Events agenda

8 Mar
2016

Phd Thesis defense: Analysis, Design and Experimental Evaluation of Connectivity Management in Heterogeneous Wireless Environments

María Isabel Sánchez, PhD Student, IMDEA Networks Institute & University Carlos III of Madrid
The future of network communications is mobile as user's demand for ubiquitous connectivity increases. Wireless has become the primary access technology, leading to an explosion in traffic demand. This challenges network providers to manage and configure new requirements without incrementing costs in the same amount. In addition to the growth in the use of mobile devices, there is a need to operate simultaneously different access technologies.
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25 Feb
2016

Design and Implementation of Secure Distributed Systems and Networks

Andrei Gurtov, Principal Scientist at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT) and Adjunct Professor at Aalto University, University of Helsinki and University of Oulu.
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23 Feb
2016

The ICSI Haystack: A Tool to Illuminate the Dark Side of the Mobile Ecosystem

Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Research Scientist in the Networking and Security team at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), Berkeley
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18 Feb
2016

Smart Indoor Visible Light Communications

Yeon-Ho Chung, Professor at the Department of Information and Communications Engineering, Pukyong National University (PKNU), Busan, Republic of Korea
Visible light communications are becoming a major short range wireless communication technology. Incorporating communication into existing lighting infrastructure, VLCs are potential candidate for future indoor communications.
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17 Feb
2016

I Always Feel Like Somebody’s Watching Me. Measuring Online Behavioral Advertising

Rubén Cuevas Rumin, Assistant Professor, Department of Telematics Engineering, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
Online Behavioral targeted Advertising (OBA) has risen in prominence as a method to increase the effectiveness of online advertising. OBA operates by associating tags or labels to users based on their online activity and then using these labels to target them.
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10 Feb
2016

Adopting Software-Defined Networking: Challenges and Recent Developments

Kirill Kogan, Research Assistant Professor at IMDEA Networks Institute
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8 Feb
2016

Optimization of mobile crowd-sensing and recommender system platforms

Iordanis Koutsopoulos, Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB)
The main themes of the talk are the optimization of mobile crowd-sensing and recommender system platforms from the point of view of the system designer. In the first part of the talk, we first discuss optimization of mobile crowd-sensing campaigns in terms of total expected quality for a set of tasks to be accomplished, and in terms of compensation cost to task contributors.
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5 Feb
2016

Understanding Capacity Scaling through Dense Deployments in Future Radio Access Networks

David López-Pérez, Senior Research Scientist at Bell Labs Alcatel-Lucent (ALU), Dublin, UK
Today's heterogeneous networks comprised of mostly macro cells and indoor small cells will not be able to meet the upcoming traffic demands. Indeed, it is forecasted that at least a 100x network capacity increase will be required to meet the traffic demands in 2020.
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4 Feb
2016

Mobile edge-Networking Solutions and Data Offloading Mechanisms for 5G Systems

Georgios Iosifidis, Post-doctoral Research Associate at the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Institute for Network Science (YINS), Yale University
The increasing demand for ubiquitous, high-speed and high-performance Internet access challenges the economic viability of mobile network operators which cannot cope with the rate of increase of wireless traffic. Alternate means are considered to deal with the excessive traffic demand that exploit the increase of wireless networks in unlicensed parts of the spectrum, as well as of handheld devices with multiple radio interfaces.
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1 Feb
2016

Topology and connectivity in large-scale networks

Matthias Wildemeersch, Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
Due to the surging increase in data traffic demand, operators try to enhance the coverage and network capacity by intensive spatial reuse. The limiting factor in networks with high spatial reuse is aggregate network interference, which depends strongly on the locations of the interferers.
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