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Recent advances in technology propelled the development of resource constrained tiny devices and the concept of Internet of Things (IoT). Potential applications spanning various fields of science from environmental to medical have been emerged. Different architectures, routing protocols, performance issues and goals have been suggested. In this work, we review fundamental concepts, recent developments...
The IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol uses Distributed Coordinated Function (DCF) as the main element to determine the efficiency in sharing the limited resources of the wireless channels in wireless local area networks (WLANs). For analyzing 802.11 DCF networks, one of the key assumptions commonly used is that every station always has a packet to transmit (saturated state). However, in practice it may not...
Software Defined Networks (SDN) has been attracting various researchers from both academia and industry to enhance the current ICT stakes and networking paradigm. The beauty of SDN is the division of Control and Data planes and make it easy for the engineers to modify the networking protocols without visiting onsite devices. Similarly, Smart Cities concept has been coined recently, where a plethora...
Network performance is one of the most important entities in today’s long-distance networks. TCP congestion control mechanisms play an important role in these networks. Most of the current TCP congestion control mechanisms which are also known as TCP variants, detect congestion and slow down the packets transmission to avoid further congestion in the network. In this paper, three classes...
Multilayer Clustered Designing Algorithm is exploited to present MCDA - Hot Spot algorithm; a technique to increase the network throughput by alleviating the impact of hotspot issue on network lifetime. The network nodes in the hot spot region are in a flat layer form in contrast to rest of the network nodes that are grouped into clusters. This design substantially helps in achieving goal above. This...
For a long time, the risk of customer churn, i.e. to leave an operator, has been used as argument in favor of Quality or Experience (QoE) research. However, the understanding of how churn behavior and QoE are related is still limited. This is problematic, as customer retention and churn prediction have grown in importance in face of ever-growing competition on the telecom market. The work presented...
The panic among medical control, information, and device administrators is due to surmounting number of high-profile attacks on healthcare facilities. This hostile situation is going to lead the health informatics industry to cloud-hoarding of medical data, control flows, and site governance. While different healthcare enterprises opt for cloud-based solutions, it is a matter of time when fog computing...
In recent years, many routing protocols that take into account particular vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) characteristics such as higher vehicle speeds and mobility patterns have been proposed. Most of the existing VANET routing protocols largely neglect vehicles as obstacles in VANETs. Obstacle shadowing caused by large vehicles such as trucks or buses more negatively affects packet transmission...
Internet of Things (IoT) is slowly taking over the world where its predicted that by 2025, it will grow to 1-3 trillion connected machines/devices. With large scale deployments, maintaining these devices is a seeming burden on the operations. Also, with huge deployments of IoT devices, most concerns center around privacy and security. To reduce the efforts of on-field maintenance and to perform such...
With increase in size of wireless mesh networks so are problems on interference, load-imbalance, and congestion that lowers throughput significantly. Proposals to solve issues related to this problem include accurate accounting of the channel load so that traffic can be directed along calmer regions of the networks reaching destination in time. Load aware routing metrics have been proposed for this...
An important issue faced while employing Pyroelectric InfraRed (PIR) sensors in an outdoor Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) deployment for intrusion detection, is that the output of the PIR sensor can, as shown in a recent paper, degenerate into a weak and unpredictable signal when the background temperature is close to that of the intruder. The current paper explores the use of an optical camera as...
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