With the advance of wireless local area network (WLAN) technology, handoff support has
become one of the most important issues in IEEE 802.11 WLANs. However, the current IEEE …

The evolving fifth generation (5G) cellular networks will be a collection of heterogeneous
and backward-compatible networks. With the increased heterogeneity and densification of …

This letter proposes a handover authentication scheme using credentials based on
chameleon hashing. The main challenges in handover authentication are to provide robust …

A novel concept of the edge cloud has recently been introduced to reduce transmission
costs in mobile cloud computing services. Heterogeneous networks with diverse radio …

The field of wireless networking has received unprecedented attention from the research
community during the last decade due to its great potential to create new horizons for …

The IEEE 802.11 standard has enabled low-cost and effective wireless local area network
(WLAN) services. It is widely believed that WLANs will become a major portion of the fourth …

The popularity and development of wireless devices has led to a demand for widespread
high-speed Internet access, including access for vehicles and other modes of high-speed …

Mobility support is one of the most challenging issues in IEEE 802.11 networks. In the
proactive neighbor caching (PNC) scheme, when a mobile host is connected to an access …

The future metropolitan-area wireless mesh networks (WMNs) are expected to contain
compromise-prone Mesh Access Points (MAPs) with a high frequency of inter-domain …

Enhancement of security and privacy in mobile data centers is challengeable with efficient
security key management. In order to solve this problem, data centers need efficient …