Mobile Networks and Applications

The type of centralized group key establishment protocols is the most commonly used one due to its efficiency in computation and communication. A key generation center (KGC) in this type of protocols acts as a server to register users initially. Since ...

Node's mobility, bursty data traffic, and dynamic nature of the network make congestion avoidance and control a challenging task in Mobile Adhoc Networks (MANETs). Congestion results in high packet loss rate, increased delays, and wastage of network ...

This paper presents the wireless power transfer (WPT) technology based on inductive coupling and the design challenges of a hybrid energy harvester (EH) circuit as a promising solution to promote the energy efficiency of the electric vehicles (EVs). The ...

Autonomous vehicle guidance and trajectory planning is one of the key technologies in the autonomous control system for intelligent vehicles. Firstly, the target pursuit model for intelligent vehicles was established and described in this text. Then, ...

Wireless vehicular communications are gaining momentum, mainly to improve road safety through the use of cooperative systems. Such visionary cooperative applications are based on recently established families of standards, notably the IEEE Wireless ...

The use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as a copilot for the drivers has a potential to improve traffic safety and efficiency. A key challenge in integrating ICT in vehicular networks is to provide the mechanisms for the delivery of ...

This paper presents the outage probability analysis of the energy harvesting (EH) decode and forward (DF) cooperative relay network when more than one relays are available to assist the communication between source and destination in the presence of the ...

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are applied in many time-critical applications, e.g., industrial automation and smart grid. This highlights the importance of Delay Constrained Relay Node Placement (DCRNP) problem that builds a path fulfilling a ...

This paper presents a new immune inspired algorithm, the Clonal Selection Algorithm for Multi-agent Itinerary Planning (CSA-MIP), to solve the MIP problem in wireless sensor networks. CSA-MIP has two computational stages called Stage I and Stage II. ...

Content dissemination in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) has the potential to enable a myriad of applications, ranging from advertising, traffic and emergency warnings to infotainment. This variety in applications and services calls for mechanisms ...

This paper presents an Adaptive On-the-fly Decision maker for Multi Ferry (A-ODMF) delay tolerant networks. A-ODMF chooses the next node to visit for controlled mobility data ferries. In our assumptions, there is no direct communication among ferries. ...

In this work, we investigate the application of an adapted controlled mobility strategy on self-propelling nodes, which could efficiently provide network resource to users scattered on a designated area. We design a virtual force-based controlled ...

It is well known that communication is affected by the change in frequency of a signal for an observer that is moving relative to the source. As a result of the motion of either the source or the observer, successive waves are emitted from a position ...

A Multi-Beam Antenna (MBA) can be defined as a set of directional radio transceivers. These transceivers are facing different directions to prevent signal interference with each other. MBA nodes have two main characteristics: the Multi-Packet ...

This paper examines a new application of the well-known ARP spoofing (or ARP cache poisoning) attack. Traditionally, ARP spoofing has been applied in local area networks to allow an attacker to achieve a man-in-the-middle position against target hosts, ...

In this paper, we present a routing and interface assignment algorithm for multi-channel multi-interface (MCMI) wireless ad hoc networks. An MCMI network consists of nodes that have more than one interface, and more than one channel available for ...

In communications, there has been a paradigm shift toward the widespread adoption of wireless technologies in recent years. This evolution to--often ad-hoc--wireless communication has led to significant benefits in terms of flexibility and mobility. ...

This paper presents a sparse ad hoc network where multiple mobility controlled message ferries cooperate to deliver messages for stationary and disconnected wireless nodes. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are utilized as message ferries with an on-the-...

Smart devices such as mobile phones and smart TVs are widely used for enriching our daily activities. Although their power source and processing speed are limited, it is necessary for these devices to provide certain computation power. To enhance ...

Code offloading strives for increasing the energy efficiency and execution speed of mobile applications on resource-constrained mobile devices. First approaches only considered a code offloading between two (or three) tiers, executing code either ...

To support various practical applications that are expected to work over vehicular networks, it is important to develop a network infrastructure that provides quality communications on which applications can rely. However, since a vehicular network is ...

This paper considers the hidden-node problem in downlink transmission of an LTE-U and WiFi coexistence system operating in unlicensed bands. An enhanced LTE-U node structure is first presented, in which a WiFi module is introduced in an LTE-U eNB, and ...

Energy efficient multicast is a crucial issue in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. In this paper, we propose an adaptive bi-threshold-based on-demand energy-efficient multicast routing protocol EAP, which is aimed to achieve reduced energy ...

As the amount of user equipment and massive volumes of data continue to increase, high data rate requirements remain a major challenge, particularly in cellular networks. In networks composed of small cells, applying full-duplex (FD) millimeter wave (...

Underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) are the enabling technology for a new era of underwater monitoring and actuation applications. While an efficient routing protocol for data packet delivery is crucial to UWSNs, design of such a protocol faces ...