BEST PRACTICE AVIVIM is Tel Aviv-Yafo's Intelligent Traffic Management and Control system that aims to alleviate adverse traffic conditions while ensuring mobility and accessibility. The systems' sophisticated reporting and analysis capabilities provide necessary information to generate timing programs to optimize traffic flow. ISSUE Road infrastructure in most metropolitan and urban areas cann...

In this paper, to resolve the problem of existing schemes, an alternative fast handover Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) scheme using the IEEE 802.21 Media Independent Handover (MIH) function is proposed for heterogeneous wireless networks. The proposed scheme comes to support fast handover for the mobile node (MN) irrespective of the presence or absence of MIH functionality as well as L3 mobility fu...

Network operators want additional functionality from the networks they manage. The current approach to add functionality is to deploy middleboxes. Unfortunately middleboxes raise concerns regarding robustness, correctness, and efficiency due to their need to be deployed at chokepoints. This paper provides some initial thoughts of solving the middlebox problem in an architectural way. We believe...

The quality of today’s digital maps is very high. This allows for new functionality as illustrated by modern car navigation systems (e.g., TomTom, Garmin, etc.), Google maps, Google Street View, Mashups using geo-tagging (e.g., Panoramio, HousingMaps, etc.), etc. People can seamlessly zoom in and out using the interactive maps in such systems. Moreover, all kinds of information can be projected...

Ad hoc networks were initially conceived as stand-alone entities without connection to any external infrastructure. A possible solution to give access to ad hoc terminals to the Internet trough conventional WLAN networks is described in the mobile multi-gateway support. This scheme proposes to utilize a mobile node within the transmission range of the WLAN access point as a connecting gateway b...

In an effort to increase the efficiency and safety of air travel while accommodating the growing demand for air traffic, the aviation community is working towards designing next generation Air Tr-afic Management (ATM) systems. ATM will replace the completely centralized, ground based, Air Traffic Control procedures. Within ATM, the concept of Free Flight allows each aircraft to plan four dimens...

During emulation and post-silicon validation of NoC-based systems, lack of observability of the NoC’s internal operations makes detection and debugging of functional bugs in the interconnect a difficult task. To verify the correctness of the control-flow portion of the NoC design, it’s common to run tests that exercise the network functionality, while abstracting away the data content of traffi...

Network service provisioning involves the control of network resources through signaling, routing and management protocols that achieve Quality of Service and Traffic Engineering objectives. Network service providers are typically faced with scalability problems due to the explosion in network size and demand. In this paper we propose a new hierarchical distributed protocol (HDP) for the provis...

Within IM@GINE IT EC co-funded project, a Multi-Agent system (MAS) is developed, that can search for and retrieve not only static but also dynamic data, from a wide range of databases and sources, with traffic, touristic and transport mode related and routing information. Thus, information is provided to the user, for obtaining locationbased, intermodal transport information services, promoting...

This chapter addresses the introduction of a Multi-service Provisioning Platform (MSPP) into the transmission segment of the communication network. The first company to do so was Cerent Corporation. Although it was initially introduced in the United States in 1998, acceptance was rapid, and MSPPs found there way into the balance of the world market shortly thereafter. MSPP innovation enabled bo...