The rapid growth of mobile traffic has heavily overloaded the cellular networks, making it
increasingly desirable to offload mobile users'(MUs') traffic to small-cell networks. In this …

WiFi-Direct is a recently proposed standard for mobile devices to create ad hoc networks. Its
inclusion into the An-droid operating system provides a large user base, making WiFi-Direct …

Under intermittent Internet connectivity, enabling interaction between smart objects and
mobile users in the Internet of Things (IoT) becomes a challenge. We thus discuss the notion …

Network architecture based on opportunistic Delay Tolerant Network (DTN) is best
applicable for post-disaster scenarios, where the controlling point of relief work is any fixed …

In this paper, we present a system that enables people to post and receive tweets despite
disruptions of existing network infrastructure. Our system opportunistically deploys mobile ad …

Wi-Fi Direct, now part of Android smartphones, makes it possible for Wi-Fi devices to
communicate directly without passing through an access point. Before starting actual data …

The rapid advances in technology lead to a mass-market adoption of the multi-radio high-
end smartphone devices and an exponential increase in the mobile broadband data traffic …

Electronic communication is crucial for monitoring the rescue-relief operations and providing
assistance to the affected people during and after disasters. Given the ubiquity of …

In this paper, we propose a novel architecture called Energy Aware Disaster Recovery
Network using WiFi Tethering (E-DARWIN). The underlying idea is to make use of WiFi …

Recent years with the popularity of mobile devices have witnessed an explosive growth of
mobile multimedia contents which dominate more than 50 percent of mobile data traffic. This …