Near field communication (NFC) is a short-range wireless communication technology
envisioned to support a large gamut of smart-device applications, such as payment and …

With the fast-paced development of computing technologies, mobile devices have almost
sufficient computation and communication capabilities to support mobile multimedia …

Formal analysis techniques, such as probabilistic model checking, offer an effective
mechanism for model-based performance and verification studies of communication …

This paper deals with the design and implementation of security mechanisms in networked
embedded systems (eg Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN)), without the support of external …

Cross-layer design has become one of the most effective and efficient methods to provide
Quality of Service (QoS) over various communication networks, especially over wireless …

Cloud computing represents an emerging paradigm in the framework of ICT, describing a
computing model where business applications are allocated to a combination of …

Information transfer rate (ITR) is used as the primary metric in the evaluation of many
synchronized brain interface (BI) systems. In this paper, the ITR of self-paced BI systems is …

Homeland security and monitoring of critical infrastructures, such as buildings, bridges,
nuclear power plants, aircrafts, etc., represent challenging application domains for modern …

Due to the attractive characteristics of high capacity, high-speed, wide coverage and low
transmission power, Wireless Mesh Networks become the ideal choice for the next …

This paper provides a review of the different cross-layer design and protocol tuning
approaches that may be used to meet a growing need to support inelastic soft real-time …