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Asynchronous flow scheduling for green ambient assisted living communications
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2015 , Article)
AAL applications that support users (in particular, the elderly and patients) in staying at home are increasingly becoming popular in health care systems. Basically, these AAL applications provide personal information ...
Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation and Provisioning Framework for Cloud Data Centers
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2015 , Article)
Energy efficiency has recently become a major issue in large data centers due to financial and environmental concerns. This paper proposes an integrated energy-Aware resource provisioning framework for cloud data centers. ...
Exploiting Client-Side Collected Measurements to Perform QoS Assessment of IaaS
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2015 , Article)
Delivering reliable service offerings to clients remain a challenging aspect in today's cloud infrastructure. A broad number of research studies have undertaken the service evaluation process from one side; that is, the ...
Handoff-aware cross-layer assisted multi-path TCP for proactive congestion control in mobile heterogeneous wireless networks
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2015 , Conference Paper)
Multi-Path TCP (MPTCP) is a new evolution of TCP that enables a single MPTCP connection to use multiple TCP subflows transparently to applications. Each subflow runs independently allowing the connection to be maintained ...
Game theoretic data privacy preservation: Equilibrium and pricing
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2015 , Conference Paper)
Privacy issues arising in the process of collecting, publishing and mining individuals' personal data have attracted much attention in recent years. In this paper, we consider a scenario where a data collector collects ...
BEC: A novel routing protocol for balanced energy consumption in Wireless Body Area Networks
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2015 , Conference Paper)
Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are getting growing interest because of their suitability for wide range of medical and non-medical applications. These applications demand WBAN to stay functional for a longer time which ...
Security and privacy in emerging networks: Part II [Guest Editorial]
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2015 , Article Review)
This is the second part of the " Security and Privacy in Emerging Networks" Feature Topic. In Part I, which was published in April 2015, we selected those contributions that dealt with the theory behind the security and ...
Handover authentication for mobile networks: Security and efficiency aspects
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2015 , Article)
A handover authentication module in mobile networks enables mobile nodes to securely and seamlessly roam over multiple access points. However, designing an appropriate handover authentication protocol is a difficult task ...
Processing geo-dispersed big data in an advanced mapreduce framework
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2015 , Article)
Big data has emerged as a new era of information generation and processing. Big data applications are expected to provide a lot of benefits and convenience to our lives. Cloud computing is a popular infrastructure that has ...
Internet of Things: A Survey on Enabling Technologies, Protocols, and Applications
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2015 , Article)
This paper provides an overview of the Internet of Things (IoT) with emphasis on enabling technologies, protocols, and application issues. The IoT is enabled by the latest developments in RFID, smart sensors, communication ...