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Future Internet, Volume 6, Issue 1

March 2014 - 8 articles

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Articles (8)

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,816 Views
19 Pages

Mobility Tolerant Firework Routing for Improving Reachability in MANETs

  • Gen Motoyoshi,
  • Kenji Leibnitz and
  • Masayuki Murata

24 March 2014

In this paper, we investigate our mobility-assisted and adaptive broadcast routing mechanism, called Mobility Tolerant Firework Routing (MTFR), which utilizes the concept of potentials for routing and improves node reachability, especially in situati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
9,181 Views
16 Pages

A Novel DOA Estimation Algorithm Using Array Rotation Technique

  • Xiaoyu Lan,
  • Liangtian Wan,
  • Guangjie Han and
  • Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues

17 March 2014

The performance of traditional direction of arrival (DOA) estimation algorithm based on uniform circular array (UCA) is constrained by the array aperture. Furthermore, the array requires more antenna elements than targets, which will increase the siz...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,478 Views
29 Pages

6 March 2014

Technology innovations have pushed today’s healthcare sector to an unprecedented new level. Various portable and wearable medical and fitness devices are being sold in the consumer market to provide the self-empowerment of a healthier lifestyle to so...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
11,493 Views
17 Pages

Crowdsourcing as a Tool for Knowledge Acquisition in Spatial Planning

  • Chrysaida-Aliki Papadopoulou and
  • Maria Giaoutzi

5 March 2014

The term “crowdsourcing” was initially introduced by Howe in his article “The Rise of Crowdsourcing” [1]. During the last few years, crowdsourcing has become popular among companies, institutions and universities, as a crowd-centered modern “tool” fo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
195 Citations
34,530 Views
31 Pages

27 January 2014

User-generated content (UGC) platforms on the Internet have experienced a steep increase in data contributions in recent years. The ubiquitous usage of location-enabled devices, such as smartphones, allows contributors to share their geographic infor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
13,053 Views
15 Pages

Analysis Matrix for Smart Cities

  • Pablo E. Branchi,
  • Carlos Fernández-Valdivielso and
  • Ignacio R. Matias

22 January 2014

The current digital revolution has ignited the evolution of communications grids and the development of new schemes for productive systems. Traditional technologic scenarios have been challenged, and Smart Cities have become the basis for urban compe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
10,622 Views
60 Pages

10 January 2014

The next generation of the Internet Protocol (IPv6) is currently about to be introduced in many organizations. However, its security features are still a very novel area of expertise for many practitioners. This study evaluates guidelines for secure...

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