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  • Knowledge transfer for collaborative misbehavior detection in untrusted vehicular environments 

    Sedar, Mohottige Roshan Madhusanka; Kalalas, Charalampos; Dini, Paolo; Vazquez-Gallego, Francisco; Alonso Zárate, Jesús; Alonso Zárate, Luis Gonzaga (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024-09-17)
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    Vehicular mobility underscores the need for collaborative misbehavior detection at the vehicular edge. However, locally trained misbehavior detection models are susceptible to adversarial attacks that aim to deliberately ...
  • Cloud-native orchestration framework for network slice federation across administrative domains in 5G/6G mobile networks 

    Dalgitsis, Michail; Cadenelli, Nicola; Serrano, Maria A.; Bartzoudis, Nikolaos; Alonso Zárate, Luis Gonzaga; Antonopoulos, Angelos (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024-02-08)
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    The recent advancements in cellular Vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) and edge computing paradigms foster novel use cases for connected and automated vehicles that come with strict performance requirements. These guarantees ...
  • Improving recognition of Sub-GHz LPWANs: a deep learning approach with the UPC-LPWAN-1 dataset 

    Maya Olalla, Edgar; García Lozano, Mario; Pérez Díaz de Cerio, David; Ruiz Boqué, Sílvia (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024)
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    Deep neural networks (DNNs) have emerged as an effective technique for modulation/system recognition but rely heavily on representative datasets. This paper introduces the “UPC-LPWAN-1” dataset, a comprehensive collection ...
  • Relaying solutions for 5G-IoT applications: a 3GPP perspective 

    Narayanan, Subin; Liberg, Olof; Höglund, Andreas; Tsolkas, Dimitris; Alonso Zárate, Luis Gonzaga; Passas, Nikos; Merakos, Lazaros (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024-06)
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    In the 5G and beyond era, the Internet of things (IoT) requires widespread coverage in highly dense and hard-to-reach areas. To achieve this, the use of relaying as an energy-efficient mechanism to assist mobile networks ...
  • SliceOps: Explainable MLOps for streamlined automation-native 6G networks 

    Rezazadeh, Farhad; Chergui, Hatim; Alonso Zárate, Luis Gonzaga; Verikoukis, Christos (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2023-08-25)
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    Sixth-generation (6G) network slicing is the backbone of future communications systems. It inaugurates the era of extreme ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (xURLLC) and pervades the digitalization of the various ...
  • A comprehensive survey of V2X cybersecurity mechanisms and future research paths 

    Sedar, Mohottige Roshan Madhusanka; Kalalas, Charalampos; Vazquez Gallego, Francisco; Alonso Zárate, Luis Gonzaga; Alonso Zarate, Jesús (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2023-01-26)
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    Recent advancements in vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication have notably improved existing transport systems by enabling increased connectivity and driving autonomy levels. The remarkable benefits of V2X connectivity ...
  • PSM-DMO: power save mode and discontinuous BLE mesh operation 

    Hernandez Solana, Angela; Pérez Díaz de Cerio, David; García Lozano, Mario; Valdovinos, Antonio; Valenzuela González, José Luis (2022-08-04)
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    The Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) mesh profile, standardized by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), has an increasing interest in IoT solutions. However, the standard assumes that relay and friend nodes should be ...
  • On the use of sniffers for spectrum occupancy measurements of Bluetooth low energy primary channels 

    Valenzuela Pérez, Ana; García Lozano, Mario; Valenzuela González, José Luis; Pérez Díaz de Cerio, David; Hernandez Solana, Angela; Valdovinos, Antonio (Elsevier, 2022-08-01)
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    The methods usually employed to measure channel occupancy show limitations in the context of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) advertisements. We propose and analyze the use of BLE sniffers as light and portable low-cost spectrum ...
  • Demand-aware cooperative content caching in 5G/6G networks with MEC-enabled edges 

    Ayenew, Tadege Mihretu; Xenakis, Dionysis; Alonso Zárate, Luis Gonzaga; Passas, Nikos; Merakos, Lazaros (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022-09)
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    Today, billions of smart devices are interconnected via wireless networks, leading to large volumes of video contents circulating through the bandwidth-limited backhaul. This causes network performance to deteriorate. As ...
  • Energy and cost footprint reduction for 5G and beyond with flexible radio access network 

    Guerra Gómez, Rolando; Ruiz Boqué, Sílvia; García Lozano, Mario; Saeed, Umar (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021-10-15)
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    This paper focuses on Beyond fifth generation (B5G) non-linear data modeling and decision-making tools to optimize cost reduction versus coverage-QoS trade-off, in other words, the number of active Remote Radio Heads or ...
  • Speeding up bluetooth mesh 

    Pérez Díaz de Cerio, David; Hernandez Solana, Angela; García Lozano, Mario; Valdovinos Bardají, Antonio; Valenzuela González, José Luis (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021-01-01)
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    Bluetooth has constantly evolved from its cradle in 1997 to the last 5.2 version in 2020. With each update and amendment, it has gained in speed, range, and versatility. One of the latest introductions was the Bluetooth ...
  • BMADS: BLE mesh asynchronous dynamic scanning 

    Pérez Díaz de Cerio, David; Valenzuela González, José Luis; García Lozano, Mario; Hernandez Solana, Angela; Valdovinos, Antonio (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021-02-15)
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    The Bluetooth low-energy (BLE) mesh profile, currently standardized by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), assumes that friend and relay nodes should be continuously scanning the channel ready to receive any incoming ...

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