The expansion of big data and the evolution of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies have
played an important role in the feasibility of smart city initiatives. Big data offer the potential …

How to shorten time delay and enhance delivery ratio in sparse settings is still an open issue
in the study of opportunistic networks. Most proposals are trying to deal with this issue by …

A Maritime Transportation System (MTS) accomplishes diverse tasks including efficient
route, information management, transportation stations. In particular, security and …

Dynamically adjusting the time duration of a node to stay active in one data collection
period, ie, duty cycle, is an efficient strategy to save energy and prolong the lifetime of …

Existing opportunity networks can hardly satisfy the requirements of disaster scenarios for
low-latency messaging. Due to this reason, we develop a new opportunistic network …

In order to face the security risks and challenges imposed by the openness nature of the
Internet of Things (IoT), this paper proposes a distributed advanced analytical trust model …

The challenge of drinking water optimization refers to the need to effectively manage and
distribute drinking water in a manner that is sustainable, efficient, and equitable. To address …

IoT sensor networks are applied in several areas, including research, security, and
monitoring. All these applications are based on data collection. A practical solution is a use …

Traditionally robots were stand-alone systems. In recent years, however, they evolved by
connecting to each other and external knowledge resources through the Internet of Things …

Software defined wireless sensor networks (SDWSN), which separate the control and data
forwarding functions, have been proposed to solve the management dilemma of …