Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is a very challenging task due to the large number of nodes, their mobility and lack of proper infrastructure. Since the sensors are battery powered devices, energy efficiency is considered as one of the main factors in designing routing protocols in WSNs. Most of energy-aware routing protocols are mere energy savers that attempt to decrease the energy...

We propose audio networking : using ubiquitously available sound hardware (i.e. speakers, sound-cards and microphones) for lowbandwidth, wireless networking. A variety of locationand context-aware applications that use audio networking are presented including a location system, a pick-and-drop interface and a framework for embedding digital attachments in voice notes or telephone conversations....

The new MPEG-4 Audio standard provides two toolsets for synthetic Audio generation, Audio processing and multimedia content description called Structured Audio (SA) and BInary Format for Scenes (BIFS). Moving from a systematic analysis of SA and from the implementation of an efficient SA decoder, this paper describes the design of a virtual DSP architecture able to exploit the data level parall...

The growth of in-car entertainment systems demands smart power devices, including audio power amplifiers. Despite the trend towards class-D systems, integrated class-AB amplifiers are still superior in terms of frequency response, integration level and ease of application. The market drive for lower distortion and higher stability demands good frequency compensation schemes. Still, to the best ...

The widespread use of smart devices gives rise to both security and privacy concerns. Fingerprinting smart devices can assist in authenticating physical devices, but it can also jeopardize privacy by allowing remote identification without user awareness. We propose a novel fingerprinting approach that uses the microphones and speakers of smart phones to uniquely identify an individual device. D...

The paper presents a solution for streaming audio and video content in IP networks using RTP and SIP protocols. Second Section presents multimedia format and compression for the audio content that is streamed by SS4MD. Streaming protocols are shown in third section. In the forth section there is an example of an application which does uses all above. Conclusions are contoured in the final chapt...

We propose a framework for secure device-pairing based on contextual information. In contrast to related work, we utilise fuzzy cryptography schemes to establish a common secret among devices and to account for noise in the contextual features. The framework is implemented for ambient audio and its feasibility is demonstrated in a case study. Additionally, we discuss properties of fingerprints ...

This paper considers the use of software mobile agents as proxy agents, to provide seamless mobility and cater for heterogeneous devices and network characteristics. We specifically consider the use of mobile agents within the Mobile Aware ARCHitecture (MARCH) framework [8]. We show how a mobile proxy agent can be used within the March Framework and we try to evaluate the impact of agent migrat...

Mobile telephony offers an interesting platform for building multipresence-enabled applications that utilize the phone as a social or commercial assistant. The main objective of this research is to develop multipresence-enabled audio windowing systems for visualization, attention, and privacy awareness of narrowcasting (selection) functions in collaborative virtual environments (CVEs) for mobil...