The advancements in information and communication technology in the past decades have
been converging into a new communication paradigm in which everything is expected to be …

Social networks have continuously been expanding and trying to be innovative. The recent
advances of computing, caching, and communication (3C) can have significant impacts on …

Extant literature has increased our understanding of the multifaceted nature of digital
technologies; nevertheless, scholars and policymakers still strive to understand their …

For many, this is no longer a valid question and the case is considered settled with software
defined networking/network function virtualization (SDN/NFV) providing the inevitable …

Making new friends by measuring the proximity of people's profile is a crucial service in
mobile social networks. With the rapid development of cloud computing, outsourcing …

The advancement of data communication technologies promotes widespread data collection
and transmission in various application domains, thereby expanding big data significantly …

In vehicular edge computing (VEC), the execution of offloading task needs not only the task
data uploaded by the requesting vehicle, but also the additional data to support the task to …

Climate science as a data-intensive subject has overwhelmingly affected by the era of big
data and relevant technological revolutions. The big successes of big data analytics in …

Scavenging the idling computation resources at the enormous number of mobile devices,
ranging from small IoT devices to powerful laptop computers, can provide a powerful …

In the design of Internet of Things (IoT), sensor nodes are used in collecting data from an
environment and sending it to a base station or sink for future processing. These sensor …