Secure data transfer against the malicious attacks is an important issue in an infrastructure-
less independent network called mobile ad-hoc network (MANET). Trust assurance between …

Recently, numerous real-time, data-rich, and differentiated applications and services have
appeared in the next-generation Heterogeneous Networks. As a result, the number of …

With the development of 5G and other communication techniques, the space-air-ground
integrated network (SAGIN) is regarded as a promising solution to provide wide-range, cost …

Information and power transfer in mobile relay networks have recently emerged
simultaneously, where the relay can harvest the radio frequency (RF) energy and then use …

Opportunistic networks (OppNets) are networks that can be used in situations of sparse
network connectivity. Strategies for implementing secure transmission of messages in …

Opportunistic Networks, a subset of Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs), do not have a
predefined source to destination end-to-end path and hence, offer a multitude of challenges …

This paper presents a new strategy to efficiently deliver messages to influencers in social
opportunistic networks. An influencer node is an important node in the network with a high …

In opportunistic networks (OppNets), routing and data forwarding among mobile devices are
facilitated by relays or next‐hop forwarders. To guarantee end‐to‐end data delivery it is …

There has been surging research interest in utilizing mobile phones for information relaying
in postdisaster areas lacking infrastructure support. A common complication for such …

Since community structure is an important feature of complex network, the study of
community detection has attracted more and more attention in recent years. Despite most …