestion control for smart grid neighborhood area networks 

    Astudillo León, Juan Pablo; Cruz Llopis, Luis Javier de la (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2018)
    Conference report
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    The evolution of traditional electricity distribution infrastructures towards Smart Grid networks has generated the need to carry out new research. There are many fields that have attracted the attention of researchers, ...

  • A joint multi-path and multi-channel protocol for traffic routing in smart grid neighborhood area networks 

    Astudillo León, Juan Pablo; Cruz Llopis, Luis Javier de la (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2018-11-20)
    Article
    Open Access
    In order to improve the management mechanisms of the electric energy transport infrastructures, the smart grid networks have associated data networks that are responsible for transporting the necessary information between ...

  • Incremental k-Anonymous microaggregation in large-scale electronic surveys with optimized scheduling 

    Rebollo Monedero, David; Forné Muñoz, Jorge; Soriano Ibáñez, Miguel; Hernández Baigorri, César (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018-10-15)
    Article
    Open Access
    Improvements in technology have led to enormous volumes of detailed personal information made available for any number of statistical studies. This has stimulated the need for anonymization techniques striving to attain a ...

  • Does k-anonymous microaggregation affect machine-learned macrotrends? 

    Rodríguez Hoyos, Ana; Estrada Jiménez, José; Rebollo Monedero, David; Parra Arnau, Javier; Forné Muñoz, Jorge (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018-05-16)
    Article
    Open Access
    n the era of big data, the availability of massive amounts of information makes privacy protection more necessary than ever. Among a variety of anonymization mechanisms, microaggregation is a common approach to satisfy the ...

  • Digital hyper-transparency: leading e-government against privacy 

    Rodríguez Hoyos, Ana; Estrada Jiménez, José; Urquiza Aguiar, Luis; Parra Arnau, Javier; Forné Muñoz, Jorge (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    For a long time, the Internet and web technologies have supported a more fluid interaction between public institutions and citizens through e-government. With this spirit, several public services are being offered online. ...

  • Transient analysis of idle time in VANETs using Markov-reward models 

    Martín Faus, Isabel Victoria; Urquiza Aguiar, Luis; Aguilar Igartua, Mónica; Guérin-Lassous, Isabelle (2018-02-10)
    Article
    Open Access
    The development of analytical models to analyze the behavior of vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) is a challenging aim. Adaptive methods are suitable for many algorithms (e.g., choice of forwarding paths, dynamic resource ...

  • 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 (2017-01-01)
    Article
    Open Access
    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 ...

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