This book constitutes the proceedings from the 20th Tyrrhenian Workshop on Digital Communications, held September 2009 in Pula, Sardinia, Italy and focused on the Internet of Things.
Networking Issues.- Objects Communication Behavior on Multihomed Hybrid Ad Hoc Networks.- Classification of Emerging Protocols in the Presence of Asymmetric Routing.- Performance Evaluation of Routing Protocols in WSNs Arranged in Linear Topologies.- A Distributed Procedure for IEEE 802.15.4 PAN Coordinator Election in Emergency Scenarios.- A Mobile Platform for Measurements in Dynamic Topology Wireless Networks.- Cluster-Based Irresponsible Forwarding.- Dynamic Spectrum Access Communications: Wavelet Modulation with Unequal Power Allocation.- Optimal Cross-Layer Flow-Control for Wireless Maximum-Throughput Delivery of VBR Media Contents.- A Secure MPLS VPN Infrastructure for Complex Geodata Sensor Network.- The Role of the Middleware.- Making the Internet of Things a Reality: The WhereX Solution.- A Scalable Grid and Service-Oriented Middleware for Distributed Heterogeneous Data and System Integration in Context-Awareness-Oriented Domains.- InterDataNet: A Scalable Middleware Infrastructure for Smart Data Integration.- CONVERGENCE: Extending the Media Concept to Include Representations of Real World Objects.- Service Oriented Middleware Solutions for Emergency Communication Networks.- Localization and Applications.- Localization Issues in a ZigBee Based Internet of Things Scenario.- Low-Complexity Audio Signal Processing for Localization in Indoor Scenarios.- Integrated GPS-Denied Localization, Tracking, and Personal Identification.- Design and Implementation of Smartphone Applications for Speaker Count and Gender Recognition.- Video Coding with Motion Estimation at the Decoder.- Inter-Vehicle Communication QoS Management for Disaster Recovery.- RFID and Sensor Networks Technologies.- Beyond the ID in RFID.- Performance Characterization of Passive UHF RFID Tags.- ChlĂ