It is challenging to deploy check-in nodes optimally in a complex network so as to perform
specific check-in like services, eg, fuel supplements etc., but crucial in many real-world …

In many real complex networks such as the city road networks and highway networks,
vehicles often have to pass through some specially functioned nodes to receive check-in like …

Since the inception of networking technology, network topology design has been a
fundamental step for any interconnected system. This classical problem has diverse forms …

The work of routing and topological control for a wireless sensor network (WSN) is often
undertaken by means of its virtual backbone (VB). Usually, a WSN and its VB can be …

We study a novel hierarchical wireless networking approach in which some of the nodes are
more capable than others. In such networks, the more capable nodes can serve as mobile …

Frequently, unit disk graphs (UDGs) are used to model homogeneous wireless sensor
networks (WSNs), in which each node has the same transmission radius. In some …

Over years, many efforts are made for the problem of constructing quality fault-tolerant virtual
backbones in wireless network. In case that a wireless network consists of physically …

Inspired by the backbone concept in wired networks, a virtual backbone is expected to bring
substantial benefits to routing in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). A connected dominating …

Inter-datacenter (inter-DC) networks are essential for large enterprises to deliver high-quality
services to end-users. Since DCs are vulnerable to natural disasters, an inter-DC network …

Decycling and dismantling of complex networks are underlying many important applications
in network science. Recently these two closely related problems were tackled by several …