This work addresses the problem of how to enable efficient data query in a Mobile Ad-hoc SOcial Network (MASON), formed by mobile users who share… Read More »Efficient Data Query in Intermittently-Connected Mobile Ad Hoc Social Networks
Demand bidding program (DBP) is recently adopted in practice by some energy operators. DBP is a risk-free demand response program targeting large energy consumers. In… Read More »Demand Bidding Program and Its Application in Hotel Energy Management
In elastic optical networks, digital coherent transceivers modify their symbol rate, modulation format, and forward error correction to best serve the network demands. In… Read More »Congestion Aware Routing in Nonlinear Elastic Optical Networks
Content service is a type of Internet cloud service that provides end-users plentiful contents. To ensure high performance for content delivering, content service utilizes a… Read More »COMIC Cost Optimization for Internet Content Multihoming
Activity models play a critical role for activity recognition and assistance in ambient assisted living. Existing approaches to activity modeling suffer from a number… Read More »An Ontology-Based Hybrid Approach to Activity Modeling for Smart Homes
In the past decade, extending the keyword search paradigm to relational data has been an active area of research within the database and information… Read More »An Empirical Performance Evaluation of Relational Keyword Search Systems
This paper presents ALBA-R, a protocol for convergecasting in wireless sensor networks. ALBA-R features the cross-layer integration of geographic routing with contention-based MAC for relay… Read More »A System for Automatic Notification and Severity Estimation of Automotive Accidents
Wireless networking protocols are increasingly being designed to exploit a user’s measured channel condition; we call such protocols channel-aware. Each user reports the measured… Read More »A Study on False Channel Condition Reporting Attacks in Wireless Networks
In this letter, a new secure information transmission scheme based on polar codes with a pre-shared secret key is proposed. In polar codes, after the… Read More »A Secure Information Transmission Scheme With a Secret Key Based on Polar Coding
ABSTRACT We present a cloud resource procurement approach which not only automates the selection of an appropriate cloud vendor but also implements dynamic pricing. Three… Read More »A Mechanism Design Approach to Resource Procurement in Cloud Computing
Abstract—This paper first envisions the advent of the wireless mesh networks with multiple radios and directional antennas in future. Then, based on the observation that… Read More »A Geometric Deployment and Routing Scheme for Directional Wireless Mesh Networks