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A Framework Supporting Extreme Emergency Services

In many extreme emergency scenarios, such as natural or manmade disasters, the rescuers may face difficulty using traditional legacy networks due to destruction or collapse of infrastructure in such events or in case of remote disaster locations. The …

A Game Theoretic Approach for Securing AODV in Emergency Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

In many extreme emergency cases such as forest fires or tube terrorist attacks, the rescuers have difficulty using traditional legacy networks due to destruction or collapse of the infrastructure in such events. We use the term emergency mobile ad …

An Efficient Power Control Algorithm for Supporting Cognitive Communications in Shared Spectrum Areas

The concept of Cognitive Radio (CR) is meant to be utilised by both licensed and license-exempt users that coexist in a shared spectrum area whenever they need to avoid causing unaffordable interference to each other by following some rules. In fact, …

Optimizing the Channel Load Reporting Process in IEEE 802.11 k-enabled WLANs

IEEE 802.11 k is an extension of the IEEE 802.11 specification for radio resource measurements. In an IEEE 802.11 k-enabled wireless LAN, an access point or other network element may request from a client or another access point to monitor and report …