Vehicular networks need to guarantee the communication reliability levels necessary to satisfy the application requirements, while ensuring a stable network operation even under dense deployments. To this aim, congestion and awareness control protoco...
Routing algorithms is a key factor that determines the performance of NoC (Networks-on-Chip) systems. Regional congestion awareness routing algorithms have shown great potential in improving the performance of NoC. However, it incurs a significant qu...
The advancement of the sensing capabilities of end devices drives a variety of data-intensive insights, yielding valuable information for modelling intelligent industrial applications. To apply intelligent models in 5G and beyond, edge intelligence i...
Although various studies have investigated public acceptance of congestion charge policies, most of them have focused on behavioral and policy-related factors, and did not consider the moderating influence that individual concern about smog and perce...
Traditional vehicle ad hoc networks (VANETs) have evolved toward the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) during the past ten years with the introduction of 5G communication technology and the growing number of vehicles linked to the Internet. The coexistence...
Vehicular ad Hoc networks (VANETs) support a variety of applications ranging from critical safety applications to “infotainment” or “comfort” applications. In North America, 75 MHz of the spectrum in the 5.9 GHz band has been allocated for vehicular...
Network survivability endeavors to ensure the uninterrupted provisioning of services by the network operators in case of a disaster event. Studies and news reports show that network failures caused by physical attacks and natural disasters have signi...
Forecasting pedestrian congestion in urban back streets is challenging due to “shadow areas” where CCTV coverage is absent and trajectory data cannot be directly collected. To address these gaps, we propose the Peak-aware Graph-attention...
In contemporary evacuation systems, the evacuation sign typically points fixedly towards the nearest emergency exit, providing guidance to evacuees. However, this static approach may not effectively respond to the dynamic nature of a rapidly evolving...
Wireless networks are trending towards large scale systems, containing thousands of nodes, with multiple co-existing applications. Congestion is an inevitable consequence of this scale and complexity, which leads to inefficient use of the network cap...
Congestion control is one of the key research topics in relation to the routing algorithms of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In this paper, we propose a congestion-aware routing algorithm (CARA) for unlimited-lifetime wireless sensor networks by in...
In Delay-Tolerant Networks (DTNs), nodes may be selfish and reluctant to expend their precious resources on forwarding messages for others. Therefore, an incentive scheme is necessary to motivate selfish nodes to cooperatively forward messages. Howev...
Traffic congestion detection in surveillance video is crucial for road traffic condition monitoring and improving traffic operation efficiency. Currently, traffic congestion is often characterized through traffic density, which is obtained by detecti...
In this paper, we propose a context-aware multi-scale aggregation network named CMSNet for dense crowd counting, which effectively uses contextual information and multi-scale information to conduct crowd density estimation. To achieve this, a context...
The Internet of Drone Things (IoDT) is a trending research area where drones are used to gather information from ground networks. In order to overcome the drawbacks of the Internet of Vehicles (IoV), such as congestion issues, security issues, and en...
The IPv6 routing protocol for low power and lossy networks (RPL) was designed to satisfy the requirements of a wide range of Internet of Things (IoT) applications, including industrial and environmental monitoring. In most scenarios, different from a...
Efficient task offloading for delay-sensitive applications, such as autonomous driving, presents a significant challenge in multi-hop Vehicular Edge Computing (VEC) networks, primarily due to high vehicle mobility, dynamic network topologies, and com...
Reliable multicast distribution is essential for some applications such as Internet of Things (IoT) alarm information and important file distribution. Traditional IP reliable multicast usually relies on multicast source retransmission for recovery lo...
Energy-efficient routing has become a critical issue for advanced energy-hungry unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Routing in a flying ad hoc network is always challenging and becomes even more critical when a small number of UAVs must cover a large ar...
LoRaWAN has established itself as one of the leading MAC layer protocols in the field of LPWAN. Although the technology itself is quite mature, its resource allocation mechanism, the Adaptive Data Rate (ADR) algorithm is still quite new, unspecified...
Efficient spectrum allocation and telecom traffic steering in densified heterogeneous maritime communication networks remains a critical challenge due to user mobility, dynamic interference, and congestion across terrestrial, aerial, and sea-based tr...
The use of drones or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and other flying vehicles has increased exponentially in the last decade. These devices pose a serious threat to helicopter pilots who constantly seek to maintain situational awareness while flying...
Scalability is a significant issue in system-on-a-chip architectures because of the rapid increase in numerous on-chip resources. Moreover, hybrid processing elements demand diverse communication requirements, which system-on-a-chip architectures are...
The widespread deployment of electric vehicles (EVs) has introduced substantial challenges to electricity pricing, grid stability, and renewable energy integration. This paper proposes a real-time pricing optimization framework for large-scale EV cha...
The widespread deployment of electric vehicles (EVs) has introduced substantial challenges to electricity pricing, grid stability, and renewable energy integration. This paper presents the first real-time quantum-enhanced electricity pricing framewor...
Fires in large buildings can have tragic consequences, including the loss of human lives. Despite the advancements in building construction and fire safety technologies, the unpredictable nature of fires, particularly in large buildings, remains an e...
Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks (VDTNs) are networks of vehicles that communicate wirelessly, where there are no permanent end-to-end connections. VDTNs have a highly variable topology, with frequent partitions, and possibly low node density. Thus,...
With e-commerce demand rising, logistic operators are investing in alternative delivery methods such as drones. Because of their aerial reach, drones can provide much needed utility in the last mile by taking the load off of vehicles delivering parce...
Information-centric networking (ICN) is expected to be a candidate for future internet architecture, and it supports features such as multicast that improves bandwidth utilization and transmission efficiency. However, multicast itself does not provid...
The problem of traffic congestion caused by the fast-growing travel demands has been getting serious in urban areas. Meanwhile, the future of urban mobility has been foreseen as being electric, shared, and autonomous. Accordingly, the routing and cha...
With the expected increase in drone operations, inter-operator fairness issues and congestion problems are expected to arise due to the strategic authorization approach mandated in European regulation. As an alternative, the proposed authorization me...
In today’s world, where near-Earth space constitutes an increasingly congested and contested theater of economic, political, and military activities for the growing number of space-faring nations, the significance of actionable situational awar...
With the recent evolution of mobile technology, modern devices equipped with multiple communication interfaces have become popular. The multipath transmission control protocol (MPTCP) has evolved to facilitate multiple communication interfaces throug...
Time-sensitive networking (TSN) is a kind of network communication technology applied in fields such as industrial internet and intelligent transportation, capable of meeting the application requirements for precise time synchronization and low-laten...
Multiple supply voltage is the most prevalent method for low power reduction in the design of modern Integrated circuits. Floorplanning process in this design performs positioning of functional blocks in the layout satisfying both fixed outline and v...
Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) are crucial components of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) aimed at enhancing road safety and providing additional services to vehicles and their users. To achieve reliable delivery of periodic status inform...
In recent trends, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have become popular because of their cost, simple structure, reliability, and developments in the communication field. The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the interconnection of everyday objects an...
Thirty-four interviews were carried out with drivers in four countries to elicit their understanding about pollutants, specifically nitrogen dioxide (NOX) and particulate matter (PM). The results showed that most of the participants knew that cars em...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are vulnerable to several challenges. Congestion control, the utilization of trust to ensure security, and the incorporation of clustering schemes demand much attention. Algorithms designed to deal with congestion cont...
Internet of Things (IoT) technology has facilitated the deployment of autonomous sensors in remote and challenging environments, enabling substantial advancements in environmental monitoring and data collection. IoT sensors continuously gather data,...
Software-Defined Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN)s have gained significance in emergency healthcare applications for remote patients. Prioritization of healthcare data traffic has a high influence on the congestion and delay in the WBAN routing proc...
In the last decade, with the arrival of the 5G communication technology and the increasing numbers of vehicles being connected to the internet, conventional vehicle ad-hoc networks (VANETs) are evolving towards the internet of vehicles (IoV), which m...
The die-stacking structure of 3D network-on-chips (3D NoC) leads to high power density and unequal thermal conductance between different layers, which results in low reliability and performance degradation of 3D NoCs. Congestion-aware adaptive routin...
Congestion in a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) can lead to buffer overflow, resource waste and delay or loss of critical information from the sensors. In this paper, we propose the Priority-based Coverage-aware Congestion Control (PCC) algorithm which...
In this paper, we investigate the optimal beamforming design to achieve joint congestion control and energy-efficient resource allocation in cache-enabled sensor networks. The network of interest works in the time-slotted mode. The dynamic buffering...
Efficient and scalable quantum key scheduling remains a critical challenge in trusted-relay Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) networks due to imbalanced key resource utilization, dynamic key consumption, and topology-induced congestion. This paper prese...
Background: Patient knowledge is crucial for managing and/or monitoring patients with heart failure (HF). However, “real-life” evidence of knowledge level and awareness in HF is yet to be explored. We assessed unselected HF patients&rsquo...
Regarding mobility, health conditions and personal preferences, evacuees can be categorized into different classes in realistic environments. Previous emergency navigation algorithms that direct evacuees with a single decision rule cannot fulfil civi...
Multipath diversity significantly impacts multipath transmission quality. Enough multipath diversity would minimize the negative influence brought by an individual path, thus improving tolerance capability of network congestion and failure. However,...
The demand for transportation among urban residents in China is increasing in tandem with the nation’s population growth, rising consumption levels, and increasing car ownership rates. Breaking the existing high-carbon travel practices and resh...
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