SCA transports timber via rail from railway terminals in western Sweden to saw and/or pulp mills located on the east coast. Sometimes timber wagons are lost due to damages inflicted when loading the wagon. Wagons can also be decommissioned for maintenance conducted by the Swedish Transport Administration. Both situations are unpredictable and causes many types of problems. If the wagons could be automatically traced these problems could be predicted and pre-emptive actions could be taken. All wagons used by SCA are equipped with RFID tags and RFID readers are installed at the railway terminals. The purpose of this thesis is to equip the RFID readers with Internet access, collect the data read by the RFID readers and present this data in a single page web application. The actual data collection is done by an already existing system which pushes the train data to the back-end part of the application. The front-end part is made with a JavaScript framework named Ember.js and the back-end part is made with ASP .NET Web API and SQL Server. The application is finished and verified with various tests but is not put in production due to a negotiation delay between SCA with a third-party consultant.

Mobile networks have changed from circuit switched to IP-based mobile wireless packet switched networks. This paradigm shift led to new possibilities and challenges. The development of new capabilities based on IP-based networks is ongoing and raises new problems that have to be tackled, for example, the heterogeneity of current radio access networks and the wide range of data rates, coupled with user requirements and behaviour. A typical example of this shift is the nature of traffic, which is currently mostly data-based; further, forecasts based on market and usage trends indicate a data traffic increase of nearly 11 times between 2013 and 2018. The majority of this data traffic is predicted to be multimedia traffic, such as video streaming and live video streaming combined with voice traffic, all prone to delay, jitter, and packet loss and demanding high data rates and a high Quality of Service (QoS) to enable the provision of valuable service to the end-user. While the demands on the network are increasing, the end-user devices become more mobile and end-user demand for the capability of being always on, anytime and anywhere. The combination of end-user devices mobility, the required services, and the significant traffic loads generated by all the end-users leads to a pressing demand for adequate measures to enable the fulfilment of these requirements. The aim of this research is to propose an architecture which provides smart, intelligent and per end-user device individualised traffic steering for heterogeneous mobile networks to cope with the traffic volume and to fulfil the new requirements on QoS, mobility, and real-time capabilities. The proposed architecture provides traffic steering mechanisms based on individual context data per end-user device enabling the generation of individual commands and recommendations. In order to provide valuable services for the end-user, the commands and recommendations are distributed to the end-user devices in real-time. The proposed architecture does not require any proprietary protocols to facilitate its integration into the existing network infrastructure of a mobile network operator. The proposed architecture has been evaluated through a number of use cases. A proof-of-concept of the proposed architecture, including its core functionality, was implemented using the ns-3 network simulator. The simulation results have shown that the proposed architecture achieves improvements for traffic steering including traffic offload and handover. Further use cases have demonstrated that it is possible to achieve benefits in multiple other areas, such as for example improving the energy efficiency, improving frequency interference management, and providing additional or more accurate data to 3rd party to improve their services.

It goes without saying that cellular users of today have an insatiable appetite for bandwidth and data. Data-intensive applications, such as video on demand, online gaming and video conferencing, have gained prominence. This, coupled with recent innovations in the mobile network such as LTE/4G, poses a unique challenge to network operators in how to extract the most value from their deployments all the while reducing their Total Cost of Operations(TCO). To this end, a number of enhancements have been proposed to the ”conventional” LTE mobile network. Most of these recognize the monolithic and non-elastic nature of the mobile backend and propose complimenting core functionality with concepts borrowed from Software Defined Networking (SDN). In this thesis we shall attempt to explore some existing options within the LTE standard to mitigate large traffic churns. We will then review some SDN-enabled alternatives, and attempt to derive a proof based critique on their merits and drawbacks.

Mobile operators face a scenario characterised by new challenges such as growing data consumption, a slowdown in subscriber growth and reduced revenues due to the success of OTT providers. To remain competitive, mobile operators must offer affordable services and think on strategies to retain current customers. Quality of Experience (QoE) is a well-established methodology for measuring and understanding the overall level of customer satisfaction with a service and has been presented as a way to improve telecommunication services. Even though QoE can be used to solve problems such as customer loyalty and optimisation of network resources in mobile networks, there is a great lack of knowledge on how mobile operators can take advantage of QoE and its potential benefits. This thesis explores the incorporation of QoE in mobile networks to improve their service offering from a technical, regulatory and business perspective.The technical level focuses on the definition of the mechanism to integrate QoE in the operation of mobile networks. The second part of this study has been focused on the regulatory framework on Net Neutrality. Finally,the third part of this thesis focuses on the identification of potential business scenarios and models based on the incorporation of QoE in mobile networks. An important conclusion is that due to the nature of the challenges faced by the mobile industry, a QoE analysis cannot be limited to a technical discussion. A technical solution can be the first step to the first step to overcoming industry challenges. However, it is important that a technical decision comes along with an informed analysis of the regulatory conditions and the business implications of the proposed solution. On the other hand, mobile operators require new methods that integrate technical, market and business considerations to improve their service offer. A method analysed in this dissertation is a Customer Experience Management (CEM) platform. Given the technical, regulatory and business factors covered in this thesis, a CEM platform can be used by mobile operators to make a better use of QoE in their business operation. / Mobiloperatörer möter ett scenario som kännetecknas av en ökande trend inom dataförbrukning, tecken på en avmattning i abonnenttillväxten, en en minskning av de traditionella intäkter på grund av framgången med OTT leverantörer. Dessutom, mobila användare har gott om alternativ för att ändra tjänsteleverantören. I det här fallet måste mobiloperatörer förbli konkurrenskraftiga baseras både på pris och deras abonnenter tillfredsställelse. Kvalitet Erfarenhets (QoE) införlivande i mobilnät kan vara ett av alternativen för att möta vissa mobilbranschen utmaningar som omfattar tekniska, kommersiella och marknadsnivå. QoE möjliggör en bredare och mer övergripande förståelse av användarnas erfarenheter med utförandet av applikationer, tjänster och nätverk, samtidigt som kompletterar traditionella techno-centric begrepp som Quality of Service(QoS). Händelse om användningen av QoE data har föreslagits som ettsätt att lösa problem som optimering av nätverksresurser och kundomsättning upplevs av mobiloperatörer, finns det fortfarande en lucka på hur man utnyttjar QoE och dess potentiella fördelar i ramen för mobilnät. Således är den övergripande inriktningen av denna avhandling på att analysera hur mobiloperatörer kan integrera QoE feedback för att förbättra sin serviceerbjudande.Men på grund av arten av de utmaningar som den mobila industrin står inför, denna analys kan inte begränsas till en teknisk nivå diskussion. även hitta en teknisk lösning skulle kunna vara det första steget för att övervinna utmaningarna på marknaden, är det viktigt att ett tekniskt beslut kommer tillsammans med en välgrundad analys av de regulatoriska förutsättningarna för att genomförandet och affärs konsekvenserna av den föreslagna lösningen.Så kan en skådespelare intresserad av genomförandet av det föreslagna i dennaavhandling mekanism har fler verktyg för ett välgrundat beslut fattandet. På teknisk nivå, fokuserar denna uppsats på identifiering av teknisk mekanismför att införliva QoE i mobilnätet. Sedan vår analys kretsar kring identifieringen av regelverket om nätneutralitet och dess potentiella inverkan på genomförandet av den föreslagna mekanismen för införliva QoE i mobilnät. Slutligen, och letar efter en helhetssyn på QoE frågan, erbjuder vi en analys av konsekvenserna av att införliva QoE för hela mobilnät ekosystemet och intressenterna längs hela värdenätverket. / <p>QC 20161229</p> / Quality of Experience: A Techno-economic Analysis / Quality of Experience and Net Neutrality

This thesis deals with spam in mobile and social networks. It focuses on spam in SMS messages and web service Twitter. Theoretical part provides brief overview of those two media, informations about what spam is, how to defend against it and where does it comes from. There is also a list of methods for spam detection, many of them have their roots in filtration of email communication. The rest of thesis is about design, implementation of application  for spam detection in SMS and Twitter messages and evaluation of its performance.

Internet goes mobile as billions of users are accessing the Internet through their smartphones. Cellular networks play an essential role in providing “anytime, anywhere” network access as the only large-scale wireless network infrastructure in operation. Mobility support is the salient feature indispensable to ensure seamless Internet connectivity to mobile devices wherever the devices go or are. Cellular network operators deploy a huge number of cell towers over geographical areas each with limited radio coverage. When the device moves out of the radio coverage of its serving cell(s), mobility support is performed to hand over its serving cell(s) to another, thereby ensuring uninterrupted network access.<br>Despite a large success at most places, we uncover that state-of-the-practice mobility support in operational cellular networks suffers from a variety of issues which result in unnecessary performance degradation to mobile devices. In this thesis, we dive into these issues in today’s mobility support and explore possible solutions with no or small changes to the existing network infrastructure.<br>We take a new perspective to study and enhance mobility support. We directly examine, troubleshoot and enhance the underlying procedure of mobility support, instead of higher-layer (application/transport) exploration and optimization in other existing studies. Rather than clean slate network-side solutions, we focus on device-side solutions which are compatible with 3GPP standards and operational network infrastructure, promising immediate benefits without requiring any changes on network side.<br>In particular, we address three technical questions by leveraging the power of the devices. First, how is mobility support performed in reality? We leverage device-side observation to monitor the handoff procedures that happen between the network and the device. We unveil that operator-specific configurations and policies play a decisive role under the standard mechanism and conduct a large-scale measurement study to characterize the extremely complex and diverse handoff configurations used by global operators over the world. Second, what is wrong with the existing mobility support? We conduct model-based reasoning and empirical study to examine network performance issues (e.g., handoff instability and unreachability, missed performance) which are caused by improper handoffs. Finally, how to enhance mobility support? We turn passive devices to proactive devices to enhance mobility support. Specifically, we make a showcase solution which exploits device-side inputs to intervene the default handoff procedure and thus indirectly influence the cell selection decision, thereby improving data speed to mobile devices. All the results in this thesis have been validated or evaluated in reality (over top-tier US carriers like AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, some even in global carrier networks).

There are high demands of effective and high-performance of collaborations between mobile devices in the places where traditional Internet connections are unavailable, unreliable, or significantly overburdened, such as on a battlefield, disaster zones, isolated rural areas, or crowded public venues. To enable collaboration among the devices in opportunistic networks, code offloading and Remote Method Invocation are the two major mechanisms to ensure code portions of applications are successfully transmitted to and executed on the remote platforms. Although these domains are highly enjoyed in research for a decade, the limitations of multi-device connectivity, system error handling or cross platform compatibility prohibit these technologies from being broadly applied in the mobile industry. To address the above problems, we designed and developed UMSEF - an Universal Mobile Service Execution Framework, which is an innovative and radical approach for mobile computing in opportunistic networks. Our solution is built as a component-based mobile middleware architecture that is flexible and adaptive with multiple network topologies, tolerant for network errors and compatible for multiple platforms. We provided an effective algorithm to estimate the resource availability of a device for higher performance and energy consumption and a novel platform for mobile remote method invocation based on declarative annotations over multi-group device networks. The experiments in reality exposes our approach not only achieve the better performance and energy consumption, but can be extended to large-scaled ubiquitous or IoT systems.

L'objectif de cette thèse est de développer les méthodes nécessaires à une gestion ciblée et efficace de la mobilité des utilisateurs dans un réseau mobile hétérogène. Ces réseaux sont caractérisés par le déploiement de différents types de cellules (macro, micro, pico et/ou femto). Le déploiement massif des petites cellules (pico et femto) a permis d'offrir une capacité et une qualité de couverture accrue au réseau, notamment dans les zones à forte densité. Cependant, les contraintes temps réel engendrées limitent la QoS offerte aux utilisateurs. De plus, pour des raisons commerciales et/ou environnementales, la nécessité de réduire la consommation énergétique des réseaux mobiles est devenue une réalité. Ainsi, les opérateurs mobiles doivent trouver le bon compromis entre d'une part, la garantie de la QoS offerte aux utilisateurs et la vitesse de mobilité de ces derniers, et d'une autre part, le coût énergétique engendré pour le déploiement du réseau. Pour cela, dans le cadre de la gestion de la mobilité des utilisateurs, nous proposons des modèles pour la gestion des ressources des stations de base ainsi que pour la gestion de leur consommation énergétique. Le premier modèle proposé vise à gérer le partage des ressources entre les clients de l'opérateur mobile. Basé sur la prédiction de la mobilité des utilisateurs, ce modèle permet d'anticiper la gestion des ressources d'une station de base. Le deuxième modèle gère la consommation énergétique du réseau en se basant sur un contrôle d'affectation des utilisateurs mobiles. Cela permet de contrôler en continu la consommation énergétique des stations de base et la QoS qu'elles offrent aux utilisateurs mobiles. Par simulation, en utilisant une topologie réelle d'un réseau mobile, les performances des méthodes proposées sont évaluées en considérant différents scénarios possibles. Leurs performances sont comparées à celles de l'approche adoptée par des opérateurs mobiles actuels, ainsi qu'à celles de certaines approches proposées dans la littérature. / The objective of this thesis is to develop methods for a targeted and efficient management of users mobility in heterogeneous mobile networks. This network is characterized by the deployment of different types of cells (macro, micro, pico and/or femto). The massive deployment of small cells (pico and femto) provides a supplementary coverage and capacity to mobile networks, specially in dense areas. However, the resulting real-time constraints limit the offered QoS. Furthermore, for commercial and/or environmental reasons, the needs to reduce the energy consumed by mobile networks became reality. Thus, mobile operators have to find a good compromise between, on the one hand, the users velocity and the guaranteed QoS, and on the other hand, the cost of deployment of such networks. For that, in the context of users mobility management, we propose models for resource and energy consumption management of base stations. The first model aims at controlling resource sharing between clients of the mobile operators. Based on a mobility prediction of users, this model anticipates the resource management of a base station. The second model aims at reducing energy consumption of the network by managing mobile users assignment to detected cells. This allows a continuous control of consumed energy of base stations while offered QoS is guaranteed. Based on simulation of a real mobile network topology, the performances of proposed models are evaluated while considering different possible scenarios. They are compared to the performances of different strategies as the ones proposed in literature or adopted by current mobile operators.

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Approved for public release, distribution is unlimited / Warfare planners and tacticians are seeking ways to leverage information technology to gain advantage on the battlefield. With the advent of Internet technologies, complex systems are becoming more networked, and access to information is more critical than ever. The increasing utilization of special operations forces in ad hoc, dynamic operations poses a need for adaptable communications to support the unit. Effective communication within the unit and critical information exchange with the command center affect the overall outcome of the mission. An adaptive, mobile network with UAV relays is well-suited to support the ad hoc nature of special operations. The area of research for this thesis is the role of the tactical network operations communication coordinator in mobile UAV networks. The coordinator's purpose is to oversee the management and status of the network and provide feedback to network participants, thus resulting in an effective and well-functioning environment. The tactical network coordinator is an important and integral part of network operations by establishing what is known as network awareness. This thesis will be a model for sharing network awareness, and it will explore the potential benefits of incorporating network performance as a planning objective rather than a constraint. / First Lieutenant, United States Air Force