The rapid increase of the number of mobile subscribers as well as the deployment of 3G
technologies are putting strain on mobile backhaul operational expenditures (OPEX) which …

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) consist of sensor nodes deployed in a manner to collect
information about surrounding environment. Their distributed nature, multihop data …

With the recent initiatives to upgrade the existing power grid to the Smart Grid (SG), there
has been a significant interest in the design and development of an efficient communications …

Pervasive mobile and low-end wireless technologies, such as radio-frequency identification
(RFID), wireless sensor networks and the impending vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) …

Wireless ad hoc networks are vulnerable to Sybil attacks due to the broadcast nature of the
wireless medium and an absence of central authority. In a Sybil attack, an adversary …

In all disaster management mission areas such as prevention, protection, mitigation,
response and recovery, the first pressing need is to establish a communication network for …

The common use of smart devices encourages potential attackers to violate privacy.
Sometimes taking control of one device allows the attacker to obtain secret data (such as …

As today, vehicles are equipped with wireless sensors and on‐board computers capable of
collecting and processing a large amount of data; they can communicate to each other via …

The future of ambient assisted living (AAL) especially eHealthcare almost depends on the
smart objects that are part of the Internet of things (IoT). In our AAL scenario, these objects …

As autonomous cyber-physical systems are responding to the dynamism of our hyper-
connected digital world, they are forming so called dynamic autonomous ecosystems, which …