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Cognitive radio based connectivity management for resilient end-to-end communications in VANETs
VANET has attracted a good deal of attention owing to its wide range of important applications. VANET is a special kind of mobile ad hoc network, in which most of the nodes are sp...
Cláudio Silva, Michele Nogueira, Donghyun K...
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2016
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The power of indirect ties
—Friend-to-Friend (F2F) storage systems were shown to suffer from two significant limitations. First, users with a small set of friends are penalized by lack of available storag...
Xiang Zuo, Jeremy Blackburn, Nicolas Kourtellis, J...
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2016
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An economic viability analysis on energy-saving solutions for wireless access networks
As the energy bill for mobile operators rises with the continuing traffic growth, energy efficiency problems attract an increasing attention in the telecommunication industry. H...
Sibel Tombaz, Ki Won Sung, Sang-wook Han, Jens Zan...
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2016
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Mobility and connectivity in highway vehicular networks: A case study in Madrid
The performance of protocols and architectures for upcoming vehicular networks are commonly investigated by means of computer simulations, due to the excessive cost and complexity...
Marco Gramaglia, Óscar Trullols-Cruces, Dia...
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On search and content availability in opportunistic networks
Searching content in mobile opportunistic networks is a difficult problem due to the dynamically changing topology and intermittent connections. Moreover, due to the lack of globa...
Esa Hyytiä, Suzan Bayhan, Jörg Ott, Juss...
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2016
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A measurement study of short-time cell outages in mobile cellular networks
We study the Short-Time Cell Outages (STCO) phenomena affecting Base Stations (BSs) in a mobile cellular operator network. The STCO is defined as a short-time outage of all or s...
Josip Lorincz, Luca Chiaraviglio, Francesca Cuomo
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2016
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Twitter in academic events: A study of temporal usage, communication, sentimental and topical patterns in 16 Computer Science co
Twitter is often referred to as a backchannel for conferences. While the main conference takes place in a physical setting, on-site and off-site attendees socialize, introduce ne...
Denis Parra, Christoph Trattner, Diego Góme...
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2016
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A topic-focused trust model for Twitter
Twitter is a crucial platform to get access to breaking news and timely information. However, due to questionable provenance, uncontrollable broadcasting, and unstructured languag...
Liang Zhao, Ting Hua, Chang-Tien Lu, Ing-Ray Chen
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2016
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Performance of the MAC protocol in wireless recharging under E-limited scheduling
Recharging through radio frequency (RF) pulses is a promising approach to enhance the lifetime of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In this paper, we propose a polling-based MAC pr...
Mohammad Shahnoor Islam Khan, Jelena V. Misic, Voj...
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2016
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Discrete time analysis of cognitive radio networks with imperfect sensing and saturated source of secondary users
Sensing is one of the most challenging issues in cognitive radio networks. Selection of sensing parameters raises several tradeoffs between spectral efficiency, energy efficiency...
Attahiru Sule Alfa, Vicent Pla, Jorge Martí...