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Web services are widely used in modern software, providing diverse data and functionalities. Some data and functionalities are critical to an application’s execution and user experience, posing strict requirements on the Quality of Service (QoS) ...

Satellite edge computing (SatEC) is an emerging computing paradigm for remote and disaster-affected areas with scarce computing resources. It is crucial to make the appropriate offloading strategy to maximize quality of service (QoS) due to the ...

Opportunistic Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) offer versatile solutions in contexts where the Internet is unavailable. These networks facilitate the transmission between endpoints using a store-carry-forward strategy, thereby allowing information ...

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• Deploying routing protocols in real scenarios is costly, but simulations often give optimistic results.
• This paper introduces a solution to expedite QoS study in MANETs, managing communications and network events.
• The approach ...

Currently, web service-based edge computing networks are across-the-board, and their users are increasing dramatically. The network users request various services with specific Quality-of-Service (QoS) values. The QoS-aware Web Service Composition ...

In recent years, the development of satellite IoT technology has been driving the continuous improvement of global IoT communication capabilities. However, the inherent characteristics of satellite networks, such as high latency, limited bandwidth, and ...

The article presents a collaboration and communication architecture for disaster stressed areas where communication losses restrain disaster response and perplex rescue operations. In these areas, the fragile access networks such as cellular or ...

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• Robust and rapidly deployable network to expedite disaster relief response.
• SDR-assisted network enabling UAV-to-UAV, mobile-to-UAV, and UAV-to-mobile communications.
• HCM supports 3G/4G/Wi-Fi and SDR platforms’ coexistence, ...

Active Queue Management (AQM) is a mechanism employed to alleviate transient congestion in network device buffers, such as routers and switches. Traditional AQM algorithms use fixed thresholds, like target delay or queue occupancy, to compute ...

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• AQM is employed to alleviate transient congestion in network devices.
• Traditional AQM algorithms use fixed thresholds, like target delay or queue occupancy, to compute random packet drop probabilities.
• Due to dynamic network ...

In an Internet of Things (IoT) environment, multiple objects usually interact with one another to meet a complex user’s request. This involves the composition of several atomic IoT services. Given a large number of functionally equivalent services ...

Emerging cloud services and applications pose different Quality of Service (QoS) requirements for the network, where Software-Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WANs) play a crucial role in QoS provisioning by introducing network programmability into ...

This paper investigates the use of Valid Inequalities (VIs) and Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) neural networks in addressing the Offline Nanosatellite Task Scheduling (ONTS) problem within the context of mission planning. The ONTS problem focuses ...

• ReLU neural network is trained to predict the input power of nanosatellites.
• A Mixed Integer Linear Programming within a task scheduling for maximum power point.
• New valid inequalities speed up to 110 times when solving task-...

Large-scale applications in various fields generate big data at a high speed, which needs to be transferred through High-Performance Networks (HPNs). Bandwidth scheduling in HPNs plays a pivotal role in providing Quality of Service (QoS) to such ...

Energy efficiency and awareness of power utilization are significant challenges while building up a cloud computing infrastructure and next-generation data centers. Consolidating Virtual Machines (VMs) is frequently used to lessen data centers’ negative ...

The integration of Healthcare 4.0 and wireless body area networks (HC-WBAN 4.0) offers a unique opportunity to revolutionize healthcare by enabling real-time patient health monitoring. This integration can lead to various benefits, including early ...

• Scheduling IoT service by hybrid optimization of Particle Swarm and Chemical Reaction.
• Offline resource provisioning in an environment comprising both fog and cloud servers.
• Minimizing service delay and delay violation by ...

This paper addresses the escalating challenges posed by the ever-increasing data volume, velocity, and the demand for low-latency applications, driven by the proliferation of smart devices and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. To mitigate ...

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The Regulatory Authority monitors and regulates the telecom market at a national-wide range. One of its main tasks is to put spectrum at the disposal of the Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) for serving the increasing number of users and services. ...

Securing Internet-of-Medical Things (IoMT) devices is a multidomain task that involves analysis of attack patterns from data & control packets. Existing security models either work on pre-emptive analysis, real-time analysis or post-processing ...

• An innovative Proof-of-Medical-Trust (PoMT) based consensus mechanism.
• The Quality of Service (QoS) levels for each block request are continually monitored.
• A Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) model verifies these selections and ...

The Offline Nanosatellite Task Scheduling (ONTS) problem poses a complex optimization challenge, focused on maximizing the number of tasks executed by a satellite in orbit while adhering to Quality of Service constraints such as ...

• Column-generation-based genetic algorithm inspired on branch-and-price.
• First ...

The Internet of Behaviors (IoB) approach supports developing socio-technical systems based on humans’ goals, characteristics, behaviors, and emotions. This paper shows how emotions and behaviors could impact the quality of software systems. We ...

Some of the conventional approaches to task scheduling are discussed in this section. The scheduling of tasks in the Internet of Things (IoT) application is a complex job in cloud computing due to the heterogeneity characteristics of the IoT. ...

in present-day Internet of Things (IoT) is a trending technology and playing a vital role in human life to build up a quality life. With the advancement in IoT devices, Fog computing is turn-out solution to handle IoT applications efficiently. ...