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The growth in broadband access and increases in terminal capability have enabled us to provide large-scale multimedia services. The traditional unicast architecture cannot support such a service because the transportation from a content server to many end hosts causes the overload to a content server. Overlay multicast techniques have been proposed to solve this problem. This high-layer technology...
The paper reports an analysis about the convenience of employing multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) to provide mobility in wireless mesh networks (WMNs). In such networks, which are expected to serve a considerable number of mobile users, the efficient support of mobility is a non-trivial issue. The starting point of our work is proxy mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6), a standardised network-based protocol...
In this paper, we propose an adaptive forwarding scheme for achieving efficient message delivery in the mobile sensor delay-tolerant network (DTN). By adaptively adjusting the probability of replicating a message based on the information about the number of existing message copies in the network, the proposed scheme can achieve nice balance between the delivery delay and the average message copy....
In this paper, we propose a novel medium access control (MAC) protocol called flow-driven MAC (FD-MAC) for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). FD-MAC is a slotted MAC protocol that combines random access and reservation-based access, and introduces the concept of "data flow" and a flow-driven mechanism for resource reservation. For short-duration data flows, it employs a random access protocol,...
The Guard Channel (GC) scheme is an extensively deployed handover prioritization policy in wireless mobile networks due to its appealing properties of easy implementation and flexible control. Self-similar traffic has been demonstrated to be a ubiquitous phenomenon in modern communication networks and many measurement studies have demonstrated that the call holding times in wireless mobile networks...
Mobile location estimation via the use of a spatially-dependent signal database is of growing importance. However, this location estimation method usually requires an a priori experimental measurement campaign. To overcome this drawback we propose here a new method of location estimation via the real-time creation of a virtual signal database. The virtual database is created on-demand by an optimized...
In mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), hierarchical key management structure has some distinct features and becomes popular in many applications. In a MANET where security requirement is high, node states should be considered when constructing a private key generator (PKG). In this paper, we propose a distributed hierarchical key management scheme in which nodes can get their keys updated from optimally...
Proxy mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6), a network-based IP mobility solution, is a promising approach for mobility management in all-IP wireless networks. How to enhance its handoff-related performance, such as handoff delay and signaling cost, is an important issue. Current solutions rely on approaches such as fast handoff, routing optimization and paging extension. However, the case of many correlated mobile...
The performance of prevalent MAC protocols in MANETs relies on the level of contention in networks. While contention-based MAC protocols such as CSMA suffer from inefficiency under high contention, slot-based MAC protocols such as TDMA perform in the opposite way. In this paper, we propose a hybrid protocol to which we refer as Load-Adaptive MAC (LA-MAC) protocol for MANETs. By adaptively switching...
To achieve high safety levels in vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs), the Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC) implies each vehicle to periodically broadcast a safety beacon message. Many safety-related applications in VANET are based on the safety beacon messages. To ensure secure communications, the message authentication and integrity must be verified by respectively verifying the public key...
The recent research in cluster-based MAC and routing schemes for Vehicle Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) motivates the necessity for a stable VANET clustering algorithm. Due to the highly mobile nature of VANETs, mobility must play an integral role in cluster formation. We present a novel, mobility-based clustering scheme for Vehicle Ad hoc Networks, which utilizes the Affinity Propagation algorithm in a...
The delay tolerant mobile sensor network (DTMSN) is a new type of sensor network for pervasive information gathering. Although similar to conventional sensor networks in hardware components, DTMSN owns some unique characteristics such as sensor mobility, intermittent connectivity, etc. Therefore, traditional data gathering methods can not be applied to DTMSN. In this paper, we propose an efficient...
The connectivity properties of a mobile linear network with high speed mobile nodes, dynamic node population, and a strict delay constraint are investigated. A new mobility model is developed to represent the steady state node distributions in terms of random node location and random node population. The model accurately captures the statistical properties of random node arrival, time-varying node...
To support emerging pervasive computer applications, efficient data access and information sharing is essential in mobile wireless environments. The data-centric storage approach provides energy-efficient data dissemination and organization. However, wireless devices have limited storage and are energy-constrained. To address these issues, we introduce the concept of content caching networks, in which...
Mobile ad hoc social networks are self-configuring social networks that connect users using mobile devices, such as laptops, PDAs, and cellular phones. These social networks facilitate users to form virtual communities of similar interests or commonalities. This paper proposes a concrete, generalized, and novel framework to develop a fully functional mobile ad hoc social network. The proposed framework...
Location determination for mobile devices in wireless environment has gained much attention in the past years. For those location-unaware devices, detecting radio frequency signal strength from outdoor Base Station or indoor Access Point is the most popular method. However, traditional radio map matching scheme suffers from variation and error when the captured wireless signals significantly deviate...
To make a mobile sensor network allow better coverage of its sensable area, each mobile sensor node needs to recognize the locations of other nodes in a set of coordinates autonomously generated and shared in the network. To uniquely determine the location of a node on a plane, at least three pivot nodes should be selected from all nodes in the network and the scheme of selecting pivot nodes affects...
This paper addresses the important issue of how to optimize the performance of the current mobile backhaul radio access network (RAN) infrastructure to cope with the growing and dynamic nature of the emerging data-centric mobile multimedia traffic and services. Specifically, this work proposes and devises a simple and cost-effective EPON-based dynamic multiservice RAN architecture that efficiently...
Collecting sensory data using a mobile data sink has been shown to drastically reduce energy consumption at the cost of increasing delivery delay. Towards improved energy-latency trade-offs, we propose a biased, adaptive sink mobility scheme, that adjusts to local network conditions, such as the surrounding density, remaining energy and the number of past visits in each network region. The sink moves...
We study the problem of fast and energy-efficient data collection of sensory data using a mobile sink, in wireless sensor networks in which both the sensors and the sink move. Motivated by relevant applications, we focus on dynamic sensory mobility and heterogeneous sensor placement. Our approach basically suggests to exploit the sensor motion to adaptively propagate information based on local conditions...
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