Cover -- Half Title -- Series Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1 - The Internet of Things -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Technical Approach -- 1.2.1 Addressability and Intelligence -- 1.2.2 Sizing -- 1.2.3 Architecture -- 1.2.3.1 IOT-A -- 1.2.3.2 SENSAI -- 1.2.3.3 CASAGRAS -- 1.2.3.4 Smart santander -- 1.2.3.5 BRIDGE -- 1.2.3.6 Smart pro -- 1.2.3.7 CUBIQ -- 1.3 Applications -- 1.4 Standardization Activities -- 1.4.1 ETSI TC M2M -- 1.4.2 ITU-T USN -- 1.4.3 ISO/IEC JTC1 WG7 (Working Group on Sensor Networks) -- 1.4.4 OGC SWE (SensorWeb Enablement) -- 1.4.5 IETF (constrained devices) -- 1.4.6 EPC Global Network Architecture -- 1.4.7 REST Architecture -- 1.4.8 Web Service Architecture -- 1.5 Policy-making in Europe -- 1.6 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 2 - Resource Management Support of BigData Procurement -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Rationale for IoT - Cloud Convergence - EarlyConvergence Efforts -- 2.2.1 Challenges Towards "True" Convergence -- 2.2.1.1 Requirements for the IoT and the cloud -- 2.2.1.2 Realization of a converged IoT/Cloud framework -- 2.2.1.3 Open research challenges -- 2.3 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3 - Future Internet Technologies for OpenAccess to Resource Managementin Multimedia Networks -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 RelatedWorks -- 3.3 Open Access to Policy and Charging Control -- 3.3.1 Architecture for Open Service Access to ResourceManagement -- 3.3.2 Identification of Requirements to Access to PCC -- 3.3.3 Evaluation of Standardized Capabilitiesfor Open Access to PCC -- 3.4 Design of Application Programing Interfacesto Policy and Charging Control -- 3.4.1 Object-Oriented Interfaces for Quality of Service Control -- 3.4.2 Models of Quality of Service Resources -- 3.5 A Model of Application Server for Open Accessto Policy and Charging Control.

3.5.1 Abstraction Model -- 3.5.2 Mathematical Model of Application Server for OpenService Access -- 3.5.3 Simulation Parameters -- 3.5.4 Results and Discussion -- 3.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 - Call-Level Performance Evaluationof Cognitive and AMC-EnabledWireless Access Networks -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 QoS Provisioning and Performance Analysisof Cognitive Radio Networks -- 4.2.1 Overview of DSA -- 4.2.1.1 Dynamic exclusive use model -- 4.2.1.2 Open sharing model -- 4.2.1.3 Hierarchical access model -- 4.2.2 Overview of Basic Spectrum Management Functionsin CR Networks -- 4.2.2.1 Spectrum Sensing -- 4.2.2.2 Spectrum analysis -- 4.2.2.3 Spectrum decision -- 4.2.2.4 Spectrum sharing -- 4.2.2.5 Spectrum mobility -- 4.2.3 QoS Provisioning in CR Networks -- 4.2.3.1 The system model -- 4.2.3.2 The novel analytical approach -- 4.2.3.3 Analysis of channel limitation -- 4.3 Performance Analysis of AMC-enabled WirelessAccess Networks -- 4.3.1 Handover Management in Wireless Access Networks -- 4.3.2 Intra-cell Handover Management in AMC-enabledWireless Access Networks -- 4.4 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5 - Enhancing Positioning Accuracy viaHeterogeneous Wireless Networks -- Introduction -- 5.1 Positioning Methods and Technologies -- 5.1.1 Radio Frequency Based Positioning Technologies -- 5.1.2 Personal Area Network -- Bluetooth -- Ultra wide band -- ZigBee -- 5.1.3 Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) -- 5.1.4 Wireless Metropolitan Area Network (WMAN) -- 5.1.5 Satellite Positioning Systems -- 5.1.6 Examples of Positioning in Various Environments -- 5.2 Review Methods on Cooperative Mobile Positioning -- 5.2.1 Positioning via Time of Arrival using MIMO Fe -- 5.2.2 Positioning Using Adaptive Modulation and CodingData Fusion -- System level settings -- 5.2.3 Positioning Using Beamforming Features -- 5.2.4 Hybrid Data Fusion Techniques.

5.2.4.1 Hybrid TOA with MIMO features and AMC data fusion -- 5.2.4.2 Hybrid TOA with MIMO Features and DOA-Basedbeamforming data fusion -- 5.3 Wireless Network Architecture and PositioningProtocol -- 5.4 Findings and Performance Evaluation -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6 - The Software Communications Architecture -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Hardware and Software Technologies Used in the SCA -- 6.2.1 OOD -- 6.2.2 UML -- 6.2.3 XML -- 6.2.4 Middleware -- 6.2.5 POSIX and RTOS -- 6.2.6 CPUs and Software Development -- 6.3 The Operating Environment and the Core Framework -- 6.3.1 The Domain Profile -- 6.3.2 Power-up Scenario -- 6.4 SCA Next -- 6.5 SCA Specifics for DSPs and FPGAs -- 6.6 Design Principles -- 6.6.1 General Software Rules -- 6.6.2 Hardware Architecture Requirements -- 6.6.3 System Architecture Overview -- 6.6.4 Interface Organization -- 6.7 Summary and Future Directions -- References -- Chapter 7 - An Approach to Resource Managementin Future Internet -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Resource Management and Quality of Service -- 7.3 Towards Multimedia Based Internet -- 7.4 Conclusions -- References -- Index -- About the Editors -- About the Authors.