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Best Paper Award at IE`12

The paper titled "An Approach for Secure Role Assignment" by Wolfgang Apolinarski, Marcus Handte and Pedro José Marrón was published within the 7th framework project GAMBAS – Generic Adaptive Middleware for Behaviour driven Autonomous Services – funded by the EU. The paper has been performed during the International conference "Intelligent […]

GAMBAS Kick-off Meeting in Duisburg

Our new Project GAMBAS – Generic Adaptive Middleware for Behavior-driven Autonomous Services funded under the FP7 by the European Commission started officially with the kickoff meeting hosted by NES in Duisburg, Germany.The overall objective of the GAMBAS project is the development of an innovative and adaptive middleware to enable the privacy-preserving […]

Presenting the project PLANET at CeBIT 2012

Landing UAV`s, monitor and protect big national parks– this is among others the aim of the project PLANET – Platform for the Deployment and Operation of Heterogeneous Networked Cooperating Objects – . The project, supervised by Prof. Dr. Pedro José Marrón and his research group is funded by the European […]

Two papers will be presented at EWSN 2012

The first paper title is: "Smart-HOP: A Reliable Handoff Mechanism for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks" and the authors are: Hossein Fotouhi, Marco Zuniga, Mario Alves, Anis Koubaa, Pedro José Marrón. The second paper title is: "On the Optimal Blacklisting Threshold for Link Selection in Wireless Sensor Networks" and the authors are: […]

WebDA/CONET paper will be presented at PERCOM 2012

The paper title is "On Optimal Tag Placement for Indoor Localization" and the authors are Stephan Wagner, Marcus Handte, Marco Zuniga, Pedro José Marrón. Abstract: Indoor localization based on signal strength fingerprinting has received significant attention from the community. This method is attractive because it does not require complex hardware beyond a simple […]

Living++/GAMBAS paper and demo will be presented at PERCOM 2012

The paper title is "Enabling Energy-Efficient Context Recognition with Configuration Folding" and the authors are Muhammad Umer Iqbal, Marcus Handte, Stephan Wagner, Wolfgang Apolinarski, Pedro José Marrón. Abstract: Existing context recognition applications for personal mobile devices are usually fine-tuned to recognize the set of characteristics required to support a particular user […]

PLANET: First Review

The European research project "Platform for the Deployment and Operation of Heterogeneous Networked Cooperating Objects" (PLANET) was reviewed in Brussels in December 2011. This was the first review of this project, conducted by the European Commission and it was very successful as the comment shows "Excellent progress; the project has fully achieved […]

PECES Paper presented at the CONTEXT 2011 conference

The short paper called "A Peer-based Approach to Privacy-Preserving Context Management" was presented at the CONTEXT conference (CONTEXT 2011) in Karlsruhe, Germany. It describes how the PECES Middleware covers context  management in a privacy-preserving manner while showing that it is capable to run on resource-constrained devices such as sensors. The conference […]

Flavio Fabbri left the group

We are very sorry that Flavio Fabbri left our group on August 31st 2011. Flavio has found a new job in Aachen. We wish him well in his future.