HCIS

Abstract Group key agreement protocol permits a set of users to create a common key to make sure security of information exchange among members of the group. It is extensively used in secure multipar…

Vankamamidi S. Naresh, Sivaranjani Reddi & Nistala V. E. S. Murthy

Abstract Mobile crowdsourcing has emerged as a promising collaboration paradigm in which each spatial task requires a set of mobile workers in near vicinity to the target location. Considering the de…

Yong Sun & Wenan Tan

Abstract Identification and classification of extremist-related tweets is a hot issue. Extremist gangs have been involved in using social media sites like Facebook and Twitter for propagating their i…

Shakeel Ahmad, Muhammad Zubair Asghar, Fahad M. Alotaibi & Irfanullah Awan

Abstract Constructing an ontology-based machine-readable knowledge base system from different sources with minimum human intervention, also known as ontology-based machine-readable knowledge base con…

Shirin Akther Khanam, Fei Liu & Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen

Abstract The spectrum sensing performance depends on the accuracy of the detection about whether primary users are busy or idle. Previous studies on cognitive radio spectrum sensing have shown that t…

Runze Wan, Lixin Ding, Naixue Xiong, Wanneng Shu & Li Yang

Abstract Internet of Things (IoT) creates a world where smart objects and services interacting autonomously. Taking into account the dynamic-heterogeneous characteristic of interconnected devices in …

Venus Mohammadi, Amir Masoud Rahmani, Aso Mohammed Darwesh & Amir Sahafi

Abstract To avoid shrinking down the performance and preserve energy, low-end mobile devices can collaborate with the nearby ones by offloading computation intensive code. However, despite the long r…

Minh Le, Stephen Clyde & Young-Woo Kwon

Abstract Nowadays, people are easy to have a remote conferencing in different scenarios. However, the potential of mobile video communication has yet to be fully exploited. In our research, we explor…

Minghao Cai & Jiro Tanaka

Abstract In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), sensor devices must be equipped with the capabilities of sensing, computation and communication. These devices work continuously through non-rechargeable …

Jin Wang, Xiujian Gu, Wei Liu, Arun Kumar Sangaiah & Hye-Jin Kim

Abstract Ground segmentation is an important step for any autonomous and remote-controlled systems. After separating ground and nonground parts, many works such as object tracking and 3D reconstructi…

Phuong Minh Chu, Seoungjae Cho, Jisun Park, Simon Fong & Kyungeun Cho

Abstract Software defined networking (SDN) is becoming more and more popular due to its key features, such as monitoring, fine-grained control, flexibility and scalability. The centralized control of…

Muhammad Imran, Muhammad Hanif Durad, Farrukh Aslam Khan & Abdelouahid Derhab

Abstract In data center companies, cloud computing can host multiple types of heterogeneous virtual machines (VMs) and provide many features, including flexibility, security, support, and even better…

Shayem Saleh Alresheedi, Songfeng Lu, Mohamed Abd Elaziz & Ahmed A. Ewees

Abstract Location-based mobile marketing recommendation has become one of the hot spots in e-commerce. The current mobile marketing recommendation system only treats location information as a recomme…

Chunyong Yin, Shilei Ding & Jin Wang

Abstract The threat to critical water system infrastructure has increased in recent years as is evident from the increasing number of reported attacks against these systems. Preventative security mec…

Daniel T. Ramotsoela, Gerhard P. Hancke & Adnan M. Abu-Mahfouz

Abstract With the rapid development of networks and Information technologies, cloud computing is not only becoming popular, the types of cloud services available are also increasing. Through cloud se…

Chao-Tung Yang, Shuo-Tsung Chen, Yu-Wei Chan & Yu-Chuan Shen