Current and future network services and applications are expected to revolutionize our
society and lifestyle. At the same time, the abundant possibilities that new network …

Software defined networking (SDN) decouples the network control and data planes. The
network intelligence and state are logically centralized and the underlying network …

During the last years, a continuous convergence and fusion of computing and networking
systems is stressed in the ICT research community. Context awareness appears to be a …

Mobile users and applications are putting pressure on wireless network operators to
improve the seamless handover of devices and services. Strong business competition for …

Future Internet (FI) scenarios envisage ubiquitous broadband coverage and seamless
mobility, enabling the availability of personalized network connectivity at all places and with …

Face detection is an important aspect for biometrics, video surveillance and human
computer interaction. We present a multi-GPU implementation of the Viola-Jones face …

The objective of autonomic networking is to enable the autonomous formation and
parametrization of nodes and networks by letting protocols sense and adapt to the …

Network operators are under pressure to offer efficient network-based services while
keeping service deployment costs to a minimum. Network functions virtualization (NFV) can …

This paper reviews the threat of economic denial of sustainability on recent communication
networks and discusses their adaptation to emergent scenarios suited for self-organization …

We present a generic and robust approach for scene categorization. A complex scene is
described by proto-concepts like vegetation, water, fire, sky etc. These proto-concepts are …