International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications: Volume 8 Issue 4

QoS‐aware and autonomic‐oriented multi‐path TCP extensions for mobile and multimedia applications

Codé Diop, Guillaume Dugué, Christophe Chassot, Ernesto Exposito, Jorge Gomez

The goal of this paper is to provide contributions aimed at illustrating how the autonomic computing concept may be applied within a multi‐path transport protocol called…

Empirical analysis of query‐based data aggregation within WSN through Monte Carlo simulation

Sami J. Habib, Paulvanna N. Marimuthu

Energy constraint is always a serious issue in wireless sensor networks, as the energy possessed by the sensors is limited and non‐renewable. Data aggregation at intermediate base…

Towards mobile cloud applications: Offloading resource‐intensive tasks to hybrid clouds

Huber Flores, Satish Narayana Srirama, Carlos Paniagua

Cloud computing becomes mobile when a mobile device tries to access the shared pool of computing resources provided by the cloud, on demand. Mobile applications may enrich their…

Unstructured queries based on mobile user context

Wenwei Xue, Hailong Deng

Many mobile devices today are equipped with diversified sensors that enable the acquisition of rich user context (e.g. GPS location, phone activity) for application utilization…

Quality‐centric soft admission control for video delivery over cognitive radio networks

Pejman Goudarzi

The main purpose of the current work is high quality video transmission over cognitive radio wireless networks.

Editorial

Ismail Khalil