The rapidly emerging area of pervasive computing faces many challenging research issues
critical to application developers. Wide heterogeneity of hardware, software, and network …

Task assignment is a crucial problem in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) that may affect the
completion quality of sensing tasks. From the perspective of global optimization, a …

Recently, vehicular networks and inter-vehicle communication have received attention from
the research community and the automotive industry. In this context, many services are …

Nowadays, mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are very common in different areas and have
many applications. The increasing available resources, data and accessing requests in …

VANET is one of the most important parts in smart cities. However, heterogeneous network
devices used by different vehicles make data exchange among vehicles become particularly …

The ability to describe, locate, choose, and interact with services is an integral part of
pervasive computing. Compared to previous computing environments, pervasive computing …

Abstract Service discovery protocols for mobile ad hoc networks attempt to overcome the
inability to locate resources presented by networks in which prior knowledge of node identity …

Recently, mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) have received a lot of attention and can be
used effectively for fast resource sharing due to their flexibility, self-organization and simple …

In this paper, an efficient fault-tolerant routing algorithm for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks
(MANETs) is presented. The proposed algorithm increases the network fault-tolerance using …

In the last few years, the service demand for wireless data over mobile networks has
continually been soaring at a rapid pace. Thereinto, in Mobile Social Networks (MSNs) …