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Large Scale Integrating Project

EXALTED

Expanding LTE for Devices

FP7 Contract Number: 258512

WP8 – Standardisation and Knowledge Dissemination

D8.2 Final Report on the Standardisation and Dissemination

Activities of the Project

Contractual Date of Delivery to the CEC: 28 February 2013

Actual Date of Delivery to the CEC: 28 February 2013

Responsible Beneficiary: CTTC

Contributing Beneficiaries: ALL

Estimated Person Months: 36

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Nature Report

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Ref. Ares(2013)282246 - 04/03/2013

FP7 Contract Number: 258512 Deliverable ID: WP8 / D8.1

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Document Information

Document ID: D8.2

Version Date: February 28, 2013

Total Number of Pages: 44

Abstract This is a deliverable of the EXALTED project. It documents the

EXALTED-related standardisation and other dissemination

activities that have occurred within the first year of the

EXALTED project.

Keywords EXALTED, IWM2M, M2M, MTC, dissemination, workshop, IEEE

– GLOBECOM, IEEE-WCNC, FUNEMS

Authors

Name Organisation Email

Christian Ibars (editor) Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions

de Catalunya (CTTC)

[email protected]

Carles Anton-Haro Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions

de Catalunya (CTTC)

[email protected]

Prakash Bhat Vodafone Group Services Limited (VGSL) [email protected]

Petros Bithas University of Piraeus Research Center (UPRC)

[email protected]

Stephan Saur Alcatel-Lucent Deutschland AG (ALUD) [email protected]

Piraba Navaratnam University of Surrey (UNIS) [email protected]

Djelal Raouf Sierra Wireless [email protected]

Approvals

Name Organisation Date Visa

Project Manager Djelal RAOUF SWIR 28/02/2013 OK

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Executive Summary

The EXALTED project has carried out a significant amount of activities amplify the impact of the scientific and technological advances attained. This document summarizes dissemination and standardization activities over the course of the entire project. EXALTED partners have been active in all reference standards bodies for M2M communications, namely 3GPP, IETF, and ETSI. 3GPP has seen the biggest number of contributions, related to Machine Type Communications (MTC). Several concepts such as efficient small data transfer, optimization for MTC traffic, or efficient random access, among others, were presented to 3GPP by EXALTED partners. Contributions related to embedded SIM were presented by EXALTED partners to ETSI. Contributions on packet routing and discovery protocols were presented to IETF. Overall, 26 standards contributions with a direct mapping to EXALTED were carried out. In terms of scientific publications, dissemination of EXALTED activities resulted in the publication/acceptance of one book chapter, ten journal papers, fity-three conference papers and four presentations at various events. Moreover, a special issue entitled “Machine-to-Machine: An Emerging Communication Paradigm” and a second one entitled “Machine-to-Machine Technologies & Architectures”, with EXALTED members in the guest editorials, will be published shortly. The first EXALTED International Workshop on Machine-to-Machine Communications (IWM2M) took place in the IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom) in Houston, Texas, on December 9th, 2011. The organizing committee included members from several EXALTED partners, and the TPC included worldwide experts from both academia and industry. The technical program featured topics of high relevance, such as networks, resource allocation, energy efficiency, as well as technical and business challenges. A second edition of the successful IWM2M took place in IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom) in Anaheim, CA, USA, on December 7th, 2012. Besides the IWM2M, an international workshop entitled Internet of Things Enabling Technologies: “Embracing the M2M Communications and Beyond” took place at the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) on April 1st, 2012 in Paris. The workshop organizing committee also included members from several EXALTED partners. Four technical sessions, in the topics of Smart Grid and RFID Technologies, M2M Network Architecture, Application and Experiment, and Energy Efficiency, were included. The Exalted training school, co-organized with several other EC funded projects in the context of the senZations training school in Mecavnik (Serbia), took place in the first week of September 2012, featuring five lecturers from the EXALTED team. Other dissemination activities took place during the project. We distinguish between internal and external dissemination activities. Internal activities involve the project partners, and consist of numerous face-to-face meetings, the project file repository, phone conferences, and mailing list. External activities include the website, a booth at the FUNEMS Workshop, presentations, meetings with the advisory board, and organization of journal special issues, among others. As a conclusion, dissemination activities in EXALTED have been extensive and on all fronts that were targeted. As a result, it can be expected that the scientific and technological advances carried out in EXALTED have reached the target communities and will have a long-lasting impact on the future of M2M communications.


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Table of Contents

1. Introduction ....................................................................................................... 5

2. Activities in Standardisation Bodies and Industry Fora ................................ 6

3. Publications ....................................................................................................... 7

3.1 Journals, Magazines, and Books ........................................................................ 8 3.2 Conferences and Workshops .............................................................................. 9

4. Workshops and Training School.................................................................... 14

4.1 First International Workshop on Machine-to-Machine Communications ........14 4.1.1 Rationale and Context .......................................................................................14 4.1.2 Organising Committee, Call for Papers and Workshop Website ........................15 4.1.3 Peer Review Process ........................................................................................16 4.1.4 Technical program ............................................................................................16 4.1.5 Main Conclusions from the Workshop and Future Plans ...................................20

4.2 Internet of Things enabling Technologies: Embracing the M2M Communications and Beyond .......................................................................................21

4.2.1 Rationale and Context .......................................................................................21 4.2.2 Organising Committee, Call for Papers and Workshop Website ........................21 4.2.3 Peer Review Process ........................................................................................23 4.2.4 Technical Program ............................................................................................23 4.2.5 Main Conclusions from the Workshop and Future Plans ...................................24

4.3 Second International Workshop on Machine-to-Machine Communications ...24 4.3.1 Rationale and Context .......................................................................................24 4.3.2 Organising Committee, Call for Papers and Workshop Website ........................25 4.3.3 Peer Review Process ........................................................................................26 4.3.4 Technical program ............................................................................................26 4.3.5 Main Conclusions from the Workshop and Future Plans ...................................30

4.4 Senzations Training School ...............................................................................31

5. Other Dissemination Activities ...................................................................... 33

5.1 Internal Dissemination ........................................................................................33 5.1.1 Face-to-Face Meetings .....................................................................................33 5.1.2 Project File Repository ......................................................................................34 5.1.3 Regular Phone Conferences .............................................................................34 5.1.4 Mailing Lists ......................................................................................................34

5.2 External Dissemination ......................................................................................34 5.2.1 Project Website .................................................................................................35 5.2.2 Booth and Presentations at the 2012 FuNeMS Workshop .................................37 5.2.3 Presentations at Scientific and Technological Events ........................................38 5.2.4 Meeting with the Advisory Board .......................................................................39 5.2.5 Journal Special Issues ......................................................................................39 5.2.6 Other Individual Dissemination Activities by the Project Partners ......................41

6. Conclusions ..................................................................................................... 42

7. References ....................................................................................................... 44


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1. Introduction

Dissemination of scientific and technological advances is an important objective of the EXALTED project. As such, EXALTED partners have devoted consistent efforts in maximizing dissemination of the project results and thus secure a lasting impact in both scientific and industrial communities with an interest on machine to machine communications. At the beginning of the project, a dissemination plan, detailed in EXALTED Deliverable D8.1 [1], was created. In it, the main dissemination objectives were outlined and several internal tools to manage information and its distribution were planned. Through the use of such tools, EXALTED dissemination objectives have been fulfilled with a high degree of success. In the scientific context, the Project has generated 52 publications in leading peer-reviewed journals and conferences. Moreover, members of the EXALTED project team have organized Journal Special Issues, tutorials at IEEE ICC and Globecom, among others, participated and chaired technical committees, and given keynote speeches, all these in the topic of M2M, and directly reporting results from the Project. Efforts in the industrial community have been directed mainly at the leading standards bodies, namely 3GPP, ETSI, and IETF. On all these, a total of 26 standards contributions have been submitted, most of them to 3GPP, through the industrial partners of the Project. These contributions address the most relevant aspects of M2M systems, namely device cost, scalability, and energy efficiency. Training activities aimed at educating highly skilled professionals to further expand M2M activity has also been a priority, which EXALTED has addressed through the organization of a training school, several tutorials, or lectures in graduate and undergraduate courses. This deliverable reports in detail on the activities on all these fronts. It is organized in a number of sections covering standardization (Section 2), publications (Section 3), event organization (Section 4), and other activities (Section 5).


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2. Activities in Standardisation Bodies and Industry Fora Promotion of solutions to standards bodies is an essential activity of EXLATED. This facilitates further scrutiny of the concepts and is essential for commercialization and adoption by industry. Some of the concepts of EXALTED proposed by EXALTED partners have been discussed and/or accepted to include in the specification by 3GPP, ETSI and IETF. As the standardization process for MTC is still on-going within many of these bodies some of the ideas conceptualised in EXALTED may be adopted in the future by the standards bodies. 3GPP realised the need for study of provisioning of low cost Machine Type communication (MTC) devices and concepts similar to that adopted by EXALTED. Many of the concepts from EXALTED were also adopted by 3GPP in their TR 36.888. Concepts for efficient small data transfer, optimization for MTC traffic, efficient random access concepts were among other concepts that were presented to 3GPP by EXALTED partners. In addition to 3GPP contributions related to embedded SIM were presented by EXALTED partners to ETSI. Moreover, contributions on packet routing and discovery protocols contributions were presented to IETF. The following list enumerates contributions that have been proposed for discussion or proposed for inclusion in standards by EXALTED partners to 3GPP:

1. R1-120795 “Report of email discussion on TR inputs for "Cost drivers of reference

LTE modem”, Vodafone 3GPP RAN1 #68, Dresden, Germany

2. R1-120925 “Text Proposal for section 5.3 of 3GPP TR 36.888”, Vodafone 3GPP

RAN1 #68, Dresden, Germany

3. R1-120891. “Updated TR 36.888”, Vodafone 3GPP RAN1 #68, Dresden, Germany

4. R1-120797 “Views on Cost reduction techniques for "Low cost MTC UE based on

LTE"”, Vodafone 3GPP RAN1 #68, Dresden, Germany

5. RP-120270 “TR 36.888 v1.0.0”, Vodafone 3GPP RAN #55, Xiamen, China

6. R1-121720 “Text proposal for TR 36.888 on restriction of techniques to low

performance MTC Ues”, Vodafone, Orange 3GPP RAN1 #68bis, Jeju, S.Korea

7. R2-113183 “Further Study of Access Performance for MTC” Alcatel-Lucent, Alcatel-

Lucent Shanghai Bell 3GPP TSG RAN WG2 #74, Barcelona, Spain

8. RP-110912 “Draft SID for further work on MTC for prioritized use cases by TSG SA”

Nokia Siemens Networks, Nokia Corporation, Alcatel-Lucent, MediaTek 3GPP

TSG-RAN #52, Bratislava, Slovakia

9. R2-114391 “Integrated Slotted Access with EAB for MTC”, Alcatel-Lucent, Alcatel-

Lucent Shanghai Bell 3GPP TSG RAN WG2 #75, Athens, Greece

10. R1-113334 “Considerations on potential solutions for low-cost MTC UEs”, Alcatel-

Lucent, Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell 3GPP TSG RAN WG1 #66bis, Zhuhai, China

11. R1-114068 “Next steps for Study on Provision of Low-Cost MTC UEs”, Alcatel-

Lucent, Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell 3GPP TSG RAN WG1 #67, San Francisco, USA

12. R1-120510 “Support of reduced maximum bandwidth for low-cost MTC UEs “,

Alcatel-Lucent, Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell 3GPP TSG RAN WG1 #68, Dresden,

Germany

13. R1-121255 “On single receive RF chain for low-cost MTC UEs”, Alcatel-Lucent,

Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell 3GPP TSG RAN WG1 #68bis, Jeju, Korea


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14. R1-121256 “On reduction of maximum transmit power for low-cost MTC UEs”,

Alcatel-Lucent, Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell 3GPP TSG RAN WG1 #68bis, Jeju,

Korea

15. R1-121257 “On half duplex operation for low-cost MTC UEs “, Alcatel-Lucent,

Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell 3GPP TSG RAN WG1 #68bis, Jeju, Korea

16. R1-123075 “3GPP TR 36.888 to include agreements from RAN1#69”, Vodafone

"3GPP RAN1 #69, Prague, Czech Republic

17. R1-123074 “Text Proposal on some aspects of section 9 of 3GPP TR 36.888”,

Vodafone "3GPP RAN1 #69, Prague, Czech Republic

18. R1-123072 “E-mail discussion summary for TP to clause 7 of 3GPP TR 36.888”,

Vodafone 3GPP RAN1 #69, Prague, Czech Republic

19. R1-123073 “Text Proposal for clause 7 of 3GPP TR 36.888”, Vodafone 3GPP RAN1

#69, Prague, Czech Republic

20. R1-122505 “SI conclusion for low cost MTC Ues” Alcatel-Lucent, Alcatel-Lucent

Shanghai Bell 3GPP TSG RAN WG1 #69, Prague, Czech Republic

21. R1-130462 “Feasibility of coverage extension of physical channels for MTC devices”,

Alcatel-Lucent, Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell, 3GPP TSG RAN WG1 #72, St. Julians,

Malta.

22. R1-130463 “Channel characteristics and channel estimation for extended coverage

MTC”, Alcatel-Lucent, Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell, 3GPP TSG RAN WG1 #72, St.

Julians, Malta.

The following list enumerates contributions that have been proposed for discussion or

proposed for inclusion in standards by EXALTED partners to IETF:

1. draft-kaiser-nd-pd-00 “Prefix Delegation extension to Neighbor Discovery protocol”,

CEA, Internet Engineering Task Force, 85th edition, Atlanta, November 2012

2. draft-mouton-mif-dhcpv6-drlo-02 Default Router List Option for DHCPv6 (DRLO)

CEA, Huawei Technologies, University of Luxembourg "Internet-Draft, Network

Working Group, September 2012

3. draft-petrescu-its-scenarios-reqs-01.txt Scenarios and Requirements for IP in

Intelligent Transportation Systems, CEA, Renault IETF, Vancouver, Canada

The following list enumerates contributions that have been proposed for discussion or proposed for inclusion in standards by EXALTED partners to ETSI:

1. ETSI TS 103 060 “Method for a harmonized definition of Low Duty Cycle

transmission (LDC) as a passive mitigation technique used by short range devices

and related conformance test Methods” Specialist Task Force STF and ERM meeting,

ETSI, Oct. 22nd, 2012.

3. Publications Publications are crucial in order to disseminate EXALTED results to the scientific community. Moreover, they have a long-term impact in the form of new findings. As the next sections illustrate, several articles have been published or accepted in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Smart Grids, or Mobile Computing. In


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addition, conference papers have targeted flagship conferences and workshops such as IEEE International Conference on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), GLOBECOM, or the Int'l Conference on Communications (ICC), as well as the workshops organized by EXALTED. In this section we list all publications directly related to EXALTED and authored by members of the EXALTED team. The project was duly acknowledged on all publications. Besides the authors, in each publication we identify the partner institution and in which workpackage of EXALTED the work was carried out. 3.1 Journals, Magazines, and Books

The following book chapter (1) and ten (10) journal publications have been recently published or have been accepted for publication in the coming months:

1. P. S. Bithas, Α. Lioumpas, and A. Alexiou (UPRC-WP4), "Mitigating Shadowing Effects Through Cluster-Head Cooperation Techniques," accepted for publication in IET on Networks, Dec 2012.

2. Y. Ma, R. Tafazolli, Z. Lu (UNIS-WP4), “Cluster-Based Differential Energy Detection for Spectrum Sensing in Multi-Carrier Systems”, To appear in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2012

3. Y. Jin, S. Vural, A. Gluhak, and K. Moessner (UNIS-WP4), “Task Allocation in Multi-hop Wireless Networks with Mobile Nodes”, To appear in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2012

4. S. Vural, P. Navaratnam, and R. Tafazolli (UNIS-WP4) “Transmission Range Assignment for Backbone Connectivity in Clustered Wireless Networks”, To appear in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 2012

5. J. Alonso-Zárate, J. Matamoros, D. Gregoratti, Mischa Dohler (CTTC-WP4), “Machine-to-machine communications in smart grid”, Book Chapter in E. Hossain, Z. Han, H.V. Poor (Edts), "Smart Grid Communications and Networking," Cambridge University Press, 2012.

6. K. Zheng, F. Hu, W. Xiangy, and M. Dohler (CTTC-WP3), “Radio Resource Allocation in LTE-Advanced Cellular Networks with M2M Communications”, To appear in IEEE Communications Magazine, 2012.

7. J. Alonso-Zárate, C. Crespo, Ch. Skianis, L. Alonso, and Ch. Verikoukis (CTTC-WP4), “Distributed Point Coordination Function for IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ad hoc Networks”, Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal, May 2012.

8. B. Devillers, D. Gunduz (CTTC-WP3), “A General Framework for the Optimization of Energy Harvesting Communication Systems with Battery Imperfections”, To appear in Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN)- Special Issue On Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks, April 2012.

9. D. Wei, Y. Jin, S. Vural, K. Moessner, R. Tafazolli (UNIS-WP4), "An Energy-efficient Clustering Solution for Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE Transactions On Wireless Communications, Vol. 10 , No. 11, Nov. 2011.

10. A. G. Gotsis, A. S. Lioumpas and A. Alexiou (UPRC-WP3), "Challenges and new Perspectives on Machine-to-Machine Scheduling over LTE Networks" IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, Sep 2012.

11. A. Bartoli, J. Hernández-Serrano, M. Soriano, M. Dohler, A. Kountouris and D. Barthel, (CTTC-WP4) "Secure Lossless Aggregation Over Fading & Shadowing Channels For Smart Grid M2M Networks" IEEE Transactions on Smart Grids, Special Issue on Smart Grid Security, vol. 2, no 4., pp. 844-864, June 2011.

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1. G. Cocco, D. Gunduz and C. Ibars (CTTC-WP3), “Streaming over Block-Fading Channels with Delay Constraint”, Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, April 2012.

2. A. G. Gotsis, A. S. Lioumpas and A. Alexiou (UPRC-WP3), "Analytical Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Realistic Time-Controlled M2M Scheduling over LTE Cellular Networks" submitted to Transactions on Emerging Telecommunication Technologies, Special Issue on Machine-to-Machine: An Emerging Communication Paradigm, Wiley, 2013.

3. N. Gligoric, T. Dimcic, S. Krco, D. Drajic, N. Chu, A. Obradovic (EYU-WP3), “M2M Device Management over Short Message Service (SMS)” submitted to Trans. on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, special issue on Machine-to-Machine: An Emerging Communication Paradigm.

4. N. Chu, D. Raouf, B. Corlay, M. Ammary, N. Gligoric, S. Krco, N. Ognjanovic, A. Obradovic (SWIR,EYU,TKS-WP4), “OMA-DM v1.x compliant Device Management for Lightweight M2M devices”, submitted to Trans. on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, special issue on Machine-to-Machine: An Emerging Communication Paradigm.

5. J. Matamoros, C. Anton-Haro (CTTC-WP4) "Compressed Spatial Field Estimation with M2M Capillary Networks" Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

6. S. Mirzadeh, H. Cruickshank, and R. Tafazolli, (UNIS-WP4) "Secure Device Pairing – A Survey" Submitted to IEEE Communication Surveys & Tutorials

7. G. Cocco, C. Ibars, N. Alagha (CTTC-WP3) "Coverage extension in heterogeneous satellite machine-to-machine networks" Transactions On Emerging Telecommunications Technologies

3.2 Conferences and Workshops

During the second year of the project, there have been fifty-three (53) contributions presented to, or accepted for, conferences and workshops. Out of them, thirteen (13) papers have been submitted by consortium members to the three workshops organized by the project in conjunction with IEEE-GLOBECOM’11, IEEE-WCNC’12 and IEEE-GLOBECOM’12 respectively. The following list enumerates papers have been accepted and/or published. In brackets we indicate the institution/instiution that the partners belong to, as well as the corresponding Workpackage in EXALTED.

1. G. Cocco, D. Gunduz, C. Ibars (CTTC-WP3) "Throughput and Delay Analysis in Video Streaming over Block-Fading Channels" Accepted IEEE International Conference on Communications 2013.

2. J. Matamoros and C. Antón-Haro (CTTC-WP4) "Traffic Aggregation Techniques for Environmental Monitoring in M2M Capillary Networks" Accepted IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-spring), Dresden

3. C. Qian, H. Chen, Y. Ma and R. Tafazolli, (UNIS-WP4)"A Novel Adaptive Hybrid-ARQ Protocol for Machine-to-Machine Communications" Accepted IEEE VTC Spring 2013

4. P. Blasco, D. Gunduz and M. Dohler (CTTC-WP4), "A Learning Theoretic Approach to Energy Harvesting Communication System Optimization", Globecom 2012 - Int'l Workshop on Machine-to-Machine Communications, Anaheim (CA), Dec. 2012.


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5. M. Grieger, S. Boob, G.Fettweis (TUD-WP3), "Large Scale Field Trial Results on Frequency Domain Compression for Uplink Joint Detection", Globecom 2012, Workshop on Multicell Cooperation, Anaheim (CA), Dec. 2012.

6. A. Bartoli, J. Hernández-Serrano, M. Soriano, M. Dohler, A. Kountouris and D. Barthel (CTTC-WP4), "Optimizing Energy-Efficiency of PHY-Layer Authentication in Machine-to-Machine Networks", Globecom 2012 - Int'l Workshop on Machine-to-Machine Communications, Anaheim (CA), Dec. 2012.

7. A. G. Gotsis, A. S. Lioumpas, and A. Alexiou (UPRC-WP3), "Evolution of Packet Scheduling for Machine-Type Communications over LTE:Algorithmic Design and Performance Analysis", Globecom 2012 - Int'l Workshop on Machine-to-Machine Communications, Anaheim (CA), Dec. 2012.

8. T. Predojev, J. Alonso-Zarate, L. Alonso, and C. Verikoukis (CTTC-WP4), "Energy Efficiency Analysis of a Cooperative Scheme for Wireless Local Area Networks", IEEE Global Conference on Communications (GLOBECOM), Annaheim (CA), Dec. 2012.

9. J. Alonso-Zarate, J. Sánchez Recacha, N. Zorba, A. Perez-Neira, and C. Verikoukis (CTTC-WP4), "Cooperative Communications: from Theory to Experimental Implementation", IEEE Global Conference on Communications (GLOBECOM), Anaheim (CA), Dec. 2012.

10. F. Vázquez Gallego, J. Alonso-Zarate, and L. Alonso (CTTC-WP4), "Energy Analysis of Distributed Neighbour Discovery Algorithms Based on Frame Slotted-ALOHA for Cooperative Networks", IEEE Global Conference on Communications (GLOBECOM 2012), Anaheim (CA), Dec. 2012.

11. P. S. Bithas, A. S. Lioumpas and A. Alexiou (UPRC-WP4), "A Hybrid Contention/Reservation Medium Access Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE Globecom 2012 - Int'l Workshop on Machine-to-Machine Comms., Anaheim (CA), Dec. 2012.

12. N. Gligorić, T. Dimčić, D.Drajić, S. Krčo, N. Chu, (EYU-TKS-SIERRAW, WP4) "Application-Layer Security Mechanism for M2M communication over SMS", 20th Telecommunications forum (TELFOR 2012), 20-22 November, Belgrade, Serbia

13. "N. Gligorić, T. Dimčić, D.Drajić, S. Krčo, I. Dejanović, N. Chu, A. Obradović" (EYU-TKS-SIERRAW, WP4), "CoAP over SMS Performance Evaluation for Machine to Machine Communication" 20th Telecommunications forum (TELFOR 2012), 20-22 November, Belgrade, Serbia

14. S. Imadali, A. Karanasiouy, A. Petrescu, I. Sifniadisy, and V. Vèquez (CEA, VID-WP4,7), "EHealth Service Support In IPv6 Vehicular Networks", VECON 2012, 2nd Int'l Workshop on Vehicular Communications and Networking (in conjunction with IEEE WiMob 2012), Barcelona (Spain), Oct. 2012.

15. M. R: Palattella, N. Accettura, M. Dohler, L. A. Grieco and G.Boggia (CTTC-WP4), "Traffic-Aware Time-Critical Scheduling In Heavily Duty-Cycled IEEE 802.15.4e for an Industrial IoT", IEEE Sensors 2012, Taipei (Taiwan), Oct. 2012.

16. T. Predojev, J. Alonso-Zarate, M. Dohler (CTTC-WP4), "Energy Analysis Of Cooperative and Duty-Cycled Systems In Shadowed Environments", IEEE Int'l


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Conference on Computer Aided Modelling, Design and Analysis (CAMAD'12), Barcelona (Spain), Sep. 2012.

17. J. Rico, B. Cendón (TST-WP4), "NFC Enabling Hospital Logistics System, NFC World Congress Conference", Nice - Sophia Antipolis, Sep. 2012.

18. G. Corbellini, C Abgrall, E. Calvanese Strinati, A. Duda (CEA-WP4), “Energy Evaluation of Preamble Sampling MAC Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks”, in Proc. Int'l Conference on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2012), Sydney (Australia), Sep. 2012.

19. G. Corbellini, E. Calvanese Strinati, A. Duda (CEA-WP4), “LA-MAC: Low-Latency Asynchronous MAC for Wireless Sensor Networks”, Int'l Conference on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2012), Sydney (Australia), Sep. 2012.

20. N. Michailow, S. Krone, M. Lentmaier, G. Fettweis (TUD-WP3), “Bit Error Rate Performance of Generalized Frequency Division Multiplexing”, Vehicular Technology Conference 2012 (VTC-Fall 2012), Quebec City (Canada), Sep. 2012.

21. J. Matamoros and C. Antón-Haro (CTTC-WP4), “Joint Pre-Coder Design and Greedy Power Allocation for Compressed Spatial Field Estimation”, in European Signal Processing Conference 2012 (EUSIPCO’12), Bucharest, Aug. 2012.

22. J. Rico, J. Sancho, V.Bataller, J.L. Villarroel, C. Rueda, R. Olmedo, J. Diez (TST-WP4), "Cooperative System for Avalanche Rescue", Int'l Conference on Wireless Communications in Unusual and Confined Areas, Clermont-Ferrand – France, Aug. 28-30, 2012.

23. W. Nitzold, M. Lentmaier and G. P. Fettweis (TUD-WP3), “Spatially Coupled Protograph-Based LDPC Codes for Incremental Redundancy”, in Proc. 7th International Symposium on Turbo Codes & Iterative Information Processing, Sweden, Aug. 2012.

24. J. Matamoros and C. Antón-Haro (CTTC-WP4), “Data Aggregation Schemes for Machine-to-Machine Gateways: Interplay with MAC Protocols”, in Proc. Future Networks and Mobile Summit 2012. Berlin (Germany), Jul. 4-6, 2012.

25. G. Botter, J. Alonso-Zarate, L. Alonso, F. Granelli, Ch. Verikoukis (CTTC-WP4), “Extending the Lifetime of M2M Wireless Networks through Cooperation”, In Proc. Workshop on Green Communications and Networking - Int'l Conference on Communications (ICC 2012), Ottawa (Canada), Jun. 2012.

26. J. Matamoros and C. Antón-Haro (CTTC-WP4), "Robust Estimation of Spatial Fields with Compressed Observations and Imperfect Phase Estimation in M2M Capillary Networks", in Proc. EURASIP Cognitive Information Processing Workshop (CIP 2012), Baiona (Spain), May 2012.

27. J. Rico, B. Cendón, J. Valiño (TST-WP4), “Bringing IoT to Hospital Logistics Systems”, Proc. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2012) - Workshop on Internet of Things Enabling Technologies: “Embracing the M2M Communications and Beyond”, Paris (France), Apr. 2012.

28. N. Accettura, M. R. Palattella, M. Dohler; L. A. Grieco, G. Boggia (CTTC-WP4), “Standardized Power-Efficient & Internet-Enabled Communication Stack for Capillary


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M2M Networks”, Proc. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2012) - Workshop on Internet of Things Enabling Technologies: “Embracing the M2M Communications and Beyond”, Paris (France), Apr. 2012.

29. G. A. Elkheir, A. Lioumpas, A. Alexiou (UPRC-WP3), “Energy Efficient Cooperative Scheduling based on Sleep-Wake Mechanisms”, Proc. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2012) - Workshop on Internet of Things Enabling Technologies: “Embracing the M2M Communications and Beyond”, Paris (France), Apr. 2012.

30. P. S. Bithas , A. S. Lioumpas and A. Alexiou (UPRC-WP4), “Enhancing the Efficiency of Cluster-based Networks through MISO Techniques”, Proc. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2012) - Workshop on Internet of Things Enabling Technologies: “Embracing the M2M Communications and Beyond”, Paris (France), Apr. 2012.

31. T. Predojev, J. Alonso-Zarate, M. Dohler (CTTC-WP4), “Energy Efficiency of Cooperative ARQ Strategies in Low Power Networks”, In Proc. IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Communications and Control for Sustainable Energy Systems: Green Networking and Smart Grids, Mar. 2012.

32. A. Gotsis, A. S. Lioumpas, A. Alexiou (UPRC-WP3), “Challenges and New Perspectives on Machine-to-Machine Scheduling over LTE Networks”, 28th meeting of the Wireless World Research forum, Piraeus, Greece, Apr. 2012.

33. P. Bithas, A. S. Lioumpas, A. Alexiou (UPRC-WP4), “Enhancing the Performance of Cluster-based Networks through Energy Efficient MISO Techniques”, 28th meeting of the Wireless World Research forum, Piraeus, Greece, Apr. 2012.

34. G. A. Elkheir, A. S. Lioumpas and A. Alexiou (UPRC-WP3), “Energy Efficient Cooperative Scheduling based on Sleep-Wake Mechanisms”, 28th meeting of the Wireless World Research forum, Piraeus, Greece, Apr. 2012.

35. N. Michailow, R. Datta, S. Krone, M. Lentmaier and G. Fettweis (TUD-WP3), “Generalized Frequency Division Multiplexing: A Flexible Multi-Carrier Modulation Scheme for 5th Generation Cellular Networks”, in Proc. GeMiC 2012: the 7th German Microwave Conference, Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany, Mar. 2012.

36. D. Gunduz and B. Devillers (CTTC-WP3), Multi-hop Communication with Energy Harvesting, The Fourth International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP’11), San Juan, Puerto Rico, December 13-16.

37. P. Cheraghi, Yi Ma, Z. Lu, and R. Tafazolli, (UNIS-WP3), “A Novel Low Complexity Differential Energy Detection for Sensing OFDM Sources in Low SNR Environment”, Globecom 2011 - IWM2M, Dallas (Tx), Dec, 2011.

38. D. Gunduz and B. Devillers (CTTC-WP3), "Two-hop Communication with Energy Harvesting", The Fourth International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP'11), San Juan, Puerto Rico, Dec. 13-16

39. F. Ganz, P. Barnaghi, F. Carrez, K. Moessner (UNIS-WP4), “A Mediated Gossiping Mechanism for Large-scale Sensor Networks”, Globecom 2011 - IWM2M, Dallas (Tx), Dec, 2011.


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40. A. Lioumpas, A. Alexiou (UPRC-WP3), "Uplink Scheduling for Machine-to-Machine Communications in LTE-based Cellular Systems", Globecom 2011 - Int'l Workshop on Machine-to-Machine Communications, Houston (Tx), Dec. 2011.

41. J. Matamoros and C. Antón-Haro (CTTC-WP4), “Power Allocation Schemes for Spatial Field Estimation with Compressed Observations in M2M Capillary Networks”, Globecom 2011 - Int'l Workshop on Machine-to-Machine Communications, Houston (Tx), Dec. 2011.

42. B. Devillers, D. Gunduz (CTTC-WP3), “Energy Harvesting Communication System with Battery Constraint and Leakage”, Globecom 2011 - Int'l Workshop on Machine-to-Machine Communications, Houston (Tx), Dec. 2011.

43. G. Cocco, D. Gunduz, C. Ibars (CTTC-WP3), “Application of different coding schemes for broadcast transmissions”, Eighth International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, Aachen, Germany, 6th - 9th Nov., 2011.

44. G. Cocco, D. Gunduz, C. Ibars (CTTC-WP3), "Real-time broadcasting over block-fading channels, In Proc. the Eighth International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS)", Aachen, Germany, 6th - 9th Nov., 2011.

45. N. Gligorić, S. Krčo, D. Drajić, S. Jokić, and B. Jakovljević ( EYU-TKS WP4) “M2M Device Management in LTE Networks”, Science telecommunication forum (TELFOR), Belgrade, Nov. 2011

46. G. Abou Elkheir, A. Lioumpas, A. Alexiou (UPRC-WP3), “Energy Efficient AF Relaying under Error Performance Constraints with Application to M2M Networks”, Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Sep. 2011.

47. A. Lioumpas, A. Alexiou, C. Antón-Haro, and P. Navaratnam (UPRC-CTTC-UNIS-WP2), “Expanding LTE for devices: Requirements, Deployment Phases and Target Scenarios”, Proc. IEEE/VDE European Wireless Conference (EW’11), April 2011.

48. J. Matamoros and C. Antón-Haro (CTTC-WP4), “Opportunistic Sampling for Random Field Estimation with M2M Capillary Networks”, Proc. IEEE/VDE European Wireless Conference (EW’11), April 2011.

49. J. Alonso-Zarate , L. Alonso, and C. Verikoukis, (CTTC-WP4) “Improving the Energy-Efficiency of Machine-to-Machine Communications with Cooperative ARQ”, Proc. Joint Workshop on Wireless Communication (Paris, France), Dec. 2010.

50. F. Ganz, P. Barnaghi, and F. Carrez, (UNIS-WP4) “Context-Aware Management of Sensor Networks”, Proc. Fifth International Conference on COMmunication System softWAre and middlewaRE (COMSWARE), Verona (Italy), July 2011.

51. F. Ganz, (UNIS-WP4) “Designing Smart Middleware for Wireless Sensor Networks”, The 12th annual Post Graduate Network Symposium on the Convergence of Telecommunications, Networking and Broadcasting, (PGNet2011), Liverpool, April 2011.

52. A. Lioumpas, A. Alexiou, (UPRC-WP3) “On the Switching Rate of ST-MIMO Systems with Energy-based Antenna Selection”, Proc. EuCap 2011, Rome, Italy, April 2011.


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53. A. Petrescu, M. Boc, C. Ibars, (CEA-CTTC WP3-4) “Joint IP Networking and Radio Architecture for Vehicular Networks”, International Conference on ITS Telecommunications (ITST 2011), St Petersburg, August 2011.

In addition, 4 more contributions were submitted to various conferences and workshops and are still under review

1. F. Ganz, P. Barnaghi, P. Navaratnam, and F. Carrez (UNIS-WP4)" Information Abstraction for Heterogeneous RealWorld Internet Data" Submitted to IEEE Int'l Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Turin, Italy., April 2013

2. S. Imadali, A. Karanasiou, A. Petrescu, I. Sifniadis, E. Vellidou, and P. Angelidis (CEA-VIDAVO, WP7) "Integration of eHealth Service in IPv6 Vehicular Networks" 3rd Int'l Conference on Ambient Media and Systems (Ambi-sys), Athens, Greece, March 2013-02-11

3. "S. Imadali, A. Petrescu, M. Boc, V. Veque" (CEA-WP4) "VULA: VIN-based Unique Local IPv6 Address Auto-configuration for VANET" Submitted IEEE WoWMoM 2013

4. J. Rico, J. Valiño, E. Epifanio (TST-WP4) "Cluster Head Assignment in Networks controlled by Gateway Entities (CHANGE)" Sumbitted to First International WorkShop on Energy-Aware Systems, Communications and Security (EASyCoSe 2013), to be held in conjunction with the 27th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2013), Barcelona, Spain, March 25-28.

4. Workshops and Training School 4.1 First International Workshop on Machine-to-Machine Communications

The first EXALTED International Workshop on Machine-to-Machine communications (IWM2M) was organised in conjunction with the IEEE Global Communication Conference 2011 (GLOBECOM 2011) in Houston, Texas, on the 9th December 2011. The workshop raised lots of interest and both the technical session, as well as the keynote speeches and the round table were very well attended. Bearing in mind that it was scheduled on the last day of a 5-day conference, and the large number of workshop running in parallel, the EXALTED workshop can be regarded as a very successful one. This section attempts to provide the rationale and the context for the organization of this workshop, further details on the preparatory works and resulting technical program, as well as the main technical conclusions drawn from the workshop along with future plans. 4.1.1 Rationale and Context Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications is expected to have a huge economic impact in the years to come, contributing to the automation of processes in industrial environments, and to remote operation of a wide range of machines (vending machines, digital signage, monitoring sensors, or energy management equipment). For this reason, M2M has received tremendous worldwide attention from the academic and industrial points of view. This is exemplified by the organization of successful tutorials in prestigious conferences (e.g. GLOBECOM, PIMRC, MONAMI, MOBILIGHT), the work being conducted in standardisation bodies such as ETSI, 3GPP, IEEE or IETF; or a number of plenary sessions organized e.g. at the Wireless World Research Forum.


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All this clearly motivates the organization of a conference workshop aimed to gather researchers, engineers and practitioners, both from academia and industry (universities, research centres, network operators, regulatory bodies, service providers), as well as end users, to present and debate advanced M2M communication systems, technologies, and applications. Particular attention was paid to put those discussions in the context of current M2M-related standardization activities in 3GPP, ETSI, IEEE and IETF. As an example, one of the keynote speeches addressed recent standardization work in this field.

Figure 4-1: IWM2M Workshop in GLOBECOM 2011. GLOBECOM is the flagship conference of the IEEE Communication Society. The program includes technical symposia on cutting edge communications research and technological trends development, tutorials and workshops on emerging technical and business sessions on current issues in communication technologies. The number of attendees to this yearly event is on the order of 2.000, from 60+ countries all over the world. The conference is always held in the United States. Therefore, GLOBECOM was the ideal vehicle for EXALTED to bring project results to the attention of a very large audience (with emphasis in researchers working in institutions from overseas); and to exchange views and discuss results on this exciting field of M2M communications with them. 4.1.2 Organising Committee, Call for Papers and Workshop Website EXALTED partners UNIS, SC, CTTC, and VGSL contributed several members to the organising committee of the IWM2M workshop. The organising committee was chaired by Prof. R Tafazolli (UNIS) and co-chaired by T. Lestable (SC), C. Antón-Haro (CTTC) and T. Gill (VGSL). The Technical Program Committee (TPC) was led by P. Navaratnam (UNIS), together with P. Rost (NEC, not a partner in EXALTED). The total number of TPC members was 28, and counted with selected representatives from industry and academia, as well as from the Americas, Europe, and Asia/Pacific region.

The workshop website (http://iwm2m.cttc.es/2011, see Fig. Figure 4-2 below) was hosted and maintained by the CTTC. As usual, it included information on the scope of the workshop, instructions for authors, the technical program, as well as information on keynote speakers (bios and abstracts of their talks). The EXALTED project and EC’s Seventh Framework Program were properly acknowledged in the ‘Sponsors’ section of the home page. The corresponding Call for Papers (Figure 4-3) was posted in a large number of mailing lists such as those of the IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC),

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ETSI M2M Technical Committee, Radio Access & Spectrum (RAS) cluster, other on-going EC-funded projects, personal contacts, to name a few.

Figure 4-2: Website of the IWM2M

Workshop organised by the EXALTED project.

Figure 4-3: Call for Papers of the IWM2M Workshop.

4.1.3 Peer Review Process The deadline for paper submissions was originally set to 7th July 2011 and then extended to 19th July 2011. In total, the workshop attracted 26 submissions from all over the world. The breakdown of contributions into countries is as follows:

Spain: 5

USA: 4

UK: 4

China: 2

Taiwan: 2

Israel: 1

Greece: 1

Italy: 1

Germany: 1

Croatia: 1

Egypt: 1

France: 1

Romania: 1

South Africa: 1

Each paper received at least three reviews from TPC members. Upon completion of the peer review process, thirteen (13) papers were accepted to be orally presented in the workshop. This corresponds to an acceptance ratio of 50% which was needed to guarantee a high-quality workshop. EXALTED partners CEA, UPRC, UNIS, TST, and CTTC submitted papers to this workshop with results of the technical activities being carried out in the project. 4.1.4 Technical program The workshop format included technical sessions, keynote speeches, and one panel discussion. The final schedule was as follows:


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Next, we include the bibliographic references of the papers presented in the technical sessions:

1. Uplink Scheduling for Machine-to-Machine Communications in LTE-based Cellular Systems. Athanasios Lioumpas, Angeliki Alexiou (University of Piraeus, Greece).

2. Performance Analysis of a Distributed Resource Allocation Scheme for D2D Communications. Marco Belleschi (University of Siena, Italy), Gabor Fodor (Ericsson Research, Sweden), Andrea Abrardo (University of Siena, Italy).

3. Power Allocation Schemes for Spatial Field Estimation with Compressed Observations in M2M Capillary Networks. Javier Matamoros, Carles Antón-Haro (Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain).

4. Prioritized Random Access with Dynamic Access Barring for RAN Overload in 3GPP LTE-A Networks. Jen-Po Cheng , Chia-han Lee (Academia Sinica, Taiwan), Tzu-Ming Lin (ITRI, Taiwan).

5. Throughput Comparison of Random Access Methods with M2M Customers in LTE Networks. Ki-Dong Lee, Sang Kim, and Byung Yi (LG Electronics Mobile Research, USA).

6. A Novel Low Complexity Differential Energy Detection for Sensing OFDM Sources in Low SNR Environment. Parisa Cheraghi, Yi Ma, Zhengwei Lu, Rahim Tafazolli (University of Surrey, UK).

7. Energy Harvesting Communication System with Battery Constraint and Leakage. Bertrand Devillers, Deniz Gunduz (CTTC, Spain).

8. Power Saving for Machine to Machine Communications in Cellular Networks. Hua Chao, Yu Chen, Jinsong Wu (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Shanghai, P.R. China)


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9. Energy-Efficient Data Collection in WSN with Network Coding. Stephan F. Pfletschinger, Monica Navarro, Christian Ibars (CTTC, Spain).

10. IoMANETs: Mobility Architecture for Wireless M2M Networks. Andrew Attwood, MadjidMerabti, Omar Abuelmaatti (Liverpool John Moores University, UK).

11. Mobile Cloudable Applications - New Way of Distributing Mobile Tasks Into the Cloud. Sebastian Presecan (iQuest Technologies, Romania).

12. A Mediated Gossiping Mechanism for Large-scale Sensor Networks. Frieder Ganz, PayamBarnaghi, Francois Carrez, Klaus Moessner (University of Surrey, UK).

13. VALUE CHAIN Scenarios for Machine to Machine ECOSYSTEM. Oswald Jumira (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa).

4.1.4.1 Keynote Speakers The workshop counted with two keynote speakers from key companies in the M2M arena, namely, InterDigital and Numerex. The first keynote speech was given by Narayan Menon, who is Vice President R&D at InterDigital. In his role, Dr. Menon drives the innovation and implementation of next-generation wireless solutions covering connectivity & bandwidth management, cognitive radio, machine-machine (M2M) communications, multimedia delivery and advanced radio and baseband solutions building on LTE and WLAN/PAN networks. He has over 20 years of experience in the wireless field, holding leadership roles at Siemens Mobile Networks, Omnipoint Technologies and Hughes Network Systems in the development of TDMA, GSM/GPRS and early 3G systems. He is an inventor on over 30 U.S. patents. His keynote, which was entitled “Next-generation Machine-to-Machine solutions - Delivering M2M services over Heterogeneous Networks”, addressed issues on next-generation strategies and system architectures for seamlessly integrating diverse M2M devices with cellular networks, providing network operators the ability to remotely manage and control M2M devices and to offer M2M network services to third parties.

Figure 4-4: Keynote Speakers: Narayan Menon (left), Jeffrey O. Smith (right, intro).

Dr. Jeffrey O. Smith, who was in charge of the afternoon keynote speech, is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Numerex. He is also a Chairman of TIA’s TR-50 Smart Device Communications Engineering Committee and convener of the GSC Machine-to-Machine Standardization Standardization Task Force (MSTF). Prior to that, he worked as a scientist in a number of companies (Motorola, The Robotics Institute, Superconducting Super Collider)


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and has founded/co-founded a number of companies (OnRamp Technologies, SensorLogic, Via; Vericenter; Vaultnet etc). After founding UBLIP, it was acquired by Numerex, a company at the vanguard of the M2M communications industry. His keynote, entitled “M2M standardization: Status, Trends and Challenges”, presented a brief overview of the M2M standardization efforts among major standards development organizations and addressed some of the current challenges. Special emphasis was given to the growing importance of security in the M2M ecosystem, and the work of the Telecommunications Industry Association and the Global Standards Collaboration (GSC) M2M Standardization Task Force.

Figure 4-5: One slide of the “M2M standardization: Status, Trends and Challenges” keynote speech.

4.1.4.2 Panel Discussion The panel discussion of the workshop focused on technical and business challenges associated to the deployment of large scale M2M Networks. The panel was moderated by Thierry Lestable (Sagemcom) and counted with the participation of the following panellists:

Narayan Menon (InterDigital)

Jeffrey O. Smith (Numerex)

Carles Antón-Haro (CTTC)

Piraba Navaratnam (University of Surrey) The discussions revolved around four topics that were conveniently introduced by the moderator in his introductory speech, namely,

Governance needs in the field of M2M communications (e.g. EC Mandates: Smart Meters – M441, Smart Grids – M490, ITSM453, eCall).

Suitable evaluation methodologies for M2M.

Most relevant standards, industry alliances and global cooperations worldwide.

Business models and value chains.


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The discussions among the panellists were very lively and stimulated a number of questions from and interactions with the audience.

Figure 4: Panel Discussion. Panellists: Narayan Menon, Jeffrey O. Smith, Carles Antón-Haro, Piraba Navaratnam (left to right).

4.1.5 Main Conclusions from the Workshop and Future Plans In this section, we present the main research trends, topics and, also, conclusions that can be drawn from the papers presented in the workshop. A first group of papers focused on radio access technologies and protocols for cellular networks. The fact that, in some applications, the number of machine-type communications (MTC) devices is potentially large renders the uplink scheduling an essential issue towards supporting M2M communications via cellular networks. In this line, Alexiou et al investigate a number of scheduling schemes for the uplink of LTE-based cellular systems, which take into account both the channel conditions and the maximum allowed delay of each device requesting to be served. By doing so, the number of effectively served requests can be substantially increased. Complementarily, other authors propose novel prioritized random access schemes aimed to efficiently solve the radio access network (RAN) overload problem which, again, are likely to occur when the number of MTC devices is large. This is achieved by (i) pre-allocating RACH resources for different MTC classes with class-dependent backoff procedures; and (ii) preventing a large number of simultaneous RACH attempts by using dynamic access barring (DAB). The problem of designing efficient random access mechanisms is closely related with that of constructing large pools of spreading sequences (codes) for the uplink of CDMA networks. To that aim, Yi et al propose advanced design methodologies which leverage on a combined use of the well-known zero-correlation-zone (ZCZ) and Gold sequences. As a result, up to 256 devices can be served simultaneously, with better performance than that of 64 devices whose signals are spread by traditional (e.g. Kasami or PN) sequences. Energy aspects in MTC communications also attracted considerable attention. Some authors, for instance, investigate enhanced power-saving mechanisms for devices, radio access and core networks networks, in which the M2M devices can work well with simplified activities under optimized signalling flow. On a different key, the contribution by Pfletschinger et al advocates for the introduction of network coding as a means to increase the energy efficiency of data collection in capillary networks. The underlying idea is to make


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transmissions more robust to e.g., network protocol failures by leveraging on the overhearing (opportunistic listening) of the transmitted data. Complementarily, other authors focus on the design of throughput-optimal offline transmission (scheduling) policies for energy-harvesting devices. They also analyse the impact of realistic battery constraints such as degradation of storage capacity or energy leakage. In M2M networks, gateways are often used to relay, aggregate and communicate information from capillary networks to more capable (e.g. IP-based) ones. For this reason, a third block of papers revolved around suitable strategies for data aggregation in LTE gateways. To that aim, an effective Gateway- to-Gateway (G2G) communication is typically needed which can be facilitated by the introduction of the mediated gossip-based mechanisms proposed by Moessner et al. In a context of spatial field estimation via M2M capillary networks, other authors proposed advanced distributed pre-coding scheme based on the Karhunen-Loève transform capable of obtaining an over-the-air compressed representation of the set of observations. Topic-wise, the workshop was completed with one paper dealing with new service and business models. More specifically, its focus was on the adoption of new revenue models suitable for large M2M networks. The authors advocate for the creation of a service platform that adds value and functionality to the devices and is a result of a combination of synergies between device manufacturers, application developers and mobile operators. They also discuss several value chain scenarios wherein all stakeholders assume different levels of control over the customer relationship and the assets. 4.2 Internet of Things enabling Technologies: Embracing the M2M Communications and Beyond

A second workshop was organized by Exalted during the 2012 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2012). The workshop, entitled Internet of Things Enabling Technologies: “Embracing the M2M Communications and Beyond”, took place on April 1st, 2012, and it raised a lot of interest and enough high quality papers were received for a full day workshop. This section provides the rationale and context for the organization of this workshop, as well as further details on the preparatory works, technical program, and main conclusions drawn from the workshop. 4.2.1 Rationale and Context As in the first IWM2M workshop, this workshop was organized in order to gather researchers, engineers and practitioners, both from academia and industry (universities, research centres, network operators, regulatory bodies, service providers), as well as end users, in one of the flagship conferences of the IEEE Communications Society. WCNC is one of the main conferences of the IEEE Communications Society. It attracts experts worldwide and typically has high attendance. It offers technical tracks on related topics such as Physical layer, MAC layer, Wireless Networks, and Services and Applications. The 2012 edition was conveniently held in Paris, which facilitated the organization of the workshop by the EXALTED project team. In addition, it was possible to co-organize the workshop with NOME-IoT. 4.2.2 Organising Committee, Call for Papers and Workshop Website


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Several EXALTED partners contributed to the organization of the project, as general chairs (A. Alexiou, UPRC, D. Raouf, SC), as part of the steering committee (C. Anton-Haro, CTTC, S. Krco, EYU), as TPC chairs (S. Saur, ALUD, A. Petrescu, CEA), and as TPC members. The total number of TPC members was 25, including selected representatives from industry and academia, as well as from the Americas, Europe, and Asia/Pacific region.

The workshop website http://iot-et2012.weebly.com (see Figure 4-6 below) included information about the scope of the workshop, topics of interest, as well as the various organizing committees. A note on the organization of the workshop by the EXALTED project appeared in the section ‘About the Workshop’. The corresponding Call for Papers (Figure 4-7) was posted in a large number of mailing lists and attracted a high number of submissions.

Figure 4-6: Website of the WCNC Workshop organised by the EXALTED project.

Figure 4-7: Call for Papers of the WCNC Workshop.

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4.2.3 Peer Review Process The workshop attracted 40 submissions from all over the world. Each paper received at least three reviews from TPC members. Upon completion of the peer review process, it appeared that 20 papers received high ranking which motivated the WCNC 2012 main conference organizers to dedicate the whole workshop to present orally these 20 papers and remove keynote speaker intervention and panel discussion from the initial program. This demonstrates that the workshop attracted a lot of papers of high-level quality. 4.2.4 Technical Program The final workshop program included 4 technical sessions in the topics of Smart Grid and RFID Technologies, M2M Network Architecture, Application and Experiment, and Energy Efficiency. The list of papers presented according to presentation schedule follows: S1: Smart Grid and RFID Technologies Chair: Angeliki Alexiou (University of Piraeus, Greece) M2M Communication in Smart Grids: Implementation Scenarios and Performance Analysis

Syed Abdul Salam (University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan); Sahibzada Ali Mahmud (University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan); Gul Khan (University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar, Pakistan); Hamed Saffa Al-Raweshidy (University of Brunel, United Kingdom)

Enabling Smart Grid with ETSI M2M Standards

Guang Lu (InterDigital Communications, Canada); Dale Seed (InterDigital, USA); Michael Starsinic (InterDigital, USA); Chonggang Wang (InterDigital Communications, USA); Paul Russell (InterDigital, USA)

Ultra Low-Power UWB-RFID System for Precise Location-Aware Applications

Yuan Zhou (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore); Choi Look Law (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Jingjing Xia (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Prototyping a Multi-Root ONS

Roberto Quilez (INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France); Nathalie Mitton (INRIA Lille-Nord Europe, CNRS UMR 8022, IRCICA, USTL, France); Marcelo Dias de Amorim (UPMC Sorbonne Universités, France); Nicolas Pauvre (GS1 France, France)

A Secure Tag Ownership Transfer Scheme in a Closed Loop RFID System

Robin Doss (Deakin University, Australia); Wanlei Zhou (Deakin University, Australia)

S2: M2M Network Architecture Chair: Djelal Raouf (Sagemcom Energy&Telecom, France) UPnP: Breaking out of the LAN

Jim Grimmett (University of Bath, United Kingdom); Eamonn O'Neill (University of Bath, United Kingdom) Improving Vertical Handovers using IEEE 802.21 Services and Multicast Addressing

Michel Bonfim (Federal Univerty of Ceará, Brazil); Miguel Franklin de Castro (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil); Stenio Fernandes (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil); Rossana Maria de Castro Andrade (Federal University of Ceara, Brazil); Ahmed Karmouch (University of Ottawa, Canada)

Supporting Efficient Machine-to-Machine Communications in the Future Mobile Internet

Jun Li (Rutgers University & Rutgers University, USA); Yanyong Zhang (Rutgers University, USA); Kiran Nagaraja (Rutgers University, USA); Dipankar Raychaudhuri (Rutgers University, USA)

Future Challenges in Efficiently Supporting M2M in the LTE Standards

Martin Beale (IPWireless Inc., United Kingdom) UWB channel modeling for objects evolving in impulsive environnements

Nourddine Azzaoui (Université Blaise Pascal, France); Clavier Laurent (IEMN & Institut TELECOM, TELECOM Lille 1, France)

S3: Application and Experiment Chair: Chonggang Wang (InterDigital Communications, USA) Bringing IoT to Hospital Logistics Systems

Juan Rico (TST Sistemas, Spain); Bruno Cendón (TST Sistemas, Spain); Jorge Lanza (University of Cantabria, Spain); Javier Valino (TST Sistemas, Spain)

WebIoT: A Web Application Framework for the Internet of Things

Angelo P. Castellani (University of Padova, Italy); Moreno Dissegna (University of Padova, Italy); Nicola Bui (University of Padova & Patavina Technologies, Italy); Michele Zorzi (Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy)

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Rina Wu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Yuan Cao (Lehigh University, USA); Chi Harold Liu (IBM Research - China, P.R. China); Pan Hui (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories & Univeristy of Cambridge, Germany); Li Li (IBM Research - China, P.R. China); Erwu Liu (Tongji University, P.R. China)

Wireless Networks for Smart Surveillance: Technologies, Protocol Design and Experiments

Milo Spadacini (Politecnico di Milano & Comelit S.p.A., Italy); Stefano Savazzi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Monica Nicoli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Sergio Nicoli (Comelit S.p.A. BG Italy, Italy)

Secure Bootstrapping of Nodes in a CoAP Network

Olaf Bergmann (Universitaet Bremen, Germany); Stefanie Gerdes (Universitaet Bremen, Germany); Silke Schäfer (Universitaet Bremen, Germany); Florian Junge (Universitaet Bremen, Germany); Carsten Bormann (Universität Bremen, Germany)

S4: Energy-Efficiency Chair: Robin Doss (Deakin University, Australia) Standardized Power-Efficient & Internet-Enabled Communication Stack for Capillary M2M Networks

Nicola Accettura (Politecnico di Bari, Italy); Maria Rita Palattella (SnT, University of Luxembourg, Luxemburg); Mischa Dohler (CTTC, Spain); Luigi Alfredo Grieco (Politecnico di Bari, Italy); Gennaro Boggia (Politecnico di Bari, Italy)

How Low Energy is Bluetooth Low Energy? Comparative Measurements with ZigBee/802.15.4

Matti Siekkinen (Aalto University, Finland); Markus Hiienkari (Aalto University, Finland); Jukka K. Nurminen (Aalto University, Finland); Johanna Maria Nieminen (Nokia Research Center, Finland)

Energy Efficient Cooperative Scheduling based on Sleep-Wake Mechanisms

Georgina Abou Elkheir (University of Piraeus, Greece); Athanasios Lioumpas (University of Piraeus, Greece); Angeliki Alexiou (University of Piraeus, Greece)

Enhancing the Efficiency of Cluster-based Networks through MISO Techniques

Petros S. Bithas (National Observatory of Athens, Greece); Athanasios Lioumpas (University of Piraeus, Greece); Angeliki Alexiou (University of Piraeus, Greece)

Performance Evaluation of Radio Access Network overloading from Machine Type Communications in LTE-A Networks

Ming-Yuan Cheng (National Taiwan University, Taiwan); Guan-Yu Lin (National Taiwan University, Taiwan); Hung-Yu Wei (NTU, Taiwan); Alex Hsu (MediaTek, Taiwan)

4.2.5 Main Conclusions from the Workshop and Future Plans The Internet of Things Enabling Technologies: “Embracing the M2M Communications and Beyond” was very successfully carried out and well attended. The four technical sessions covered crucial aspects in M2M. Air interface and energy efficiency were covered in several presentations, and there was also an opportunity to present interesting applications of upcoming M2M technology for hospitals, the Beijing underground, and the Smart Grid. 4.3 Second International Workshop on Machine-to-Machine Communications

The second EXALTED International Workshop on Machine-to-Machine communications (IWM2M) was organised in conjunction with the IEEE Global Communication Conference 2012 (GLOBECOM 2012) in Anaheim, CA, USA, on the 7th of December 2012. As in its first edition, the workshop raised a lot of interest and was among the best attended workshops in the Conference. In this section we describe preliminary works, the actual event, and the main technical conclusions that were achieved. 4.3.1 Rationale and Context During the year after the first IWM2M workshop, interest on M2M communications has been expanding as more examples of successful M2M deployments have become a reality. Therefore, a follow-up workshop of the successful IWM2M was the ideal setting to discuss the evolution of technology, new applications, and to present novel technical solutions enabling an ever increasing array of applications. Therefore, the Second IWM2M was envisioned and work started toward its organization, with similar goals as in the first edition, and aiming at bringing together again researchers, engineers and practitioners, both from academia and industry.


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Globecom proved to be an ideal setting for the first IWM2M; therefore, the Second IWM2M was also organized in conjunction with the Flagship Conference of the IEEE Communications Society. In addition, several activities devoted to M2M took place in Globecom, such as the tutorial on “M2M in Smart Grid & Smart Cities: Technologies, Standards, and Applications”, authored by EXALTED team members from CTTC, and many technical presentations on the subject. 4.3.2 Organising Committee, Call for Papers and Workshop Website EXALTED partners UNIS, SC, CTTC, and VGSL contributed several members to the organising committee of the IWM2M workshop. The organising committee was chaired by Prof. R Tafazolli (UNIS) and co-chaired by T. Lestable (SC), C. Antón-Haro (CTTC) and T. Gill (VGSL). The Technical Program Committee (TPC) was led by P. Navaratnam (UNIS), together with P. Rost (NEC, not a partner in EXALTED). The total number of TPC members was 29, and counted with selected representatives from industry and academia, as well as from the Americas, Europe, and Asia/Pacific region.

The workshop website (http://iwm2m.cttc.es, see Figure 4-9 below) was hosted and maintained by the CTTC.

Figure 4-8. Website of the 2nd IWM2M Workshop organized by the EXALTED Project.

Figure 4-9. Call for Papers of the 2nd IWM2M Workshop.


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4.3.3 Peer Review Process IWM2M papers were assigned to members of the Technical Program Committee for their review. TPC members assigned each paper to at least three independent reviewers, all of them experts in the relevant technical disciplines. Overall, 35 papers were submitted, and 16 papers were accepted, resulting in an acceptance rate of 46%. 4.3.4 Technical program The following table contains the full technical program of the Workshop.

Table 4-1. Technical Program of Second IWM2M

08:30 - 08:45

Introduction Prof. Rahim Tafazolli, Workshop Chair (University of Surrey, UK)

08:45 - 09:15

Keynote Speech 1 Enhancing LTE to create a viable long term evolution for M2M communications Martin Beale (General Dynamics Broadband, UK)

Session 1 - Resource Management Session Chair:Rahim Tafazolli (University of Surrey, UK)

09:15 - 09:35 Evolution of Packet Scheduling for Machine-Type Communications over LTE: Algorithmic Design and Performance Analysis Antonis G Gotsis, Athanasios Lioumpas, Angeliki Alexiou (University of Piraeus, Greece)

09:35 - 09:55 RAN Overload control for Machine Type Communications in LTE Anna Larmo, Riikka Susitaival (Ericsson Research, Finland)

09:55 - 10:15

Coffee Break

Session 1 - Resource Management (cont'd) Session Chair:Rahim Tafazolli (University of Surrey, UK)

10:15 - 10:35

Energy and Delay Analysis of LTE-Advanced RACH Performance under MTC Overload Mikhail Gerasimenko, Vitaly Petrov, Olga Galinina, Sergey Andreev,Yevgeni Koucheryavy (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)

10:35 - 10:55

On Resource Allocation for Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Communications in Cellular Networks Harpreet S Dhillon (The University of Texas at Austin, USA), Howard Huang , Harish Viswanathan (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA), Reinaldo Valenzuela (Lucent Technologies, USA)

Session 2 - Energy-efficiency Session Chair:Thierry Lestable (Sagemcom SAS, France)

10:55 - 11:15 Energy-Efficient Power Allocation for M2M Communications with Energy Harvesting Transmitter


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Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Robert Schober (University of British Columbia, Canada)

11:15 - 11:35 Reducing Energy Consumption of LTE Devices for Machine-to-Machine Communication Tuomas Tirronen, Anna Larmo (Ericsson Research, Finland), Joachim Sachs (Ericsson Research, Germany), Niclas Wiberg (Ericsson Research, Sweden), Bengt Lindoff (Ericsson AB, Sweden)

11:35 - 11:55 A Learning Theoretic Approach to Energy Harvesting Communication System Optimization Pol Blasco, Deniz Gündüz, Mischa Dohler (CTTC, Spain)

11:55 - 12:15 Optimizing Energy-Efficiency of PHY-Layer Authentication in Machine-to-Machine Networks Andrea Bartoli (CTTC, Spain), Juan Hernández-Serrano (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain), Miguel Soriano (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain), Mischa Dohler (CTTC, Spain), Apostolos Kountouris (France Telecom, France), Dominique Barthel (Orange Labs, France)

12:15 - 13:30

Lunch Break

13:30 - 14:00 Keynote Speech 2 Machine-to-Machine in Smart Cities – Shift of Industries Mischa Dohler (CTTC and Worldsensing S.L., Spain)

14:00 - 15:00 Panel Discussion Moderator: Rahim Tafazolli Panellists: Martin Beale, Mischa Dohler, Thierry Lestable

Session 3 - Medium Access Control Session Chair: Antonis G. Gotsis (University of Piraeus, Greece)

15:00 - 15:20 A Hybrid Contention/Reservation Medium Access Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks Petros S. Bithas, Athanasios Lioumpas, Angeliki Alexiou (University of Piraeus, Greece)

15:20 - 15:40 Enhancements to CDMA2000 1x for M2M Communications Rashid Attar, Linhai He, Christopher Lott, Ravi Patwardhan, Jing Sun (Qualcomm, USA)

15:40 - 16:00 Coffee Break

Session 3 - Medium Access Control (cont'd) Session Chair: Antonis G. Gotsis (University of Piraeus, Greece)

16:00 - 16:20 Code-Expanded Random Access for Machine-Type Communications Nuno K Pratas, Henning Thomsen, Čedomir Stefanović, Petar Popovski (Aalborg University, Denmark)

16:20 - 16:40 Feasibility Study of IEEE 802.11ah Radio Technology for IoT and M2M use Cases Ali Hazmi, Jukka Rinne, Mikko Valkama (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)

Session 4 - Selected Topics Session Chair: Peter Rost (NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany)


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16:40 - 17:00 Cooperative Coverage Extension in Heterogeneous Machine-to-Machine Networks Giuseppe Cocco, Christian Ibars (CTTC, Spain), Nader Alagha (European Space Agency, The Netherlands)

17:00 - 17:20 Providing Statistical QoS Guarantees in Large Cognitive Machine-to-Machine Networks Shih Chun Lin, Lei Gu, Kwang-Cheng Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

17:20 - 17:40 Sparsity Aware Multiuser Detection for Machine to Machine Communication Fabian Monsees, Carsten Bockelmann, Dirk Wübben, Armin Dekorsy (University of Bremen, Germany)

17:40 - 18:00 Service-domain solutions to radio interference for M2M communications and networking Milos Tesanovic, Paul Bucknell, Hind Munzer Chebbo, Jumoke Ogunbekun (Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe Ltd., United Kingdom)

18:00 Close-up

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Figure 4-10. Highlights of the technical sessions of the 2nd IWM2M Workshop.

4.3.4.1 Keynote Speakers The workshop featured two keynote speakers. In the morning, Martin Beale, of General Dynamics, discussed serious efforts underway to make LTE more suitable for low end machine devices. In the afternoon, Mischa Dohler, of CTTC, discussed the importance of an emerging technology, namely low power WIFI, in the M2M arena. Such a technology is being standardized as 802.11ah, and presents the important advantage of being compatible with the extensive WIFI infrastructure deployed as of today.

Figure 4-11. 2nd IWM2M Keynote Speakers.

4.3.4.2 Panel Discussion The panel discussion featured interesting topics brought up by the panelists and there was a high level of participation from the audience. One of the most discussed topics was the speed of deployment of M2M services and applications, judged slower than expected by some experts. It was pointed out that a possible explanation was that many services benefited society at large but there was not a clear beneficiary that would pay for the investment. As possible ways forward, changes in regulation or government stimuli were proposed.


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Figure 4-12. 2nd IWM2M panelists during the discussion.

4.3.5 Main Conclusions from the Workshop and Future Plans The workshop was successfully completed, and the most relevant topics on the development of M2M communications were duly addressed. First, regarding basic research, the workshop contributed relevant results to improve the performance of M2M, as well as advanced research on possible adaptations of the 3GPP LTE standard to better support the three main characteristics of machine devices, namely cost, scalability, and energy efficiency. Second, regarding technology, discussions during the workshop identified LTE and 802.11ah (low power WIFI) as dominant technologies for M2M. Third, in the applications domain, new applications were presented, and a number of attendees represented parties interested in new M2M applications, which represented a very valid contribution as well.

Figure 4-13. Novel results presented in the 2nd IWM2M improving the main performance indicators for M2M communications.

4.3.5.1 Future Plans The IWM2M may be considered as a well-established event for interested parties in the M2M industry. It is our opinion that the workshop may continue to be successful even as a standalone event, after the completion of the EXALTED project. It is expected that this


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discussion will take place during the beginning of 2013, and a decision will be made on whether a third edition of the workshop is organized. 4.4 Senzations Training School

EXALTED’s training school was organized in cooperation with other EC funded projects, namely, LOLA, Smart Santander, HOBNET and IoT6 in the context of senZations training school in Mecavnik (Serbia). The senZations training school, now in its seventh edition, has become an annual event on the agenda of young researcher talents across Europe and other parts of the world. It covers in depth a range of advanced topics from wireless sensor networks to M2M to Internet of Things, as well as their applications. As for the methodology, it combines lectures on fundamental and applied aspects of the Internet of Things with hands-on tutorials and experimentation. The school was held in the first week of September 2012. The corresponding website http://senzations.cttc.es, was hosted by CTTC. EXALTED was a co-organizer of the event and, in addition, contributed five (out of the twelve) lecturers, from UNIS, TKS, CTTC, UNIPI and EYU.

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Figure 4-14: Website of the SENZATIONS training school which is co-organised by the EXALTED project. The school provided overall training to students with lectures on fundamental/applied aspects of the IoT and hands-on tutorials and experimentation. The school had 47 participants from 16 countries (Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Netherlands, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, South Africa, Switzerland, UK). It had 11 lecturers from CTTC, U. Luebeck, U. Surrey, U. Piraeus, Ericsson, Sensinode, Telekom Serbia, the IoT Council, and the NCI Agency.


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Figure 4-15. Lectures and social activities during the SENZATIONS training school.

5. Other Dissemination Activities This section summarizes other internal and external dissemination activities of EXALTED that are not yet discussed in preceding sections Error! Reference source not found. and Error! Reference source not found.. These are face-to-face meetings, phone conferences, collaboration tools, the project website, participation at scientific and technological events, exchange with the Advisory Board and other related ICT projects, and additional individual dissemination activities by project partners. 5.1 Internal Dissemination

The following subsections present the internal, i.e. not public dissemination activities among the project partners. 5.1.1 Face-to-Face Meetings Plenary and (cross-) work package face-to-face meetings have been intensively used as platform to present the key achievements of the ongoing research activities to other project partners. In all plenary meetings dedicated sessions for single work packages or cross work package topics were organized. In the following all face-to-face meetings are listed: Plenary meetings

1st General Assembly, September 14-15, 2010, Castelldefels, Spain.

2nd General Assembly, March 16-18, 2011, Grenoble, France.

3rd General Assembly, October 14-16, 2011, Belgrade, Serbia.

4th General Assembly, May 9-11, 2012, Thessaloniki, Greece.

5th General Assembly, October 16-18, 2012, Newbury, United Kingdom. (Cross-) Work package meetings

WP3, WP4, and XWP meeting, May, 26-27, 2011, Guildford and Newbury, United Kingdom.

WP7 meeting, May 31, 2011, Meudon-sur-Seine, France.

XWP meeting on architecture, September 15-16, 2011, Guildford, United Kingdom.

WP3, WP4, and XWP meeting, January, 19-20, 2012, Stuttgart, Germany.

WP7 meeting, April 2-3, 2012, Santander, Spain.

WP3, WP4, and XWP meeting, June 11-12, 19-20, 2012, Dresden, Germany.


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XWP meeting on architecture and system concept, July 16-17, 2012, Guildford, United Kingdom.

Individual meetings

LTE-M brainstorming meeting (VGSL, ALUD), September 20-21, 2011, Newbury, United Kingdom.

Testbed 1 integration meeting (TUD, ALUD), November 23, 2012, Dresden, Germany. 5.1.2 Project File Repository For the exchange of each kind of documents including internal dissemination results a BSCW file repository was used. Also the publications at conferences and workshops and in journals and magazines are available on this server. Figure 5-1 shows a screenshot of the main folder.

Figure 5-1: Main folder of the BSCW project file repository.

5.1.3 Regular Phone Conferences The work packages WP2 – WP8 held regular phone conferences. These meetings were established as a forum for the exchange of achievements including internal dissemination results and for technical discussions. Moreover, regular PMT and Board phone calls took place, which were also used for internal dissemination. 5.1.4 Mailing Lists A further means for internal dissemination and technical discussions was the usage of mailing lists. For each work package one individual list was available. Moreover, lists for the Project Management Team (PMT), the Project Board, the General Assembly, the Advisory Board, the reporting of efforts, and, finally, all persons involved in EXALTED were established. 5.2 External Dissemination


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This subsection contains actions of external dissemination which did not fall into the categories of preceding sections. 5.2.1 Project Website The project website (screenshot see Figure 5-2) was a useful dissemination tool for the entire duration of the project. It was frequently updated with all public documents of the EXALTED project, such as publications and public deliverables.

Figure 5-2. EXALTED web site, providing links to download EXALTED public documents.

Figure 5-3 reports the total number of visits on the public website in 2012.

Figure 5-3. Visits to the EXALTED project website since January 2012.

The accesses to the EXALTED website have been monitored on a monthly basis as shown in Figure 5-4 for 2012. They are correlated with physical events to which partners participated actively, especially the workshops organised by EXALTED (Globecom, IoT-ET, Senzations).


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Figure 5-4. Monthly access statistics for EXALTED website for 2012.

Figure 5-5 and Figure 5-6 show the visits grouped by country of origin and top 25 visits by country and IP address. They show that the EXALTED website has attracted a significant number of visits originating from countries beyond the original project consortium, e.g. from USA and China.

Figure 5-5. Website top visits by country.


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Figure 5-6. Website Top 25 Visits by Country and Unique IP.

Finally, Figure 5-7 shows the most visited pages of the EXALTED website demonstrating that visitors are really interested in the EXALTED publications.

Figure 5-7. Website top visits by pages.

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The EXALTED project participated actively in the Future Network and Mobile Summit 2012, which took place from July 4th to July 6th in Berlin. A booth was dedicated to the project, where its main developments were showcased through graphic material (posters, slides) as well as demonstration platforms. The booth was an outstanding setting for having technical discussions and feedback from worldwide experts present at the Summit.

Figure 5-8. EXALTED booth at the 2012 Future Network and Mobile Summit 2012.

In addition, a talk entitled “M2M communications - Technology trends and research challenges” was presented by EXALTED Partner Angeliki Alexiou. In this talk, an overview of the most important wireless trends was presented, namely hierarchical cell structures, M2M and the cloud. Moreover, there was a brief description of the EXALTED use cases, communication scenarios and system concept. The rest of the talk focused on scheduling aspects and novel scheduling algorithms that address the most important challenges for M2M over LTE systems. 5.2.3 Presentations at Scientific and Technological Events The dissemination activities conducted by EXALTED partners also encompassed the following presentations in various S&T events, namely,

1. C. Anton-Haro, A. Petrescu, “Expanding LTE for devices,” ETSI M2M Workshop, Sofia-Antipolis (Nice), October 2010.

2. D. Raouf, “New Scalable Network Architecture for M2M Communications: The ‘EXALTED’ approach”, WWRF25 meeting, Newbury (UK), Nov. 2010.

3. J. Alonso, “Machine-to-Machine: An Emerging Communication Paradigm”, WWRF25 meeting, Newbury (UK), Nov. 2010.

4. S. Saur, “General overview of EXALTED”, Joint ALUD and Heinrich-Hertz-Institute (HHI) M2M Workshop in Berlin (ALUD), Dec. 2010.

5. Project presentation at FUTURE NETWORKS concertation meeting, Feb. 2011.

6. Project presentation in NEWCOM++ Smart Grids Workshop, Feb. 2011.


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7. Srdjan Krco, “EXALTED overview”, Ericsson Research seminar, Kista, Sweden, May 2011.

8. T. Lestable, “Smart Energy Management “From Innovation to Deployment”, M2M conference: M2M standards as growth enablers - TIA (Atlanta), Sept. 2011.

9. T. Lestable, “EXALTED project”, General Assembly of the ICT-LOLA project, May 2012, Paris.

10. A. Alexiou, “M2M Communications”, ITU Academy Workshop. Athens (Greece). March 2012.

11. T. Lestable, “Smart Energy Management: From Innovation to Deployment”, M2M conference: M2M standards as growth enablers - TIA (Atlanta), Sept. 2011.

12. C. Ibars, “M2M Communications”, LTE World Summit, Barcelona, May 2012.

13. N. Ognjanovic, D. Drajic, S. Saur, presentation of EXALTED achievements at M2M Workshop at University of Siegen, Feb. 2013.

14. D. Raouf, “EXALTED Preliminary Results”, RAS Cluster – 10th Concertation Meeting, October 2012

15. D. Raouf, “EXALTED Preliminary Results”, 4G and Beyond, Supélec – Gif-sur-Yvette, November 2012.

5.2.4 Meeting with the Advisory Board A meeting of representatives from EXALTED with the Advisory Board took place during the 4th General Assembly in Thessaloniki on May 10. After a presentation of the current project status to the Advisory Board, the project received several recommendations about the future technical direction of the research activities in EXALTED and about the best possible impact through dissemination of the results. These recommendations have been considered afterwards. Further details about this meeting are confidential. 5.2.5 Journal Special Issues EXALTED project partners have also engaged in the organization of one Journal Special Issue in Wiley’s Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (ETT), and one Journal Special Issue in IEEE’s Communications Surveys & Tutorials. The special issues are aimed at enlarging the project’s footprint in the scientific community. The first Journal Special Issue is entitled “Machine-to-Machine: An Emerging Communication Paradigm”. It is aimed at gathering recent advances in the areas of sophisticated M2M communication systems, and technologies, with the perspective of current M2M-related standardization activities in 3GPP, ETSI, IEEE, IETF and IPSO. The team of Guest Editors is supported by EC-funded projects EXALTED and LOLA. In addition to the manuscripts received by the submission deadline (July 2, 2012), it has been agreed that a number of selected papers from the “Int’l Workshop on M2M Communication Technologies and Systems” (http://m2m-wuxi.weebly.com)1 will enter the second review round for their possible publication in the special issue. To that aim, the corresponding

1 This workshop was held in conjunction with the 3rd Int’l Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT'12,

http://www.iot.2012.org).

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authors will be requested to prepare an extended version of the conference paper with no less than 30% of additional materials. The publication of the journal special issue is scheduled for Q1/2013. Further details on its scope and topics of interest can be found in the Call for Papers below these lines.

Figure 5-9: Call for Papers of the Journal Special Issue in Wiley’s Transactions on Emerging Technologies organized by the EXALTED project.


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As for the second Journal Special Issue, it is entitled “Machine-to-Machine Technologies & Architectures”. The aim of this special issue is to collect from industrial and academic players tutorials and surveys related to latest M2M technologies and architectures. Contributions on major developments and updates on M2M systems will be considered. Of great interest are currently being standardized, already standardized but also promising M2M technologies and architectures. The paper submission deadline has been set to October 1, 2012 and the publication is scheduled for Q3/2013. The corresponding Call for Papers below these lines.

Figure 5-10: Call for Papers of the Journal Special Issue in IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials co-organized by the EXALTED project. 5.2.6 Other Individual Dissemination Activities by the Project Partners Two organisation members of EXALTED, SC and CEA, continued in 2012 and 2013 a course on M2M they initiated in 2011 at the SUPELEC French post-graduate school (Grande Ecole). In 2012, eighteen students of the final year attended this course. The final year has around 30 students, and since this M2M course is an option amongst many others, this demonstrates the interest on M2M communications for the future engineers. The course


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tackled the main issues of M2M, especially the current lack of a unified architecture, and presented the EXALTED project as one current approach to solve these issues. The outline of the course was as follows:

1) Introduction to M2M market

o Industrial landscape: value chain, new applications & usages, products

o Trends and achievable market

2) Keystone technologies & M2M architecture

o Vertical markets and generic approach (ETSI, EXALTED …)

o Economy of scale and interoperability

o Wireless M2M: Cellular (2G, 3G, LTE, WiMAX), short range (Wi-Fi, ZigBee, BT, RFID, Z-wave, etc…)

o Wireline M2M (PLC…)

o IP M2M: IP-to-the-sensor (constrained IP stacks), autoconfiguration algorithms

o M2M networks connected to Internet

3) Key functionalities

o Security, privacy, trust

o Device management: protocols, Firmware Over The Air (FOTA), remote diagnostic, self-discovery, scalability

o Ubiquitous connectivity, interoperability

o Energy efficiency

o Overview of microcontrollers and embedded OS

o Context awareness and monitoring

o Identification, naming and addressing: fundamental concepts of IP routing and addressing

o Design issues

4) Technology Roadmap and Standards

o IETF (ROLL, 6LowPAN)

o ETSI: TC M2M, ITS

o 3GPP: Machine Type Communications (MTC) with LTE Rel.10 & Beyond

o Smart Grids: NIST architecture, IEEE P2030, Gridman, DLMS, CEN-CENELEC

o IEEE P1901

o DSL Forum

5) Conclusions: Research priorities & recommendations

o Digital Agenda for Europe

o Governance recommendations: Mandates from European Commission

o Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) for the Future Internet

o Digital Economy support in France (e.g. Grand Emprunt)

6. Conclusions

This report summarized dissemination activities undertaken by the project partners during the course of the project. A large number of activities took place, the most significant being 26 standards contributions, publication of one book chapter, 10 journal papers, 53 conference papers, presentations at various events, and the organization of three


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international workshops and one international training school. In addition to that, a large number of complementary activities took place to strengthen both internal and external dissemination. As a result we may safely conclude that the impact of the EXALTED Project on scientific and industrial communities will be strong and long-lasting. In addition, we believe that the project results, and its extended impact and visibility, will significantly contribute to the advance of machine to machine communications, and in turn represent large social and economic benefits for the European society.


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7. References [1] FP7 EXALTED consortium, “D8.1 – Report on the standardization and dissemination

activities for the first evaluation period,” project report, Aug. 2011.

exalted fp7 contract number: 258512

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