Internet of things (IoT) is penetrating into every aspect of our lives including our body, our
home and our living environment along with numerous security challenges. With rapidly …

IoT-based services benefit from cloud which offers a virtually unlimited capabilities, such as
storage, processing, and communication. However, the challenges are still open for mobile …

Social media networks have shown rapid growth in the past, and massive social data are
generated which can reveal behavior or emotion propensities of users. Numerous social …

In this paper, we predict nodes' social contact patterns from the temporal perspective, and
propose a novel approach to improve the performance of data forwarding in opportunistic …

Location information plays an important role in most of the applications in Wireless Sensor
Network (WSN). Recently, many localization techniques have been proposed, while most of …

Blockchain-based femtocell networks aim to build decentralized frameworks which enable
easy deployment and low power consumption, thus they have been seen promising …

Delivery delay and communication costs are two conflicting design issues for mobile
opportunistic networks with nonreplenishable energy resources. In this paper, we study the …

Delay-tolerant networks (DTNs) are intermittently connected networks, such as mobile social
networks formed by human-carried mobile devices. Routing in such mobile social DTNs is …

Multicasting has an important contribution in a wireless sensor network. Through
multicasting, multiple copies of data at the same time in a single transmission can be …

Device-to-device (D2D) communications can combine the superiorities of both the cellular
network and the Ad hoc network, and it is an efficient way to improve the capacity of short …