Smart phones are now capable of supporting a wide range of applications, many of which
demand an ever increasing computational power. This poses a challenge because smart …

The purpose of this survey is to present a critical overview of smart grid concepts, with a
special focus on the role that communication, networking and middleware technologies will …

Cognitive radio (CR) technology is envisaged to solve the problems in wireless networks
resulting from the limited available spectrum and the inefficiency in the spectrum usage by …

Time-critical and delay-sensitive multimedia applications require more spectrum and
transmission resources. With the provision of cognitive radios (CRs), the underutilized …

A variety of communication networks, such as industrial communication systems, have to
provide strict delay guarantees to the carried flows. Fast and close to optimal quality of …

The recent technological advances in micro electro-mechanical systems have promoted the
development of a powerful class of sensor-based distributed intelligent systems capable of …

While the current generation of mobile and fixed communication networks has been
standardized for mobile broadband services, the next generation is driven by the vision of …

The recent increasing interest in ad hoc networks has motivated the study and development
of interference models capable of capturing the intrinsic characteristics of this kind of …

Apart from mobile cellular networks, IEEE 802.11-based wireless local area networks
(WLANs) represent the most widely deployed wireless networking technology. With the …

Abstract—In recent years, research on advancing performance of mobile ad-hoc networks
(MANETs) has attracted a special attention of scientists around the world. In a dynamic …