International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology 

About: International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology is an academic journal published by Inderscience Publishers. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Computer science & Cloud computing. It has an ISSN identifier of 1743-8209. Over the lifetime, 289 publications have been published receiving 1396 citations. The journal is also known as: IJIPT.

Towards an application framework for context-aware m-health applications

Abstract: Several social-economical developments, like the ageing society, stimulate the use of ICT applications for mobile healthcare (e.g., tele-monitoring). To support novel m-health applications, the consequences of developing these applications should be considered in the scope of a comprehensive architecture. Additionally, contextual information plays an important role for personalised healthcare and should be considered in such architectures. This paper describes ongoing research that focuses on developing an application framework for supporting the development of context-aware m-health applications. It gives initial requirements for such a framework and it gives a first attempt for a functional decomposition. The use of the framework is illustrated by means of an epilepsy tele-monitoring scenario.

A survey of patterns for Service-Oriented Architectures

Abstract: Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) are a promising means to integrate heterogeneous systems, but virtually no technology-neutral approach to holistically understand SOAs exists. We tackle this problem by introducing a survey of technology-independent patterns that are relevant for SOAs, and are working towards a formalised pattern-based reference architecture model to describe SOA concepts.

Sens-ation: a service-oriented platform for developing sensor-based infrastructures

Abstract: Context-aware systems use sensors in order to analyse their environment and to adapt their behaviour. We have designed and developed Sens-ation, an open and generic service-oriented platform, which provides powerful, yet easy-to-use, tools to software developers who want to develop context-aware, sensor-based infrastructures. The service-oriented paradigm of Sens-ation enables standardised communication within individual infrastructures, between infrastructures and their sensors, but also among distributed infrastructures. On a whole, Sens-ation facilitates the development allowing developers to concentrate on the semantics of their infrastructures, and to develop innovative concepts and implementations of context-aware systems.

Assessing the Quality of Experience of SopCast

Abstract: Recently, there has been a growing interest in academic and commercial environments for live streaming using P2P technology. A number of new P2P digital Television (P2PTV) applications have emerged. Such P2PTV applications are developed with proprietary technologies. Their traffic characteristics and the Quality of Experience (QoE) provided by them are not well known. Therefore, investigating their mechanisms, analysing their performance, and measuring their quality are important objectives for researchers, developers and end users. In this paper, we present results from a measurement study of a BitTorrent-like P2PTV application called SopCast, using both objective and subjective measurement technologies. The results obtained in our study reveal the characteristics and important design issues of SopCast, as well as the QoE that the end users perceive.

A hybrid scheme using packet marking and logging for IP traceback

Abstract: IP traceback is a mechanism for tracing IP packets back to their sources. Tracing mechanisms include packet marking and logging. Log based traceback has the ability to backtrack a single packet by logging each packet at intermediate nodes in the networks. Marking based traceback helps to embed the path information of the intermediate nodes in the packets and the embedded information is used by a victim to reconstruct the attack path. Recent researches show that the performance of hybrid methods comprising logging and marking are appreciable as they help to traceback a single attack packet with less storage overhead on routers. In this study, we use a hybrid approach based on marking and logging to traceback single attack packet with less storage and traceback overhead on routers. We show this through a mathematical analysis. We also evaluate the traceback accuracy of our system and other hybrid approaches. Additionally, the simulation results are also presented to verify the effectiveness of the proposed system.