The Internet has led to the creation of a digital society, where (almost) everything is
connected and is accessible from anywhere. However, despite their widespread adoption …

A new generation of Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) will make its appearance in the
market in the forthcoming years based on the amendments to the IEEE 802.11 standards …

New architectural and design approaches for radio access networks have appeared with the
introduction of network virtualization in the wireless domain. One of these approaches splits …

Software Defined Networking envisions smart centralized controllers governing the
forwarding behavior of dumb low-cost switches. But are" dumb" switches an actual strategic …

Current implementations of Internet systems are very hard to be upgraded. The ossification
of existing standards restricts the development of more advanced communication systems …

Socio-technical processes have come to the forefront of recent analysis of the open source
software development (OSSD) world. Interest in making these processes explicit is …

Industrial control systems have traditionally been built around dedicated wired solutions.
The requirements of flexibility, mobility, and cost have created a strong push toward wireless …

Though there has been a lot of interest in Visible Light Communication (VLC) in recent
years, a reference platform based on commercial off-the-shelf components is still missing …

Networking protocols are designed through long-standing and hard-working human efforts.
Machine Learning (ML)-based solutions for communication protocol design have been …

Collisions are a main cause of throughput degradation in wireless local area networks. The
current contention mechanism used in the IEEE 802.11 networks is called carrier sense …