Measuring the vulnerability of communities in complex networks has become an important
topic in the research of complex systems. Numerous existing vulnerability measures have …

Due to the frequent natural disasters in recent two years, UAV assisted disaster networks
have attracted attention due to the flexible information storage and favorable computation …

With the development of big data and high-speed communication networks, traditional end-
to-end transmission mechanisms in social networks are difficult to achieve large amounts of …

Delay and Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) is a network architecture created basically
to overcome non-continuing connectivity. There has been a great deal of research on this …

Device-to-device (D2D) communications over the licensed wireless spectrum has been
recently proposed as a promising technology to meet the capacity crunch of next generation …

The exploration of community features is a key issue in network science and data mining. As
a vital structural characteristic, community vulnerability has been paid great deal of concern …

In the context of vehicular delay-tolerant networks (VDTNs), routing is critical to the overall
performance and functionality of the network. With no static connection, and with a highly …

In emerging 5G wireless systems, Mobile Social Networks (MSN) will play an important role
for providing data services and offloading data traffic from cellular networks. MSNs are …

In this paper, we study crucial elements of a complex network, namely its nodes and
connections, which play a key role in maintaining the network's structure and function under …

In mobile opportunistic networks, a common assumption is that nodes are able to complete
as much data exchange as needed during a communication opportunity, which is, however …