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Evolution and Market Share of Wireless Community Networks

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Peter Marbach

Wireless community networks that operate in the unlicensed spectrum have emerged as a low-cost alternative for providing high-speed wireless data services. By using WiFi access points that are provided and managed by community members, wireless community n ...

2009

Mobility-centric design of collaborative transportation systems

Embedded sensors and actuators are revolutionizing the way we perceive and interact with the physical world. Current research on such Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) has focused mostly on distributed sensing and data gathering. The next step is to move from ...

EPFL2009

On Wireless Social Community Networks

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Mark Felegyhazi, Julien Freudiger, Peter Marbach

Wireless social community networks are emerging as a new alternative to provide wireless data access in urban areas. By relying on users in the network deployment, a wireless community can rapidly deploy a high-quality data access infrastructure in an inex ...

2008

Optimal capital and risk transfers for group diversification

Damir Filipovic

Diversification is at the core of insurance and other financial business. It constitutes an important issue in the preparation of the new Solvency II framework for the regulation of European insurance undertakings. In this paper, we propose a conceptual fr ...

Wiley-Blackwell2008

Security and Cooperation in Wireless Networks

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Levente Buttyan

According to most technology pundits, progress in wireless and sensor networks will lead us into a world of ubiquitous computing, in which myriads of tiny, untethered sensors and actuators will communicate with each other. Information technology will thus ...

Cambridge University Press2008

Wireless sensor networks for marginal farming in India

Jacques Panchard

In this dissertation, we explore the potential of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) in an original context, the small agriculture of Developing Countries (DCs). Our goal is to confront an emerging technology with a concrete problem of world-wide dimensions, ...

EPFL2008

Topickr: Flickr Groups and Users Reloaded

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Radu Andrei Negoescu

With the increased presence of digital imaging devices there also came an explosion in the amount of multimedia content available online. Users have transformed from passive consumers of media into content creators. Flickr.com is such an example of an onli ...

ACM2008

Topickr: Flickr Groups and Users Reloaded

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Radu Andrei Negoescu

IDIAP2008

Manufacturing And Tests Of A Mobile Ecg Platform

One of the challenges in the biomedical engineering domain is the Telemedicine. The remote diagnosis, automate instruments for drug delivery or mobile platforms for domestic applications are common targets accepted by the medical insurance companies form t ...

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Non-cooperative behavior in wireless networks

Mark Felegyhazi

Existing cellular networks are centrally managed and require a tremendous initial investment. With the advancement of new wireless technologies, the operators of traditional networks have to face new competition. New technologies make it possible to provid ...

EPFL2007