ICST Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications

Editor(s)-in-Chief: Jun Zheng

ICST Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications is a scholarly archival journal that is committed to the timely publication of high-quality original research papers on all aspects of mobile communications theories, technologies, systems, and applications. All submissions will go through…

ICST Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications is a scholarly archival journal that is committed to the timely publication of high-quality original research papers on all aspects of mobile communications theories, technologies, systems, and applications. All submissions will go through a rigorous peer-review process, and be reviewed by expert referees and evaluated by the editorial board.

Areas of interests include but are not limited to:

  • Mobile cellular networks

  • Mobile ad hoc networks

  • Mobile Internet

  • WiMAX networks

  • Vehicular networks

  • Wireless sensor networks

  • Satellite communications systems

  • Mobile system and network architectures

  • Network control and management

  • Mobility management

  • Modulation and coding techniques

  • Quality of service

  • Reliability and fault tolerance

  • Security and privacy

  • Mobile applications and services

  • Performance modelling and analysis

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Publisher
ICST
ISSN
2032-9504

  • Welcome message from the Editor-in-Chief

    Editorial in ICST Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications 11(7–9): e1

    Jun Zheng

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  • Towards autonomous vehicular clouds

    Research Article in ICST Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications 11(7–9): e2

    Stephan Olariu, Mohamed Eltoweissy, Mohamed Younis

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    The dawn of the 21st century has seen a growing interest in vehicular networking and its myriad potential applications. The initial view of practitioners and researchers was that radio-equipped vehic…The dawn of the 21st century has seen a growing interest in vehicular networking and its myriad potential applications. The initial view of practitioners and researchers was that radio-equipped vehicles could keep the drivers informed about potential safety risks and increase their awareness of road conditions. The view then expanded to include access to the Internet and associated services. This position paper proposes and promotes a novel and more comprehensive vision namely, that advances in vehicular networks, embedded devices and cloud computing will enable the formation of autonomous clouds of vehicular computing, communication, sensing, power and physical resources. Hence, we coin the term, autonomous vehicular clouds (AVCs). A key feature distinguishing AVCs from conventional cloud computing is that mobile AVC resources can be pooled dynamically to serve authorized users and to enable autonomy in real-time service sharing and management on terrestrial, aerial, or aquatic pathways or theaters of operations. In addition to general-purpose AVCs, we also envision the emergence of specialized AVCs such as mobile analytics laboratories. Furthermore, we envision that the integration of AVCs with ubiquitous smart infrastructures including intelligent transportation systems, smart cities and smart electric power grids will have an enormous societal impact enabling ubiquitous utility cyber-physical services at the right place, right time and with right-sized resources.
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  • Analytical modeling of address allocation protocols in wireless ad hoc networks

    Research Article in ICST Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications 11(7–9): e3

    Ahmad Radaideh, John N. Daigle

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    Detailed descriptions of Internet Protocol Address Assignment (IPAA) and Mobile Ad Hoc Network Configuration (MANETconf) are presented and state diagrams for their behavior are constructed. Formulae …Detailed descriptions of Internet Protocol Address Assignment (IPAA) and Mobile Ad Hoc Network Configuration (MANETconf) are presented and state diagrams for their behavior are constructed. Formulae for the expected latency and communication overhead of the IPAA protocol are derived, with the results being given as functions of the number of nodes in the network with message loss rate, contention window size, coverage ratio, and the counter threshold as parameters. Simulation is used to validate the analytical results and also to compare performance of the two protocols. The results show that the latency and communication overhead for MANETconf are significantly higher than the measures of the IPAA protocol. Results of extensive sensitivity analyses for the IPAA protocol are also presented.
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  • Reliability-based server selection for heterogeneous VANETs

    Research Article in ICST Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications 11(7–9): e4

    Seyedali Hosseininezhad, Victor C. M. Leung

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    Heterogeneous wireless networks are capable of providing customers with better services while service providers can offer more applications to more customers with lower costs. To provide services, so…Heterogeneous wireless networks are capable of providing customers with better services while service providers can offer more applications to more customers with lower costs. To provide services, some applications rely on existing servers in the network. In a vehicular ad-hoc network (VANET) some mobile nodes may function as servers. Due to high mobility of nodes and short lifetime of links, server-to-client and server-to-server communications become challenging. In this paper we propose to enhance the performance of server selection by taking link reliability into consideration in the server selection mechanism, thereby avoiding extra client-to-server hand-offs and reducing the need of server-to-server synchronization. As a case study we focus on location management service in a heterogeneous VANET. We provide a routing algorithm for transactions between location servers and mobile nodes. We assume that location servers are vehicles equipped with at least one long- range and one short-range radio interfaces, whereas regular nodes (clients) are only equipped with a short-range radio interface. The primary goal of our design is to minimize hand-offs between location servers while limiting the delays of location updates. Taking advantage of vehicle mobility patterns, we propose a mobility-aware server selection scheme and show that it can reduce the number of hand-offs and yet avoid large delays during location updates. We present simulation results to show that proposed scheme significantly lowers the costs of signaling and rate of server hand-offs by increasing the connection lifetimes between clients and servers.
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  • A decentralized scheduling algorithm for time synchronized channel hopping

    Research Article in ICST Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications 11(7–9): e5

    Andrew Tinka, Thomas Watteyne, Kristofer S. J. Pister, Alexandre M. Bayen

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    Time Synchronized Channel Hopping (TSCH) is an existing Medium Access Control scheme which enables robust communication through channel hopping and high data rates through synchronization. It is base…Time Synchronized Channel Hopping (TSCH) is an existing Medium Access Control scheme which enables robust communication through channel hopping and high data rates through synchronization. It is based on a time-slotted architecture, and its correct functioning depends on a schedule which is typically computed by a central node. This paper presents, to our knowledge, the first scheduling algorithm for TSCH networks which both is distributed and which copes with mobile nodes. Two variations on scheduling algorithms are presented. Aloha-based scheduling allocates one channel for broadcasting advertisements for new neighbors. Reservation- based scheduling augments Aloha-based scheduling with a dedicated timeslot for targeted advertisements based on gossip information. A mobile ad hoc motorized sensor network with frequent connectivity changes is studied, and the performance of the two proposed algorithms is assessed. This performance analysis uses both simulation results and the results of a field deployment of floating wireless sensors in an estuarial canal environment. Reservation-based scheduling performs significantly better than Aloha-based scheduling, suggesting that the improved network reactivity is worth the increased algorithmic complexity and resource consumption.
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  • An efficient geo-routing aware MAC protocol for underwater acoustic networks

    Research Article in ICST Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications 11(7–9): e6

    Yibo Zhu, Zhong Zhou, Zheng Peng, Michael Zuba, Jun-Hong Cui

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    In this paper, we propose an efficient geo-routing aware MAC protocol (GOAL) for underwater acoustic networks. It smoothly integrates self-adaptation based REQ/REP handshake, geographic cyber carrier…In this paper, we propose an efficient geo-routing aware MAC protocol (GOAL) for underwater acoustic networks. It smoothly integrates self-adaptation based REQ/REP handshake, geographic cyber carrier sensing, and implicit ACK to perform combined channel reservation and next-hop selection. As a result, it incorporates the advantages of both a geo-routing protocol and a reservation-based medium access control (MAC) protocol. Specifically, with its self-adaptation based REQ/REP, nodes can dynamically detect the best next-hop with low route discovery cost. In addition, through geographic cyber carrier sensing, a node can map its neighbors’ time slots for sending/receiving DATA packets to its own time line, which allows the collision among data packets to be greatly reduced. With these features, GOAL outperforms geo-routing protocols coupling with broadcast MAC. Simulation results show that GOAL provides much higher end-to-end reliability with lower energy consumptions than existing Vector-Based Forwarding (VBF) routing with use of a broadcast MAC protocol. Moreover, we develop a theoretical model for the probability of a successful handshake, which coincides well with the simulation results.
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