PETAL
Location service is an essential prerequisite for mobile wireless ad hoc networks (MANETs) in which the underlying routing protocol leverages physical location information of sender and receiver nodes. Fulfillment of this requirement is challenging ...
A framework for automating security analysis of the internet of things
The Internet of Things (IoT) is enabling innovative applications in various domains. Due to its heterogeneous and wide-scale structure, it introduces many new security issues. To address this problem, we propose a framework for modeling and assessing ...
T-Hoarder
With the eruption of online social networks, like Twitter and Facebook, a series of new APIs have appeared to allow access to the data that these new sources of information accumulate. One of most popular online social networks is the micro-blogging ...
Energy efficient clustering protocol based on improved metaheuristic in wireless sensor networks
Energy efficient clustering is a well accepted NP-hard optimization problem in Wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Diverse paradigm of Computational intelligence (CI) including Evolutionary algorithms (EAs), Reinforcement learning (RL), Artificial immune ...
FSQCN
Currently, Quantized Congestion Notification (QCN) has been accepted as the standard layer 2 congestion control protocol in Data Center Ethernet. In this study, we find that QCN has two drawbacks. First, the incomplete binary search of QCN may fail to ...
A proxy signature-based handover authentication scheme for LTE wireless networks
A seamless and secure handover is always one of the important design goals of the cellular networks. The handover scheme of 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless networks is complex due to the presence of two possible different types of base stations. ...
An optimized approach to video traffic splitting in heterogeneous wireless networks with energy and QoE considerations
Due to the exploding traffic demands with the ubiquitous anticipated spread of 5G and Internet of Things, research has been active to devise mechanisms for meeting these demands while maintaining high quality user experience. In support of this ...
Modeling and performance analysis for multimedia data flows scheduling in software defined networks
Supporting diverse Quality of Service (QoS) performance for data flows generated by multimedia applications has been a challenging issue in Software Defined Network (SDN). However, the current available QoS provision mechanisms proposed for SDN have not ...
Cardinality estimation using collective interference for large-scale RFID systems
Estimating the number (cardinality) of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags is a principal problem for large-scale RFID systems. This paper proposes a novel protocol for RFID cardinality estimation using synchronized response signals. For every ...
Centralized connectivity restoration in multichannel wireless sensor networks
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are widely used in various domains. In general, the applications, in which the WSN is deployed, require that this network presents a minimum degree of reliability, effectiveness and robustness. However, the specificity of ...
Technologies and challenges in developing Machine-to-Machine applications
Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication is evolving day by day and expected to create an ecosystem of billions of electronic devices. This new class of communicating devices have very diverse traffic characteristics and pose unique challenges. The ...
Using dynamic programming to solve the Wireless Sensor Network Configuration Problem
This work studies the problem of network configuration for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), consisting of two interdependent problems: sensor placement and topology control, by taking into consideration both the traffic load and the transmission range ...
Renewable-aware geographical load balancing of web applications for sustainable data centers
The ever-increasing demand for web applications deployed across multiple data centers results in large electricity costs for service providers and significant impact on the environment. This has motivated service providers to move towards more ...
LaCoDa
One of the fundamental challenges of existing data centers is to design a network that interconnects massive number of servers, and therefore providing an efficient and fault-tolerant routing service to upper-layer applications. Several solutions have ...
Impact of time synchronization error on the mode-shape identification and damage detection/localization in WSNs for structural health monitoring
Time synchronization in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is a critical challenge for any distributed system such as WSNs for structural health monitoring (SHM). In SHM, mode shape identification, damage detection and damage localization are sensitive to ...
A hybrid method for the QoS analysis and parameter optimization in time-critical random access wireless sensor networks
Evolution in electronics has led to the development of complex applications in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), where efficient and swift event reporting is needed. In time-critical applications, achieving an adequate report latency is particularly ...
Discovering time-dependent shortest path on traffic graph for drivers towards green driving
Green transportation technologies that reduce fuel consumption, idling, and vehicle miles traveled while reducing acute congestion could play a significant role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, particularly in major cities, around ports and freight ...
DeMS
In modern parallel systems and distributed applications, a large number of cores work synergistically for parallel jobs. Properly dispatching tasks among CPU cores is crucial to reduce response time of jobs, which provides benefit for both system ...