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Asynchronous flow scheduling for green ambient assisted living communications
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2015 , Article)
AAL applications that support users (in particular, the elderly and patients) in staying at home are increasingly becoming popular in health care systems. Basically, these AAL applications provide personal information ...
Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation and Provisioning Framework for Cloud Data Centers
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2015 , Article)
Energy efficiency has recently become a major issue in large data centers due to financial and environmental concerns. This paper proposes an integrated energy-Aware resource provisioning framework for cloud data centers. ...
Exploiting Client-Side Collected Measurements to Perform QoS Assessment of IaaS
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2015 , Article)
Delivering reliable service offerings to clients remain a challenging aspect in today's cloud infrastructure. A broad number of research studies have undertaken the service evaluation process from one side; that is, the ...
Handover authentication for mobile networks: Security and efficiency aspects
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2015 , Article)
A handover authentication module in mobile networks enables mobile nodes to securely and seamlessly roam over multiple access points. However, designing an appropriate handover authentication protocol is a difficult task ...
Processing geo-dispersed big data in an advanced mapreduce framework
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2015 , Article)
Big data has emerged as a new era of information generation and processing. Big data applications are expected to provide a lot of benefits and convenience to our lives. Cloud computing is a popular infrastructure that has ...
Internet of Things: A Survey on Enabling Technologies, Protocols, and Applications
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2015 , Article)
This paper provides an overview of the Internet of Things (IoT) with emphasis on enabling technologies, protocols, and application issues. The IoT is enabled by the latest developments in RFID, smart sensors, communication ...
A unified approach for calculating the outage performance of two-way af relaying over fading channels
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2015 , Article)
Amplify-and-forward-based two-way relaying (TWR-AF) promises significant benefits in wireless networks. In this paper, we aim to obtain unified expressions to determine the outage probability of TWR-AF, regardless of ...
Accountable and privacy-enhanced access control in wireless sensor networks
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2015 , Article)
In general, owners and users of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are different entities. A user may want to hide his/her data access privacy from anyone else including the network owner and, at the same time, users who ...
Automatic Modulation Classification for Low SNR Digital Signal in Frequency-Selective Fading Environments
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
, 2015 , Article)
In this research, a classifier is proposed for automatic modulation classification of some common modulation schemes, i.e., BPSK, QPSK, 8-PSK and 16-QAM. Our proposed classifier considers multipath fading effects on the ...
Secure and distributed data discovery and dissemination in wireless sensor networks
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IEEE Computer Society
, 2015 , Article)
A data discovery and dissemination protocol for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is responsible for updating configuration parameters of, and distributing management commands to, the sensor nodes. All existing data discovery ...