We published a new article entitled “LDM-based dynamic network discovery and selection for IPv6 mobility management optimization in C-ITS environments”, where we presented our proof-of concept LDM-based and CAM-supported mobility management solution designed for ITS/C‑ITS enviroments during the 4th International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems (MT-ITS 2015) in Budapest, Hungary (3-5/06/2015).

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Head of MEDIANETS, dr. Vilmos Simon served as an invited speaker at the most important and prestigious event for Hungary’s information society, the Parliament of the Information Society. This event is also the most important venue for representing the interests of non-governmental participants. With the previous years’ successful conferences in mind, a brand new event type was created: the non-governmental, professional Parliamentary forum. True to the spirit of the principle of representation, the aim was to provide a venue where the people from all parts of the industry can present their views to the key decision makers regarding the information society. This event is the most important meeting point for public administration, the public, and the ICT industry, while also serving as the venue for the annual report of ICT decision makers.

Several members of the Medianets Laboratory were awarded by the Scientific Association for Infocommunications Hungary (HTE) at the annual general assembly of HTE on 21st May, 2015. Hence, Vilmos Simon received the Tivadar Puskás award, Árpád Huszák and Károly Farkas received the HTE Gold Medal, Bernát Wiandt received the HTE Silver Medal, and László Bokor and Károly Farkas received the Pollák-Virág award. Congratulations!

We published the following paper at the 3rd International Conference & Workshop Mechatronics in Practice and Education (MECHEDU 2015; Subotica, Serbia; 14 – 16 May, 2015): K. Farkas, I. Lendák: “Evaluation of Simulation Engines for Crowdsensing Activities”. In this paper, together with a colleague from University of Novi Sad we analyzed existing simulation engines and assessed how well-suited they are for simulating the formation, existence and dissolution of dynamic social networks, with a special emphasis on networks formed around crowdsensing efforts.

Norbert Varga, PhD student of our laboratory earned 3rd prize in the 2014 MATE Thesis Competition, a contest between graduate MSc students annually organized by the Scientific Society for Measurement, Automation and Informatics. The supervisor of the acknowledged work was László Bokor. Congratulations!!!

PhD students from MEDIANETS Labs earned prizes at the National Scientific Students’ Associations Conference. Norbert Varga get the 2nd prize for his research work in the FP7-ICT CONCERTO (supervisor László Bokor), while András Kőkuti get a special prize for his research work in the FIRST project (supervisor Vilmos Simon).

The representatives of MEDIANETS Lab, Csaba Szabó, Vilmos Simon, Árpád Huszák and László Bokor gave several presentations about their most recent research activities during the Creating Connections – Building Bridges Workshop at the Technical University of Kosice in Slovakia (March 27, 2015). They also provided an update on the actions and opportunities of the EIT ICT Labs Budapest Associate Partner Group. The “Creating Connections – Building Bridges” initiative fosters knowledge transfer between the two universities and helps cooperation aiming to tackle the challenges of starting H2020 projects and involvement to ICT Labs activities.

Due to the fast evolution of wireless access networks and high-performance mobile devices together with the spreading of wearable medical sensors, electronic healthcare (eHealth) services have recently started to receive more and more attention, especially in the mobile Health (mHealth) domain. The vast majority of mHealth services require strict medical level Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE) provision. Emergency use-cases, remote patient monitoring, tele-consultation and guided surgical intervention require real-time communication and appropriate connection quality. The increase of overlapping wireless accesses makes possible to provide the required network resources for ubiquitous and pervasive mHealth applications. Aiming to support such use-cases in a heterogeneous network environment, we proposed a network-assisted intelligent access point selection scheme for real-time mobile telemedicine services. Our solution is able to discover nearby base stations that cover the current location of the mobile device efficiently and to trigger heterogeneous handovers based on the state and quality of the current access network.

The demonstration took place during the final review event of CONCERTO on 05/02/2015 at theFaculty of Medicine of University of Perugia, Italy.

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Károly Farkas, member of MEDIANETS, published an article in the Acta Politechnica Hungarica journal’s recent issue (March 2015, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 123-139., IF: 0.471) with the title “Placement Optimization of Reference Sensors for Indoor Tracking”. In this article, a simulated annealing based method and its simulation based performance analysis are presented to find the optimal number and placement of reference sensors in a given area to be used for indoor positioning.

Vilmos Simon received his PhD from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) in 2009 and is currently an associate professor at the Department of Networked Systems and Services and Head of the Multimedia Networks and Services Laboratory. His research interests include self-organizing mobile networks, mobile crowdsensing, flocking optimization in self-organized networks, Internet of Things. He participated in several research projects including the EU ICST-FET FP6 BIONETS where he also acted as a WP leader. He published 40+ papers in international journals and conferences, and acts as a reviewer or organizer for numerous scientific conferences. He serves as a president of the Telecommunications Section in the Scientific Association for Infocommunications Hungary.