In a distributed system, multiple nodes work together to build a highly available, reliable,
resource shareable, and fault-tolerant system to achieve a common goal. Here, multiple …

In wireless sensor and IoT networks dedicated to smart-cities, a leader node performs critical
tasks such as generating encryption/decryption keys. In this paper, the leader is the node …

A very efficient and well-known computing environment is Mobile Adhoc Network (MANET).
However, the node capacity and delay are affected during the data transmission due to its …

Abstract Wireless Sensor Network applications profit from or necessitate the use of leaders,
elected on the basis of some quantifiable and comparable criteria. Hence, a panoply of …

Torus network topology offers many advantages such as higher speed, lower latency, better
fairness, and lower energy consumption. For these kinds of benefits, nowadays, it is used to …

The leader node in a distributed computing system is responsible to establish coordination
among all other nodes that are situated apart geographically. Selection of a suitable leader …

Novel approaches are needed to better facilitate dynamic service replication management in
mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) and to use and apply them within current and emerging …

Mobile crowd computing (MCC) has emerged as an ideal platform for accessing required
computing services from public-owned mobile devices in the vicinity, not requiring to going …

Edge computing is an increasingly popular paradigm, wherein computation comes closer to
the sources of data. A key challenge for edge computing is discovering and utilizing the …

Numerous applications of multi-hop wireless networks benefit from or require the use of
leaders, determined on the basis of some quantifiable and comparable criteria. In this paper …