Computer Communications, Volume 35

Volume 35, Number 1, January 2012

Editorial

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  Marco Conti:
  Editorial. iii

Survey articles

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  Andrea Passarella:
  A survey on content-centric technologies for the current Internet: CDN and P2P solutions. 1-32
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  António Varela, Teresa Maria Vazão, Guilherme Arroz:
  Providing service differentiation in pure IP-based networks. 33-46

Special Section on Security and Social Networking

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  Melek Önen, Thorsten Strufe:
  Special section on Security and Social Networking. 47
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  Alban Hessler, Takahiro Kakumaru, Heiner Perrey, Dirk Westhoff:
  Data obfuscation with network coding. 48-61
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  Iain Parris, Tristan Henderson:
  Privacy-enhanced social-network routing. 62-74
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  Luca Maria Aiello, Giancarlo Ruffo:
  LotusNet: Tunable privacy for distributed online social network services. 75-88

Regular articles

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  Phan Thanh Hoa, Gaute Lambertsen, Takahiko Yamada:
  Seamless handover supported by parallel polling and dynamic multicast group in connected WLAN micro-cells system. 89-99
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  Zhen Zuo, Qin Lu, Wusheng Luo:
  A two-hop clustered image transmission scheme for maximizing network lifetime in wireless multimedia sensor networks. 100-108
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  Amir M. Ahmadzadeh, Juan Eulogio Sánchez-García, B. Saavedra-Moreno, Antonio Portilla-Figueras, Sancho Salcedo-Sanz:
  Capacity estimation algorithm for simultaneous support of multi-class traffic services in Mobile WiMAX. 109-119
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  Keiichi Endo, Yusuke Inoue, Yutaka Takahashi:
  Performance modeling of beaconless forwarding strategies in multi-hop wireless networks. 120-128
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  Antonis Papadogiannakis, Giorgos Vasiliadis, Demetres Antoniades, Michalis Polychronakis, Evangelos P. Markatos:
  Improving the performance of passive network monitoring applications with memory locality enhancements. 129-140
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  Shih-Lin Wu, Jui-Te Chang, Jen-Jee Chen:
  Distributed cell-centric neighborhood-related location area planning for PCS networks. 141-149

Volume 35, Number 2, January 2012

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  Hao Liu, HaiQin Xu, Shuguang Zhao:
  Consistent-degradation macroblock grouping for parallel video streams over DiffServ networks. 151-158
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  Wojciech Fraczek, Wojciech Mazurczyk, Krzysztof Szczypiorski:
  Hiding information in a Stream Control Transmission Protocol. 159-169
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  Roohollah Barzamini, Masoud Shafiee, Aresh Dadlani:
  Adaptive generalized minimum variance congestion controller for dynamic TCP/AQM networks. 170-178
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  Hsiang-Fu Lo, Sghaier Guizani, Tin Yu Wu, Wei-Tsong Lee, Hung-Wei Lin:
  IEEE 802.21-based seamless multicast streaming with dynamic playback control. 179-187
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  Wenmin Li, Qiaoyan Wen, Qi Su, Zhengping Jin:
  An efficient and secure mobile payment protocol for restricted connectivity scenarios in vehicular ad hoc network. 188-195
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  Ming Yu, Xiaoguang Ma, Wei Su, Leonard J. Tung:
  A new joint strategy of radio channel allocation and power control for wireless mesh networks. 196-206
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  Navid Amini, Alireza Vahdatpour, Wenyao Xu, Mario Gerla, Majid Sarrafzadeh:
  Cluster size optimization in sensor networks with decentralized cluster-based protocols. 207-220
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  Jianshe Wu, Licheng Jiao, Ranran Ding:
  Average time synchronization in wireless sensor networks by pairwise messages. 221-233
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  Fabrice Le Fessant, Antonis Papadimitriou, Aline Carneiro Viana, Cigdem Sengul, Esther Palomar:
  A sinkhole resilient protocol for wireless sensor networks: Performance and security analysis. 234-248
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  Emmanouil Kafetzakis, Kimon P. Kontovasilis, Ioannis Stavrakakis:
  A novel Effective Capacity-based framework for providing statistical QoS guarantees in IEEE 802.11 WLANs. 249-262
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  Flávio Henrique Teles Vieira, Flávio Geraldo Coelho Rocha, Josemar Alves dos Santos Jr.:
  Loss probability estimation and control for OFDM/TDMA wireless systems considering multifractal traffic characteristics. 263-271

Erratum

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  Hui Tian, Hong Jiang, Ke Zhou, Dan Feng:
  Erratum to "Adaptive partial-matching steganography for voice over IP using triple M sequences" [Comput. Commun. 34 (2011) 2236-2247]. 272

Volume 35, Number 3, February 2012

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  Essaid Sabir, Rachid El Azouzi, Yezekael Hayel:
  Hierarchy sustains partial cooperation and induces a Braess-like paradox in slotted aloha-based networks. 273-286
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  Vincent Lecuire:
  Unequal error protection under bitrate constraint for video streaming over internet. 287-297
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  Giuseppe Piro, Luigi Alfredo Grieco, Gennaro Boggia, Pietro Camarda:
  QoS in Wireless LAN: A comparison between feedback-based and earliest due-date approaches. 298-308
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  Manel Bourguiba, Kamel Haddadou, Guy Pujolle:
  Packet aggregation based network I/O virtualization for cloud computing. 309-319
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  Ataul Bari, Arunita Jaekel, Jin Jiang, Yufei Xu:
  Design of fault tolerant wireless sensor networks satisfying survivability and lifetime requirements. 320-333
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  Serkan Ayaz, Felix Hoffmann, Ulrich Epple, Reinhard German, Falko Dressler:
  Performance evaluation of network mobility handover over future aeronautical data link. 334-343
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  Wenjie Yan, Mingxi Yang, Layuan Li, Huajing Fang:
  Short signature scheme for multi-source network coding. 344-351
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  Ying Xu, Rong Qu:
  An iterative local search approach based on fitness landscapes analysis for the delay-constrained multicast routing problem. 352-365
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  Francesco Palmieri, Ugo Fiore, Sergio Ricciardi:
  Selfish routing and wavelength assignment strategies with advance reservation in inter-domain optical networks. 366-379
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  Sunho Lim, Chansu Yu, Chita R. Das:
  Cache invalidation strategies for Internet-based vehicular ad hoc networks. 380-391
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  Xiaonan Wang, Shan Zhong, Rong Zhou:
  A mobility support scheme for 6LoWPAN. 392-404

Volume 35, Number 4, February 2012

Regular articles

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  Kiev Gama, Lionel Touseau, Didier Donsez:
  Combining heterogeneous service technologies for building an Internet of Things middleware. 405-417
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  Mukundan Venkataraman, Shamik Sengupta, Mainak Chatterjee, Raja Neogi:
  Designing a collector overlay architecture for fault diagnosis in video networks. 418-430
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  Seung Yeob Nam, Sunggon Kim, Wonyoung Park:
  Analysis of minimal backlogging-based available bandwidth estimation mechanism. 431-443
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  Paolo Giacomazzi, Igor Stanojev, Giacomo Verticale:
  A negotiation-based scheme for service level pricing for wireless access. 444-453
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  Hsung-Pin Chang, Hui-Wen Kan, Ming-Hsin Ho:
  Adaptive TCP congestion control and routing schemes using cross-layer information for mobile ad hoc networks. 454-474
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  Muhammad Ayaz, Azween B. Abdullah, Ibrahima Faye, Yasir Batira:
  An efficient Dynamic Addressing based routing protocol for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks. 475-486
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  Jean-Marc Robert, Hadi Otrok, Abdelkarim Chriqi:
  RBC-OLSR: Reputation-based clustering OLSR protocol for wireless ad hoc networks. 487-499
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  Dukhyun Chang, Kideok Cho, Nakjung Choi, Ted Taekyoung Kwon, Yanghee Choi:
  A probabilistic and opportunistic flooding algorithm in wireless sensor networks. 500-506
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  Young-Long Chen, Jia-Sheng Lin:
  Energy efficiency analysis of a chain-based scheme via intra-grid for wireless sensor networks. 507-516
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  Mehmet H. Suzer, Kyoung-Don Kang, Can Basaran:
  Active queue management via event-driven feedback control. 517-529

Volume 35, Number 5, March 2012

Special section on Hot Topics in Computer Communications

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  Dimitri Staessens, Didier Colle, Mario Pickavet, Ann Nowé, Kris Steenhaut, Piet Demeester:
  Optimization of common pool resource sharing in multidomain IP-over-WDM networks. 531-540
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  A. Argento, Matteo Cesana, Nicola Gatti, Ilaria Malanchini:
  A game theoretical study of access point association in wireless mesh networks. 541-553
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  André O. Castelucio, Antônio Tadeu A. Gomes, Artur Ziviani, Ronaldo M. Salles:
  Intra-domain IP traceback using OSPF. 554-564
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  Pedro Casas, Federico Larroca, Jean-Louis Rougier, Sandrine Vaton:
  Taming traffic dynamics: Analysis and improvements. 565-578

Special Section on Trusted Communications

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  Biming Tian, Song Han, Liu Liu, Saghar Khadem, Sazia Parvin:
  Towards enhanced key management in multi-phase ZigBee network architecture. 579-588
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  Feng Zhang, Zhiping Jia, Hui Xia, Xin Li, Edwin Hsing-Mean Sha:
  Node trust evaluation in mobile ad hoc networks based on multi-dimensional fuzzy and Markov SCGM(1, 1) model. 589-596
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  Ramya Ramamoorthy, F. Richard Yu, Helen Tang, Peter C. Mason, Azzedine Boukerche:
  Joint authentication and quality of service provisioning in cooperative communication networks. 597-607
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  Basit Qureshi, Geyong Min, Demetres D. Kouvatsos:
  A distributed reputation and trust management scheme for mobile peer-to-peer networks. 608-618
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  Jiefeng (Terence) Chen, Roksana Boreli, Vijay Sivaraman:
  Improving the efficiency of anonymous routing for MANETs. 619-627

Regular articles

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  Mohamed Saad:
  On optimal spectrum-efficient routing in TDMA and FDMA multihop wireless networks. 628-636
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  Eva Jaho, Ioannis Z. Koukoutsidis, Ioannis Stavrakakis, Ina Jaho:
  Cooperative content replication in networks with autonomous nodes. 637-647

Volume 35, Number 6, March 2012

Special section on pervasive networked sensing

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  Silvia Giordano, Daniele Puccinelli:
  Special section on Pervasive Networked Sensing. 649
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  Robert K. Harle, Salman Taherian, Marcelo Pias, George Coulouris, Andy Hopper, Jonathan Cameron, Joan Lasenby, Gregor Kuntze, Ian N. Bezodis, G. Irwin, David G. Kerwin:
  Towards real-time profiling of sprints using wearable pressure sensors. 650-660
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  Akira Mutazono, Masashi Sugano, Masayuki Murata:
  Energy efficient self-organizing control for wireless sensor networks inspired by calling behavior of frogs. 661-669
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  Swastik Brahma, Mainak Chatterjee, Kevin A. Kwiat, Pramod K. Varshney:
  Traffic management in wireless sensor networks: Decoupling congestion control and fairness. 670-681

Regular articles

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  Yuh-Jzer Joung, Hsiu-Lin Huang:
  A detailed examination of the overlay construction and maintenance mechanism in BitTorrent. 682-695
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  Jie Feng, Lisong Xu:
  Throughput-smoothness tradeoff in preventing competing TCP from starvation. 696-708
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  Jun Li, Yifeng Zhou, Louise Lamont, F. Richard Yu, Camille Alain Rabbath:
  Swarm mobility and its impact on performance of routing protocols in MANETs. 709-719
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  José Manuel Bande Serrano, José Hernández Palancar:
  String alignment pre-detection using unique subsequences for FPGA-based network intrusion detection. 720-728
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  Po-Kai Tseng, Wei-Ho Chung:
  Near optimal link on/off scheduling and weight assignment for minimizing IP network energy consumption. 729-737
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  Zhian Deng, Yubin Xu, Lin Ma:
  Indoor positioning via nonlinear discriminative feature extraction in wireless local area network. 738-747
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  Rami Haddad, Michael P. McGarry:
  Feed Forward Bandwidth Indication (FFBI): Cooperation for an accurate bandwidth forecast. 748-758
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  Rosario Giuseppe Garroppo, Stefano Giordano, Stella Spagna, Saverio Niccolini, Jan Seedorf:
  Topology control strategies on P2P live video streaming service with peer churning. 759-770

Volume 35, Number 7, April 2012

Special section on Selected Papers from IFIP Networking 2011

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  Jordi Domingo-Pascual, Sergio Palazzo, Caterina M. Scoglio:
  Special Section on Selected Papers from IFIP Networking 2011. 771
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  Pedro Casas, Johan Mazel, Philippe Owezarski:
  Unsupervised Network Intrusion Detection Systems: Detecting the Unknown without Knowledge. 772-783
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  Saptarshi Ghosh, Ajitesh Srivastava, Niloy Ganguly:
  Effects of a soft cut-off on node-degree in the Twitter social network. 784-795
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  Christian Doerr, Norbert Blenn, Siyu Tang, Piet Van Mieghem:
  Are friends overrated? A study for the social news aggregator Digg.com. 796-809
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  Yehuda Afek, Anat Bremler-Barr, Yaron Koral:
  Space efficient deep packet inspection of compressed web traffic. 810-819
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  Eitan Altman, Konstantin Avrachenkov, Sreenath Ramanath:
  Multiscale fairness and its application to resource allocation in wireless networks. 820-828

Regular articles

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  Hakem Beitollahi, Geert Deconinck:
  Ferris wheel: A ring based onion circuit for hidden services. 829-841
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  Stefano Bregni, Paolo Giacomazzi, Gabriella Saddemi:
  Long-range dependence of traffic across schedulers with multiple service classes. 842-848
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  Zhiliang Tu, Qiang Wang, Hairong Qi, Yi Shen:
  Flocking based sensor deployment in mobile sensor networks. 849-860
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  Yuh-Shyan Chen, Kang-Wei Hung:
  VC²-MAC: A two-cycle cooperative MAC protocol in vehicular networks. 861-874
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  Samuel P. Kozaitis, W. Petsuwan:
  Improved anomaly detection using block-matching denoising. 875-884
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  Hooman Lal Dehghani, Saeed Golmohammadi, Kamal Shadi:
  Extract Non-Line-of-Sight state of base stations and error mitigation technique for wireless localization in micro-cell networks. 885-893

Volume 35, Number 8, May 2012

Regular articles

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  Dan Tao, Shaojie Tang, Haitao Zhang, XuFei Mao, Huadong Ma:
  Strong barrier coverage in directional sensor networks. 895-905
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  Abdallah Jarray, Ahmad Nahar Quttoum, Hadi Otrok, Zbigniew Dziong:
  DDP: A Dynamic Dimensioning and Partitioning model of Virtual Private Networks resources. 906-915
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  Neda Edalat, Chen-Khong Tham, Wendong Xiao:
  An auction-based strategy for distributed task allocation in wireless sensor networks. 916-928
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  Wissam Fawaz:
  Enhancement of blocking performance in all-optical WDM networks via wavelength reassignment and route deviation. 929-935
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  Shih-Jung Wu, Shih-Yi Huang, Kuo-Feng Huang:
  Efficient Quality of Service scheduling mechanism for WiMAX networks. 936-951
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  Chao-Chun Chen, Da-Chung Mao:
  PPZTEM: An efficient approximate trajectory extraction method with error bound constraint for wireless sensor networks. 952-969
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  Hui-Kai Su:
  A Local Fast-Reroute mechanism for single node or link protection in hop-by-hop routed networks. 970-979
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  Shin'ichi Arakawa, Tetsuya Takine, Masayuki Murata:
  Analyzing and modeling router-level internet topology and application to routing control. 980-992
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  Luis J. de la Cruz Llopis, Andrés Vázquez Rodas, Emilio Sanvicente Gargallo, Mónica Aguilar-Igartua:
  Load splitting in clusters of video servers. 993-1003
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  Alex Borges Vieira, Pedro de Carvalho Gomes, José Augusto Miranda Nacif, Rodrigo Mantini, Jussara M. Almeida, Sérgio Vale Aguiar Campos:
  Characterizing SopCast client behavior. 1004-1016

Volume 35, Number 9, May 2012

Editorial

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  Jiming Chen, Hannes Frey, Xu Li:
  Special issue: Wireless sensor and robot networks: Algorithms and experiments. iii-iv

Special issue articles

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  Baozhi Chen, Dario Pompili:
  Team formation and steering algorithms for underwater gliders using acoustic communications. 1017-1028
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  Kaoru Ota, Mianxiong Dong, Zixue Cheng, Junbo Wang, Xu Li, Xuemin (Sherman) Shen:
  ORACLE: Mobility control in wireless sensor and actor networks. 1029-1037
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  Arnaud Casteigts, Jeremie Albert, Serge Chaumette, Amiya Nayak, Ivan Stojmenovic:
  Biconnecting a network of mobile robots using virtual angular forces. 1038-1046
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  Carmelo Costanzo, Valeria Loscrì, Enrico Natalizio, Tahiry Razafindralambo:
  Nodes self-deployment for coverage maximization in mobile robot networks using an evolving neural network. 1047-1055
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  Ahmed E. A. A. Abdulla, Hiroki Nishiyama, Nei Kato:
  Extending the lifetime of wireless sensor networks: A hybrid routing algorithm. 1056-1063
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  Hualiang Chen, Yueming Cai, Weiwei Yang, Dongmei Zhang, Yingbo Hu:
  Throughput and energy efficiency of a novel cooperative ARQ strategy for wireless sensor networks. 1064-1073
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  Parth H. Pathak, Rudra Dutta:
  Centrality-based power control for hot-spot mitigation in multi-hop wireless networks. 1074-1085
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  Dhia Mahjoub, David W. Matula:
  Constructing efficient rotating backbones in wireless sensor networks using graph coloring. 1086-1097
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  Der-Chen Huang, Hsing-Chien Tseng, Der-Jiunn Deng, Han-Chieh Chao:
  A queue-based prolong lifetime methods for wireless sensor node. 1098-1106
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  Peng Cheng, Xianghui Cao, Jing Bai, Youxian Sun:
  On optimizing sensing quality with guaranteed coverage in autonomous mobile sensor networks. 1107-1114
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  Yao Zhao, Zhipeng Yang, Hongyi Wu:
  Local information guided autonomous exploration in sensor networks: Algorithms and experiments. 1115-1124
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  Peng Guo, Tao Jiang, Kui Zhang:
  Novel 2-hop coloring algorithm for time-slot assignment of newly deployed sensor nodes without ID in wireless sensor and robot networks. 1125-1131
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  Hamed Yousefi, Mohammad Hossein Yeganeh, Naser Alinaghipour, Ali Movaghar:
  Structure-free real-time data aggregation in wireless sensor networks. 1132-1140
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  Huai-Lei Fu, Hou-Chun Chen, Phone Lin:
  APS: Distributed air pollution sensing system on Wireless Sensor and Robot Networks. 1141-1150
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  Hüseyin Akcan, Cem Evrendilek:
  GPS-free directional localization via dual wireless radios. 1151-1163

Volume 35, Number 10, June 2012

Regular articles

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  Tien Van Do, Nam H. Do, Ram Chakka:
  A new queueing model for spectrum renting in mobile cellular networks. 1165-1171
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  Der-Rong Din, Jhong-Yan Jiang:
  Delay-constrained survivable multicast routing problem in WDM networks. 1172-1184
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  Can Komar, Mehmet Yunus Donmez, Cem Ersoy:
  Detection quality of border surveillance wireless sensor networks in the existence of trespassers' favorite paths. 1185-1199
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  Ricardo Silva, Jorge Sá Silva, Fernando Boavida:
  A proposal for proxy-based mobility in WSNs. 1200-1216
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  Yang Xia, Chai Kiat Yeo:
  Mitigating the impact of node mobility using mobile backbone for heterogeneous MANETs. 1217-1230
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  Djohara Benyamina, Abdelhakim Hafid, Nasreddine Hallam, Michel Gendreau, J. C. Maureira:
  A hybrid nature-inspired optimizer for wireless mesh networks design. 1231-1246
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  Jung-Shian Li, Kun-Hsuan Liu, Chien-Hung Wu:
  Efficient group multicast node scheduling schemes in multi-hop wireless networks. 1247-1258
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  Claudia Campolo, Antonio Iera, Leonardo Militano, Antonella Molinaro:
  Scenario-adaptive and gain-aware content sharing policies for cooperative wireless environments. 1259-1271
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  Ming Tao, Huaqiang Yuan, Shoubin Dong, Hewei Yu:
  Initiative movement prediction assisted adaptive handover trigger scheme in fast MIPv6. 1272-1282

Volume 35, Number 11, June 2012

Special Section on Pervasive Healthcare

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  Franca Delmastro:
  Introduction to the special section on Pervasive Healthcare. 1283
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  Franca Delmastro:
  Pervasive communications in healthcare. 1284-1295
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  Gennaro Tartarisco, Giovanni Baldus, Daniele Corda, Rossella Raso, Antonino Arnao, Marcello Ferro, Andrea Gaggioli, Giovanni Pioggia:
  Personal Health System architecture for stress monitoring and support to clinical decisions. 1296-1305
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  Mélodie Vidal, Jayson Turner, Andreas Bulling, Hans Gellersen:
  Wearable eye tracking for mental health monitoring. 1306-1311

Survey Article

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  Hakem Beitollahi, Geert Deconinck:
  Analyzing well-known countermeasures against distributed denial of service attacks. 1312-1332

Regular Articles

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  Javad Akbari Torkestani:
  An adaptive backbone formation algorithm for wireless sensor networks. 1333-1344
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  Jae-Young Seol, Seong-Lyun Kim:
  Node mobility and capacity in wireless controllable ad hoc networks. 1345-1354
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