International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications: Volume 10 Issue 4

Lightweight security scheme for IoT applications using CoAP

Arijit Ukil, Soma Bandyopadhyay, Abhijan Bhattacharyya, Arpan Pal, Tulika Bose

The purpose of this paper is to study lightweight security scheme for Internet of Things (IoT) applications using Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP). Resource-constrained…

Heterogeneous transfer learning for activity recognition using heuristic search techniques

Kyle Dillon Feuz, Diane J. Cook

The purpose of this paper is to study heterogeneous transfer learning for activity recognition using heuristic search techniques. Many pervasive computing applications require…

Participatory sensing and education: Helping the community mitigate sleep disturbance from traffic noise

Kok-Leong Ong, Simone Leao, Adam Krezel

This paper aims to present a project in Australia, where participants use smartphones to measure the level of traffic noise in their homes. Through the data collected…

A duration-based online reminder system

Priyanka Chaurasia, Sally McClean, Chris D. Nugent, Bryan Scotney

The purpose of this paper is to discuss an online sensor-based support system which the authors believe can be useful in such scenarios. Persons with a cognitive impairment, such…

Energy efficient clustering for wireless sensor networks

Zibouda Aliouat, Saad Harous

The purpose of this paper is to design a hierarchical routing protocol. Wireless sensor network (WSN) consists of a set of miniature sensor nodes powered by a low-capacity energy…

LOC algorithm: Location-aware opportunistic forwarding by using node’s approximate location

Sardar Kashif Ashraf Khan, Jonathan Loo, Aboubaker Lasebae, Muhammad Awais Azam, Muhammad Adeel, Rehana Kausar, Humaira Sardar

This paper aims to propose an algorithm, location-aware opportunistic content forwarding (LOC), to improve message directivity using direction vectors in opportunistic networks…

Editorial

Ismail Khalil, Liming Chen