Vol. 71, n° 11-12, November-December 2016
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Guest editors

Miguel Elias M. Campista, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Rafael Laufer, Nokia Bell Labs, Homdel, USA
Pedro B. Velloso, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Abbas Jamalipour, University of Sydney, Australia

Editorial

Software networks

Miguel Elias M. Campista, Rafael Laufer, Pedro B. Velloso, Abbas Jamalipour

Network function virtualization: through the looking-glass

Anandatirtha Nandugudi¹, Massimo Gallo², Diego Perino², Fabio Pianese²

(1) INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France
(2) Nokia Bell Labs, Nozay, France

Abstract The fields of networking and telecommunications are presently witnessing the transition of a number of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) principles and techniques from research into practice.» Read the summary

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Vol. 71, n° 9-10, September-October 2016
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Guest editors

Yuan Zhang, University of Jinan, China
Houbing Song, West Virginia University, USA
Krishna Kumar Venkatasubramanian, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Winston Seah, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Khaled Boussetta, University Paris 13/Inria, France

Editorial

Health care on mobile devices

Guy Pujolle, Editor-in-chief
UPMC/CNRS, Paris, France

Performance evaluation of co-located IEEE 802.15.4-based wireless body sensor networks

Amirhossein Moravejosharieh¹, Jaime Lloret²

(1) University of Canterbury, New Zealand
(2) Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

Abstract Wireless body sensor networks (WBSNs) are expected to play a pivotal role in health-related and well-being applications.» Read the summary

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Vol. 71, n° 7-8, July-August 2016
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Guest editors

J Paul Gibson, Télécom SudParis, France
Robert Krimmer, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Vanessa Teague, University of Melbourne, Australia
Julia Pomares, CIPPEC, Argentina

Editorial introduction

A review of E-voting: the past, present and future

J Paul Gibson¹, Robert Krimmer², Vanessa Teague³, Julia Pomares⁴

(1) Télécom SudParis, France
(2) Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
(3) University of Melbourne, Australia
(4) CIPPEC, Argentina

Crowdsourced integrity verification of election results
An experience from Brazilian elections

Diego F. Aranha, Helder Ribeiro, André Luis Ogando Paraense

University of Campinas, Brazil

Abstract In this work, we describe an experiment for evaluating the integrity of election results, and improving transparency and voter participation in electronic elections.» Read the summary

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Vol. 71, n° 5-6, May-June 2016
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Multi-layer coding strategy for multi-hop block fading channels with outage probability

Simin Keykhosravi, Soroush Akhlaghi
Shahed University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract This paper considers communication over a multi-hop Rayleigh block-fading channel, where there is no direct link between the transmission ends, and communication is carried out through the use of multiple cascaded relays, employing the Decode and Forward (DF) strategy. It is assumed that the relays cannot do buffering or apply coding over consecutive transmission blocks, and they can merely re-encode the retried information and forward an encoded version of information to the next hop.» Read the summary

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Vol. 71, n° 3-4, March-April 2016
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Guest editors

Gordon Blair, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
Douglas Schmidt, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
Chantal Taconet, Télécom SudParis, Évry, France

Editorial introduction

Middleware for Internet distribution in the context of cloud computing and the Internet of Things

Gordon Blair¹, Douglas Schmidt², Chantal Taconet³

(1) Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
(2) Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
(3) Télécom SudParis, Évry, France

A simulation as a service cloud middleware

Shashank Shekhar, Hamzah Abdel-Aziz, Michael Walker, Faruk Caglar, Aniruddha Gokhale, Xenofon Koutsoukos

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

Abstract Many seemingly simple questions that individual users face in their daily lives may actually require substantial number of computing resources to identify the right answers.» Read the summary

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Vol. 71, n° 1-2, January-February 2016
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A new C-RAN architecture based on RF signal soft-switching

Xiaoyuan Lu¹, Yunxiang Xu², Kejun Zhao², Wen Yang²
1 Fudan University, Shanghai, China
2 National Engineering Research Center for Broadband Networks and Applications, Shanghai, China

Abstract Coordinated multi-point (CoMP) is known to be one of the key technologies for long-term evolution (LTE)-advanced systems. CoMP technology can improve system capacity and the quality of wireless communication services for users in LTE networks. However, in practice, the actual performance of CoMP technology is limited by the switching capacity of the backhaul network among distributed base stations as well as its latencies.» Read the summary

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