Energy conservation is a critical issue in wireless ad hoc networks since batteries are the only energy source to power the nodes. One major metric for energy conservation is to r...
Short Message Service (SMS) has become extremely popular in many countries, and represents a multibillion dollars market. Yet many consumers consider that the price cellular netwo...
Packet loss and delay in Internet degrade the quality of requested services like VoIP (Voice over IP) or Video Streaming. In novel network scenarios where wired and wireless connec...
The integration of wireless LANs (WLANs) and 3G systems performed at core network level requires very little modifications to the current 3GPP architecture and provides a large set...
Abstract—The development of modern communication technologies fosters human networks (HUNETs)—an information dissemination platform comprised of human-carried wirelessenabled d...