Pub Date : 2016-11-01DOI: 10.1109/ITU-WT.2016.7805715
Irina Tal, Eva Ibarrola, Gabriel-Miro Muntean
Education and technological advances have enabled digital learning technologies to become a key pillar holding up one of the main United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Quality Education. Technology-enhanced learning strategies have led to innovative ICT applications for the development of new improved learning and teaching practices aiding to guarantee inclusive and equitable quality education and promote opportunities for all. Nonetheless, there is still a big challenge to get hold of all the capabilities of these technology-enhanced learning strategies: improving the learner quality of experience (QoE). This paper presents an innovative technology-enhanced learning initiative that aims to attract students to STEM education and improve access for students with disabilities through the analysis of the learner QoE. Moreover, in this paper some of the required standards and specifications to be used for developing this initiative are identified. Another key contribution of the paper is that it explores the necessity of new related standards and introduces some novel proposals for standardization in this area.
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Pub Date : 2016-11-01DOI: 10.1109/ITU-WT.2016.7805717
Sajjad Mehri Alamouti, A. Sharafat
Device-to-device (D2D) communications underlaying LTE-Advanced wireless networks reuse cellular frequency spectrum to establish direct links between users without traversing base stations or the cellular network. In this paradigm, there is a need to optimally allocate resources with a view to maximizing the utility, e.g., the total throughput, and mitigating the interference caused by sharing the same spectrum between cellular users (CUs) and D2D pairs. This paper proposes a scheme for optimally allocating transmit power levels and channels to maximize the total number of active D2D pairs and reused channels while minimizing the aggregate transmit power pertaining to CUs and D2D pairs. We consider a multi-cell scenario in which the transmitter and the receiver of each D2D pair can be in the same cell or in two different cells, and each user can simultaneously transmit over multiple reused channels. The optimization is done via a centralized baseband processing in the cloud radio access network (C-RAN) architecture. Simulations show that via our proposed scheme, more users (both cellular users and D2D pairs) can simultaneously communicate and the total system throughput is also significantly increased.
{"title":"Resource allocation for device-to-device communications in multi-cell LTE-advanced wireless networks with C-RAN architecture","authors":"Sajjad Mehri Alamouti, A. Sharafat","doi":"10.1109/ITU-WT.2016.7805717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITU-WT.2016.7805717","url":null,"abstract":"Device-to-device (D2D) communications underlaying LTE-Advanced wireless networks reuse cellular frequency spectrum to establish direct links between users without traversing base stations or the cellular network. In this paradigm, there is a need to optimally allocate resources with a view to maximizing the utility, e.g., the total throughput, and mitigating the interference caused by sharing the same spectrum between cellular users (CUs) and D2D pairs. This paper proposes a scheme for optimally allocating transmit power levels and channels to maximize the total number of active D2D pairs and reused channels while minimizing the aggregate transmit power pertaining to CUs and D2D pairs. We consider a multi-cell scenario in which the transmitter and the receiver of each D2D pair can be in the same cell or in two different cells, and each user can simultaneously transmit over multiple reused channels. The optimization is done via a centralized baseband processing in the cloud radio access network (C-RAN) architecture. Simulations show that via our proposed scheme, more users (both cellular users and D2D pairs) can simultaneously communicate and the total system throughput is also significantly increased.","PeriodicalId":393816,"journal":{"name":"2016 ITU Kaleidoscope: ICTs for a Sustainable World (ITU WT)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115106649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-11-01DOI: 10.1109/ITU-WT.2016.7805729
S. Wurster, Irene Kamara, T. Sveinsdottir
The United Nations formulated 17 sustainable development goals to "transform our world". Goal 11 aims to "make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable". As such, security systems have become increasingly relevant, particularly in the past several years as significant and dangerous threats have emerged throughout the world. In addition to said risks, a number of security solutions, for example in the field of CCTV, are linked with significant privacy risks. Therefore, an appropriate certification scheme for security systems that not only considers security aspects but also additional issues, e.g. data protection and privacy, is needed in Europe. The EU Project CRISP (Evaluation and Certification Schemes for Security Products) aims to facilitate this process via the development of pan-European certification. This paper shows CRISP's solutions based on the current outcomes of the project and its specific contribution to research and practice.
{"title":"Certified security systems for sustainable cities of the 21st century","authors":"S. Wurster, Irene Kamara, T. Sveinsdottir","doi":"10.1109/ITU-WT.2016.7805729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITU-WT.2016.7805729","url":null,"abstract":"The United Nations formulated 17 sustainable development goals to \"transform our world\". Goal 11 aims to \"make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable\". As such, security systems have become increasingly relevant, particularly in the past several years as significant and dangerous threats have emerged throughout the world. In addition to said risks, a number of security solutions, for example in the field of CCTV, are linked with significant privacy risks. Therefore, an appropriate certification scheme for security systems that not only considers security aspects but also additional issues, e.g. data protection and privacy, is needed in Europe. The EU Project CRISP (Evaluation and Certification Schemes for Security Products) aims to facilitate this process via the development of pan-European certification. This paper shows CRISP's solutions based on the current outcomes of the project and its specific contribution to research and practice.","PeriodicalId":393816,"journal":{"name":"2016 ITU Kaleidoscope: ICTs for a Sustainable World (ITU WT)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128122227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-11-01DOI: 10.1109/ITU-WT.2016.7805705
E. Atxutegi, J. O. Fajardo, Eva Ibarrola, F. Liberal
The proper execution of performance tests is of utmost importance for the analysis and evaluation of Internet-related technologies, protocols and deployment strategies. There are plenty of tools available for experimenters ranging from simulation tools, emulation equipment, to small and large scale experimentation testbeds. Each of these performance evaluation frameworks introduces a series of capabilities and drawbacks. Additionally, there is a need for using a common methodology to perform different performance tests and to create comparable outcomes. Seeking for the standardization of reliable and comparable Internet speed measurements and trying to provide end-users with trustworthy measurement tools, different SDOs have standardized different measurement methodologies. This paper focuses on the applicability of the distinct measurement frameworks and methodologies in the field of mobile Internet, with special focus on the impact of using TCP over mobile broadband connections. The paper describes a series of experiments over different frameworks and, based on the obtained results, identifies the implications of the different types of performance tests into the evaluation outcomes and states the need for large scale measurements.
{"title":"Assessing Internet performance over mobile networks: From theory to practice","authors":"E. Atxutegi, J. O. Fajardo, Eva Ibarrola, F. Liberal","doi":"10.1109/ITU-WT.2016.7805705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITU-WT.2016.7805705","url":null,"abstract":"The proper execution of performance tests is of utmost importance for the analysis and evaluation of Internet-related technologies, protocols and deployment strategies. There are plenty of tools available for experimenters ranging from simulation tools, emulation equipment, to small and large scale experimentation testbeds. Each of these performance evaluation frameworks introduces a series of capabilities and drawbacks. Additionally, there is a need for using a common methodology to perform different performance tests and to create comparable outcomes. Seeking for the standardization of reliable and comparable Internet speed measurements and trying to provide end-users with trustworthy measurement tools, different SDOs have standardized different measurement methodologies. This paper focuses on the applicability of the distinct measurement frameworks and methodologies in the field of mobile Internet, with special focus on the impact of using TCP over mobile broadband connections. The paper describes a series of experiments over different frameworks and, based on the obtained results, identifies the implications of the different types of performance tests into the evaluation outcomes and states the need for large scale measurements.","PeriodicalId":393816,"journal":{"name":"2016 ITU Kaleidoscope: ICTs for a Sustainable World (ITU WT)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116618550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-11-01DOI: 10.1109/ITU-WT.2016.7805722
S. Distefano, A. Puliafito, Giovanni Merlino, F. Longo, Dario Bruneo
As mobiles grow pervasive in people's lives and expand their reach, Mobile CrowdSensing (MCS) and similar paradigms are going to play an ever more prominent role. There is a pressing need then to ease developers and service providers in embracing the opportunity, and that means offering a platform for such efforts. This in turn means providing a solid foundational architecture with abstractions and sound layering for MCS application designs to be mapped over it. This should base on a flexible infrastructure able to provide resources to MCS applications according to their requirements, hopefully on-demand. A service-oriented/Cloud model can perfectly fill this gap. This paper is a first step in this direction, proposing to adopt Stack4Things (S4T), an OpenStack-based platform for managing sensing and IoT nodes, for runtime customization of resources and their functions to support MCS services and applications. This implies developing and extending the S4T platform further to the specific requirements coming from off-the-shelf, e.g., Android-based, mobiles, as well as describing an example S4T-powered MCS application, Pothole Detection Mapping, to highlight the role of the platform.
{"title":"A Stack4Things-based platform for mobile crowdsensing services","authors":"S. Distefano, A. Puliafito, Giovanni Merlino, F. Longo, Dario Bruneo","doi":"10.1109/ITU-WT.2016.7805722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITU-WT.2016.7805722","url":null,"abstract":"As mobiles grow pervasive in people's lives and expand their reach, Mobile CrowdSensing (MCS) and similar paradigms are going to play an ever more prominent role. There is a pressing need then to ease developers and service providers in embracing the opportunity, and that means offering a platform for such efforts. This in turn means providing a solid foundational architecture with abstractions and sound layering for MCS application designs to be mapped over it. This should base on a flexible infrastructure able to provide resources to MCS applications according to their requirements, hopefully on-demand. A service-oriented/Cloud model can perfectly fill this gap. This paper is a first step in this direction, proposing to adopt Stack4Things (S4T), an OpenStack-based platform for managing sensing and IoT nodes, for runtime customization of resources and their functions to support MCS services and applications. This implies developing and extending the S4T platform further to the specific requirements coming from off-the-shelf, e.g., Android-based, mobiles, as well as describing an example S4T-powered MCS application, Pothole Detection Mapping, to highlight the role of the platform.","PeriodicalId":393816,"journal":{"name":"2016 ITU Kaleidoscope: ICTs for a Sustainable World (ITU WT)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122091688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-11-01DOI: 10.1109/ITU-WT.2016.7805716
K. Nakajima, T. Matsui, Kotaro Saito, T. Sakamoto, N. Araki
Space division multiplexing (SDM) is expected to be a key technology both for dealing with the future capacity crunch facing traditional single-mode fibre (SMF) and for realizing a sustainable optical network that can accommodate the various data streams originating from, for example, future 5G communication, the Internet of things (IoT), and machine to machine (M2M) networks. This paper describes the potential of SDM as regards optical fibre and cable technology. We focus on the potential of multi-core fibre (MCF), and investigate the reality of MCF based SDM optical wiring as the first example of an SDM application taking the latest research and development into consideration. Finally, we show that MCF based SDM optical fibre cable will be a promising technology for next generation optical networks, and the key technology behind MCF based SDM optical wiring is ready for discussion as the near future standard.
{"title":"Space division multiplexing technology: Next generation optical communication strategy","authors":"K. Nakajima, T. Matsui, Kotaro Saito, T. Sakamoto, N. Araki","doi":"10.1109/ITU-WT.2016.7805716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITU-WT.2016.7805716","url":null,"abstract":"Space division multiplexing (SDM) is expected to be a key technology both for dealing with the future capacity crunch facing traditional single-mode fibre (SMF) and for realizing a sustainable optical network that can accommodate the various data streams originating from, for example, future 5G communication, the Internet of things (IoT), and machine to machine (M2M) networks. This paper describes the potential of SDM as regards optical fibre and cable technology. We focus on the potential of multi-core fibre (MCF), and investigate the reality of MCF based SDM optical wiring as the first example of an SDM application taking the latest research and development into consideration. Finally, we show that MCF based SDM optical fibre cable will be a promising technology for next generation optical networks, and the key technology behind MCF based SDM optical wiring is ready for discussion as the near future standard.","PeriodicalId":393816,"journal":{"name":"2016 ITU Kaleidoscope: ICTs for a Sustainable World (ITU WT)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125201356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-11-01DOI: 10.1109/ITU-WT.2016.7805713
Nathalie Devillier
ICTs are a critical enabler for a sustainable development that helps with unlocking human capabilities. Technology related to ageing belongs to several sustainable development targets and action lines: social inclusion, access to scientific knowledge, capacity building, cyber-security and ehealth. While the objective is the improvement of quality of life for citizens, a special monitoring is needed so as to regulate ICT use in compliance with the rights and freedoms of data subjects. How can we ensure that these tools are implemented in a way that is relevant and appropriate? This article aims at finding the right balance between multiple stakeholders' interests: in particular the relationship between risk management and respect for private life and lighting providers about integrating data protection into the design of their products so as to improve the quality of life for citizens and preserve their privacy.
{"title":"Ageing, well-being and technology: From quality of life improvement to digital rights management a French perspective","authors":"Nathalie Devillier","doi":"10.1109/ITU-WT.2016.7805713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITU-WT.2016.7805713","url":null,"abstract":"ICTs are a critical enabler for a sustainable development that helps with unlocking human capabilities. Technology related to ageing belongs to several sustainable development targets and action lines: social inclusion, access to scientific knowledge, capacity building, cyber-security and ehealth. While the objective is the improvement of quality of life for citizens, a special monitoring is needed so as to regulate ICT use in compliance with the rights and freedoms of data subjects. How can we ensure that these tools are implemented in a way that is relevant and appropriate? This article aims at finding the right balance between multiple stakeholders' interests: in particular the relationship between risk management and respect for private life and lighting providers about integrating data protection into the design of their products so as to improve the quality of life for citizens and preserve their privacy.","PeriodicalId":393816,"journal":{"name":"2016 ITU Kaleidoscope: ICTs for a Sustainable World (ITU WT)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123121743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-11-01DOI: 10.1109/ITU-WT.2016.7805707
Leonidas G. Anthopoulos, G. Giannakidis
Several competitive standards have been introduced for smart city quite recently, which define the architecture and its components or city key performance indicators. However, these standards do not discuss smart service formulation, nor policy making process modeling. Standardization assists in achieving process automation by introducing "best practices" as standard process models. Policy making mainly follow non-standardized procedures, even if it is supported by various tools (i.e., Multi-Criteria Decision Methods (MCDM)). Inspired by the Task-Based Modeling method (TBM) this paper focuses on policy making process standardization for smart cities. It utilizes the case-study of the InSmart (Integrative Smart City Planning) coordination action in the smart city of Trikala, Greece, in an attempt to define and introduce a model for such a process.
{"title":"Task-based process modeling for policy making in smart cities","authors":"Leonidas G. Anthopoulos, G. Giannakidis","doi":"10.1109/ITU-WT.2016.7805707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITU-WT.2016.7805707","url":null,"abstract":"Several competitive standards have been introduced for smart city quite recently, which define the architecture and its components or city key performance indicators. However, these standards do not discuss smart service formulation, nor policy making process modeling. Standardization assists in achieving process automation by introducing \"best practices\" as standard process models. Policy making mainly follow non-standardized procedures, even if it is supported by various tools (i.e., Multi-Criteria Decision Methods (MCDM)). Inspired by the Task-Based Modeling method (TBM) this paper focuses on policy making process standardization for smart cities. It utilizes the case-study of the InSmart (Integrative Smart City Planning) coordination action in the smart city of Trikala, Greece, in an attempt to define and introduce a model for such a process.","PeriodicalId":393816,"journal":{"name":"2016 ITU Kaleidoscope: ICTs for a Sustainable World (ITU WT)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129604230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-11-01DOI: 10.1109/ITU-WT.2016.7805725
Kotaro Suzuki, Y. Murata
Japan's low birthrate and rapidly aging population are causing medical expenses to take up ever more of the national budget and leading to a shortage of young medical professionals. As a result, rehabilitation therapy is being shifted from hospital-care to home-care. Several other countries will also face the same situation in the near future. Thus, we propose a tele-rehabilitation system combined with a video call center to make up for the shortage of rehabilitation therapy done by visiting physiotherapists. A video call center operator coaches a patient instead of a physiotherapist, and a physiotherapist supervises multiple operators. The system focuses on cerebrovascular patients who have a home-visit rehabilitation or an outpatient one and uses Microsoft KINECT to measure strain of the upper body. In this paper, implementation of this system is mainly described.
{"title":"Implementation of tele-rehabilitation system combined with video call center","authors":"Kotaro Suzuki, Y. Murata","doi":"10.1109/ITU-WT.2016.7805725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITU-WT.2016.7805725","url":null,"abstract":"Japan's low birthrate and rapidly aging population are causing medical expenses to take up ever more of the national budget and leading to a shortage of young medical professionals. As a result, rehabilitation therapy is being shifted from hospital-care to home-care. Several other countries will also face the same situation in the near future. Thus, we propose a tele-rehabilitation system combined with a video call center to make up for the shortage of rehabilitation therapy done by visiting physiotherapists. A video call center operator coaches a patient instead of a physiotherapist, and a physiotherapist supervises multiple operators. The system focuses on cerebrovascular patients who have a home-visit rehabilitation or an outpatient one and uses Microsoft KINECT to measure strain of the upper body. In this paper, implementation of this system is mainly described.","PeriodicalId":393816,"journal":{"name":"2016 ITU Kaleidoscope: ICTs for a Sustainable World (ITU WT)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133759698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-11-01DOI: 10.1109/ITU-WT.2016.7805709
A. Bagula, C. Lubamba, M. Mandava, H. Bagula, M. Zennaro, E. Pietrosemoli
This paper proposes and evaluates the performance of a Cyber-healthcare system which is aimed at providing patient prioritization over the cloud as a public health service for the rural and urban communities of the developing world. The underlying cloud-based Internet-of-Things (IoT-Cloud) infrastructure is aimed to be implemented in the city of Lubumbashi in the republic Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with the objective of setting up a community health care network around a mesh of health kiosks. We propose a deployment model for the proposed Cyber-healthcare system, and describe a patient prioritization process as part of its situation awareness component. The results obtained from an experimental prototype reveal the field readiness of the off-the-shelf bio-sensor technology used by the system, the performance achieved when using a solar powered subsystem, the relative communication capabilities provided by its protocols and the network engineering feasibility of the planned community health care network. The relative efficiency of using supervised machine learning compared to unsupervised machine learning when performing patient prioritization, is also revealed through two popular algorithms: Multivariate linear regression (MLR) and K-means clustering (KMC).
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