Computer Science & Engineering: Recent submissions
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BIRD-VNE: Backtrack-avoidance virtual network embedding in polynomial time
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2014 , Conference Paper)The virtual network embedding (VNE) problem is known to be NP-hard, and as a result, several heuristic approaches have been proposed to solve it. These heuristics find sub-optimal solutions in polynomial time, but have ... -
Joint mode selection, channel allocation and power assignment for green device-to-device communications
( IEEE Computer Society , 2014 , Conference Paper)Device-to-Device (D2D) communication has emerged as a promising technique for improving capacity and reducing power consumption in wireless networks. Most existing works on D2D communications either targeted CDMA-based ... -
Routing and channel assignment in wireless cooperative networks
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2014 , Conference Paper)In recent years, cooperative communication has attracted researchers' attention as it showed a good capability to increase network performance. On the other hand, a cooperative transmission may cause more interference. ... -
Millimeter-wave multimedia communications: Challenges, methodology, and applications
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Article)The worldwide opening of a massive amount of unlicensed millimeter-wave spectrum has triggered great interest in developing high-bit-rate multimedia services and applications. Specific challenges for mmWave communication ... -
Malicious-proof and fair credit-based resource allocation techniques for DSA systems
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Article)We propose a credit-based resource allocation technique for dynamic spectrum access that is robust against malicious and selfish behaviors and ensures good overall system fairness performance while also allowing spectrum ... -
Asynchronous flow scheduling for green ambient assisted living communications
( 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 ... -
Accountable and privacy-enhanced access control in wireless sensor networks
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Article)In general, owners and users of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are different entities. A user may want to hide his/her data access privacy from anyone else including the network owner and, at the same time, users who ... -
A multi-parameter based vertical handover decision scheme for M2M communications in HetMANET
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Conference Paper)The Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication has the potential to connect millions of devices in the near future. Since they agree on this potential, several standard organizations need to focus on improved general architecture ... -
Cloud of things for sensing as a service: sensing resource discovery and virtualization
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Conference Paper)We propose Cloud of Things for Sensing as a Service: a global architecture that scales up cloud computing by exploiting the global sensing resources of the highly dynamic and growing Internet of Things (IoT) to enable ... -
User privacy and data trustworthiness in mobile crowd sensing
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Article)Smartphones and other trendy mobile wearable devices are rapidly becoming the dominant sensing, computing and communication devices in peoples' daily lives. Mobile crowd sensing is an emerging technology based on the sensing ... -
Haddle: A framework for investigating data leakage attacks in hadoop
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Conference Paper)Nowadays Hadoop is popular among businesses and individuals for its low costs, convenience, and fast speed. However, this also makes it the goal of data leakage attacks as sensitive data stored with an HDFS infrastructure ... -
Mobile application security: Malware threats and defenses
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Article)Due to the quantum leap in functionality, the rate of upgrading traditional mobile phones to smartphones is tremendous. One of the most attractive features of smartphones is the availability of a large number of apps for ... -
Quality of sustainability optimization design for mobile ad hoc networks in disaster areas
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Conference Paper)During a disaster, communication systems are partially (or completely) interrupted with very limited resources due to infrastructures destruction and hence the lack of essential services. Meanwhile, the demand for communication ... -
Joint user-channel assignment for efficient use of renewable energy in hybrid powered communication systems
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Conference Paper)In this paper, we introduce a new green resource allocation problem using hybrid powering of the communication system from renewable and non-renewable sources. The objective is to efficiently allocate the power delivered ... -
Handoff-aware cross-layer assisted multi-path TCP for proactive congestion control in mobile heterogeneous wireless networks
( 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 ... -
Distributed fair spectrum assignment for large-scale wireless DSA networks
( Springer Verlag , 2015 , Conference Paper)This paper proposes a distributed and fair resource allocation scheme for large-scale wireless dynamic spectrum access networks based on particle filtering theory. We introduce a proportionally fair global objective function ... -
Online assignment and placement of cloud task requests with heterogeneous requirements
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Conference Paper)Managing cloud resources in a way that reduces the consumed energy while also meeting clients demands is a challenging task. In this paper, we propose an energy-aware resource allocation framework that: i) places the ... -
Software-defined networking for rsu clouds in support of the internet of vehicles
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Article)We propose a novel roadside unit (RSU) cloud, a vehicular cloud, as the operational backbone of the vehicle grid in the Internet of Vehicles (IoV). The architecture of the proposed RSU cloud consists of traditional and ... -
Efficient rule engine for smart building systems
( IEEE Computer Society , 2015 , Article)In smart building systems, the automatic control of devices relies on matching the sensed environment information to customized rules. With the development of wireless sensor and actuator networks (WSANs), low-cost and ... -
Handover authentication for mobile networks: Security and efficiency aspects
( 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 ...