Communications Infrastructure, Systems and Applications

1. Front Matter

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2. Emerging Infrastructure and Technologies I

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Building Digital Economy – The Research Councils Programme and the Vision

      • John Hand

      Pages 3-3

   3. Why the Internet Is So ‘Small’?

      • Shi Zhou

      Pages 4-12

   4. Reactive Management of Quality of Service in Multimedia OBS Networks Based on GMPLS

      • Fernando N. N. Farias, Rafael P. Esteves, Waldir A. Moreira, Antonio J. G. Abelém, Michael A. Stanton

      Pages 13-22

   5. Enhancing Java RMI with Asynchrony through Reflection

      • Orhan Akın, Nadia Erdoğan

      Pages 23-34

   6. SNR Based Digital Estimation of Security in Wireless Sensor Networks

      • Adnan Ashraf, AbdulRauf Rajput, Marvie Mussadiq, Bhawani S. Chowdhry, Manzoor Hashmani

      Pages 35-45

   7. Quantifying the TV White Spaces Spectrum Opportunity for Cognitive Radio Access

      • Maziar Nekovee

      Pages 46-57

3. Emerging Infrastructure and Technologies II

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59

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   2. MIMO Free-Space Optical Communication Employing Subcarrier Intensity Modulation in Atmospheric Turbulence Channels

      • Zabih Ghassemlooy, Wasiu O. Popoola, Vahid Ahmadi, Erich Leitgeb

      Pages 61-73

   3. RSVP-TE Based Impairments Collection Mechanism in DWDM Network

      • Marco Anisetti, Valerio Bellandi, Roberto Cassata, Ernesto Damiani, Zafar Ali

      Pages 74-82

   4. MIMO-OFDM System’s Performance Using LDPC Codes for a Mobile Robot

      • Omar Daoud, Omar Alani

      Pages 83-90

   5. Hybrid M-QAM with Adaptive Modulation and Selection Combining in MIMO Systems

      • Sang-Do Lee, Young-Chai Ko

      Pages 91-100

   6. Performance Analysis of a Joint Space-Time Block Codes and Channel Estimation Scheme in DL-PUSC Mode of Mobile WiMAX

      • Phuong T. T. Pham, Tomohisa Wada

      Pages 101-112

4. Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113

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   2. The Changing Transport Datascape – Opportunities and Challenges

      • John Polak

      Pages 115-115

   3. Intelligent Control of Urban Road Networks: Algorithms, Systems and Communications

      • Mike Smith

      Pages 116-127

   4. Congestion Reduction Using Ad-Hoc Message Dissemination in Vehicular Networks

      • Thomas D. Hewer, Maziar Nekovee

      Pages 128-139

   5. Intelligent Mobility Systems: Some Socio-technical Challenges and Opportunities

      • Monika Büscher, Paul Coulton, Christos Efstratiou, Hans Gellersen, Drew Hemment, Rashid Mehmood et al.

      Pages 140-152

   6. iRide: A Cooperative Sensor and IP Multimedia Subsystem Based Architecture and Application for ITS Road Safety

      • Muslim Elkotob, Evgeny Osipov

      Pages 153-162

The First International ICST Conference on Communications Infrastructure, Systems and Applications in Europe (EuropeComm 2009) was held August 11–13, 2009, in London. EuropeComm 2009 brought together decision makers from the EU comm- sion, top researchers and industry executives to discuss the directions of communi- tions research and development in Europe. The event also attracted academia and industry representatives, as well as government officials to discuss the current dev- opments and future trends in technology, applications and services in the communi- tions field. Organizing this conference was motivated by the fact that the development and - ployment of future services will require a common global-scale infrastructure, and therefore it is important that designers and stakeholders from all the systems stacks come together to discuss these developments. Rapidly decreasing costs of compu- tional power, storage capacity, and communication bandwidth have led to the dev- opment of a multitude of applications carrying an increasingly huge amount of traffic on the global networking infrastructure. What we have seen is an evolution: an inf- structure looking for networked applications has evolved into an infrastructure str- gling to meet the social, technological and business challenges posed by the plethora of bandwidth-hungry emerging applications.

• Internet
• MANET
• ad hoc networks
• broadband access
• broadband networks
• cognitive networks
• communication
• converged optical-wireless networks
• digital economy
• emerging applications
• future internet
• grid architectures
• grid infra
• healthcare
• reconfigurable networks

• School of Engineering, Civil and Computational Engineering Centre, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom

  Rashid Mehmood

• Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

  Eduardo Cerqueira

• Wroclaw Research Centre EIT+sp.zo.o, R&D: ICT Development, Wroclaw, Poland

  Radoslaw Piesiewicz

• CreateNet Research Consortium, University of Trento, Trento, Italy

  Imrich Chlamtac

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