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The fast-paced development of power systems necessitates smart grids to facilitate real-time cont... more The fast-paced development of power systems necessitates smart grids to facilitate real-time control and monitoring with bidirectional communication and electricity flows. Future smart grids are expected to have reliable, efficient, secured, and cost-effective power management with the implementation of distributed architecture. To focus on these requirements, we provide a comprehensive survey on different cloud computing applications for the smart grid architecture, in three different areas—energy management, information management, and security. In these areas, the utility of cloud computing applications is discussed, while giving directions on future opportunities for the development of the smart grid. We also highlight different challenges existing in the conventional smart grid (without cloud application) that can be overcome using cloud. In this survey, we present a synthesized overview of the current state of research on smart grid development. We also identify the current research problems in the areas of cloud-based energy management, information management, and security in smart grid.

In a mobile video surveillance system (MVSS), an efficient approach is required, so that captured... more In a mobile video surveillance system (MVSS), an efficient approach is required, so that captured video can be transmitted to its final destination under tight constraints of delay and accuracy. This paper presents a new intelligent MVSS using the concepts of Bayesian coalition game and learning automata (LA). These LA are assumed to be the players in a game and are deployed on vehicles. Coalition among players is formed using the Bayesian Coalition Game Theory. To decrease the delay that occurred during transmission of captured video to the nearest access points, the best path is chosen based on a new metric called Path Score, which is computed by each player in the game. For each action performed by the automata, their actions may be rewarded or penalized by a value, which is defined as a sequence, with respect to the inputs provided from the stochastic environment. According to the reward or penalty received from the environment, the automata update their action probability vector. After 15 iterations, a Nash equilibrium is achieved in the game by defining a twice-differentiable function in Banach spaces, and convergence of sequence is proved using the Cauchy convergence theorem. The performance of the proposed scheme is found to be better in comparison to the other state-of-the-art schemes, with respect to various performance evaluation metrics. Index Terms—Game theory, learning automata (LA), mobile video surveillance, vehicular sensor networks (VSNs).

• A Bayesian Coalition game-based reliable data transmission is proposed for vehicular cloud. • L... more • A Bayesian Coalition game-based reliable data transmission is proposed for vehicular cloud. • Learning Automata (LA) are assumed to be the players in the game. • For each action taken by the players in the game, they may get a reward or a penalty based upon which all the future actions to be taken are decided. • The results obtained are convincing as compared to other approaches of its category. a b s t r a c t The exponential growth in the demands of users to access various resources during mobility has led to the popularity of Vehicular Mobile Cloud. Vehicular users may access various resources on road from the cloud which acts as a service provider for them. Most of the existing proposals on vehicular cloud use unicast sender-based data forwarding, which results in an overall performance degradation with respect to the metrics such as packet delivery ratio, end-to-end delay, and reliable data transmission. Most of the applications for vehicular cloud have tight upper bounds with respect to reliable transmission. In view of the above, in this paper, we formulate the problem of reliable data forwarding as a Bayesian Coalition Game (BCG) using Learning Automata concepts. Learning Automata (LA) are assumed as the players in the game stationed on the vehicles. For taking adaptive decisions about reliable data forwarding, each player observes the moves of the other players in the game. For this purpose, a coalition game is formulated among the players of the game for taking adaptive decisions. For each action taken by a player in the game, it gets a reward or a penalty from the environment, and accordingly, it updates its action probability vector. An adaptive Learning Automata based Contention Aware Data Forwarding (LACADF) is also proposed. The proposed scheme is evaluated in different network scenarios with respect to parameters such as message overhead, throughput, and delay by varying the density and mobility of the vehicles. The results obtained show that the proposed scheme is better than the other conventional schemes with respect to the above metrics.

The research and development in wireless communication and networking is more focused on deliveri... more The research and development in wireless communication and networking is more focused on delivering sensitive information to its final destination under several constraints such as energy, latency, reliability, stability, and security. Through the rapid advancement in digital technology, wireless transceiver, and Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS), it can be possible to inte- grate sensing and computing units along with transceiver and power supply into a single unit called as Sensor Nodes (SNs). The collection of SNs built a specialized type of network called as Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Many pre-existing research proposals on WSNs have focused mainly on min- imization of energy consumption during the process of sensing, computation and transferring the same to the Base Station (BS) through gateways. Although clustering is the most prominent technique for the enhancement of network lifetime by efficient energy utilization of SN, but node heterogeneity is another interesting aspect which can be used to save the energy consump- tion of SNs in the network field. Keeping in view of all these issues, in this paper, we have categorized various heterogeneous routing protocols for WSNs based upon predefined parameters. In this work, we focused on the static BS only, however, the location of BS is not fixed. Relative comparison of various protocols with other state of the art existing protocols is provided with respect to different performance evaluation parameters, like CH Selection, energy Efficiency, Security and Application Specific. The broad categoriza- tion gives insights to various users to select one of the protocols from different categories based upon its merits over the other proposals.

Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is a leading technology of the present era. It has gained huge attenti... more Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is a leading technology of the present era. It has gained huge attention with respect to its implementation in wide variety of domains ranging from traffic safety to infotainment applications. However, IoV can also be extended to healthcare domain, where the patients can be provided healthcare services on-the-fly. We extend this novel concept in this paper and refer it as “Healthcare services on-the-fly”. The concept of game theory has been used among the vehicles that seek to access the healthcare services while traveling. The vehicles act as players in the game and tend to form and split coalitions to access these services. A learning automata (LA) is also coupled with the proposed game theoretical strategy. LA helps the players to interact with the environment and take appropriate actions based on reward and penalty. Apart from this, Virtual Machine (VM) scheduling algorithm for efficient utilization of resources at cloud level has also been formulated. A stochastic reward net (SRN)-based model is used to represent the coalition formation and splitting with respect to availability of these resources. The performance of the proposed scheme is evaluated using various performance evaluation metrics. The results obtained proves the effectiveness of the proposed scheme in comparison to the best, first and random fit schemes.

—The evolution of Internet of Things (IoT) leads to the emergence of Internet of Vehicles (IoV). ... more —The evolution of Internet of Things (IoT) leads to the emergence of Internet of Vehicles (IoV). In IoV, nodes/vehicles are connected with one another to form a Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET). But, due to constant topological changes, database repository (centralized/distributed) in IoV is of spatio-temporal nature, as it contains traffic-related data which is dependent on time and location from a large number of interconnected vehicles. The nature of collected data varies in size, volume, and dimensions with the passage of time which requires large storage and computation time for processing. So, one of the biggest challenges in IoV is to process this large volume of data and later on deliver to its destination with the help of a set of the intermediate/relay nodes. The intermediate/relay nodes may act either in cooperative or non-cooperative mode for processing the spatio-temporal data. This paper analyze this problem using Bayesian Coalition Game (BCG) and Learning Automata (LA). The LA stationed on the vehicles are assumed to be the players in the game. For each action performed by an automaton, it may get a reward or a penalty from the environment using which each automaton updates its action probability vector for all the actions to be taken in future. A detailed comparison has been provided by analyzing the cooperative and non-cooperative nature of the players in the game. The existence of Nash Equilibrium (NE) with respect to the probabilistic belief of the strategies of the other players in the coalition game is also analyzed.

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Health telematics is a growing up issue that is becoming a major improvement on patient lives, es... more Health telematics is a growing up issue that is becoming a major improvement on patient lives, especially in elderly, disabled, and chronically ill. In recent years, information and communication technologies improvements, along with mobile Internet, offering anywhere and anytime connectivity, play a key role on modern healthcare solutions. In this context, mobile health (m-Health) delivers healthcare services, overcoming geographical, temporal, and even organizational barriers. M-Health solutions address emerging problems on health services, including, the increasing number of chronic diseases related to lifestyle, high costs of existing national health services, the need to empower patients and families to self-care and handle their own healthcare, and the need to provide direct access to health services, regardless of time and place. Then, this paper presents a comprehensive review of the state of the art on m-Health services and applications. It surveys the most significant research work and presents a deep analysis of the top and novel m-Health services and applications proposed by industry. A discussion considering the European Union and United States approaches addressing the m-Health paradigm and directives already published is also considered. Open and challenging issues on emerging m-Health solutions are proposed for further works.

The use of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is growing up in the last few years. Therefore, new ch... more The use of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is growing up in the last few years. Therefore, new challenges arise every day and one of the emerging challenges in WSNs is the nodes mobility support. This feature increases the application areas of these technologies but also raises new challenges to solve. This paper proposes a new handover mechanism, called Hand4MAC (Handover mechanism for MAC layer supporting continuous communication in mobile wireless sensor networks), to deal with body sensors mobility in scenarios where patients are hospitalized. This approach tries to provide continuous monitoring and communication with these sensor nodes when they move across different access points wireless coverage range. The proposed method for medium access control (MAC) layer considers that nodes remain within the same network. The evaluation study of the proposed algorithm was performed by simulation and evaluated in comparison with the well-known RSSI-based handover algorithm. It was concluded that Hand4MAC performs better and reveals promising results for real deployment.

This paper proposed an efficient decentralized public key infrastructure (PKI) using the concepts... more This paper proposed an efficient decentralized public key infrastructure (PKI) using the concepts of Bayesian Coalition Game (BCG) and Learning Automata (LA). LA are assumed as the players in the game, which coordinate among one another for information sharing. To preserve the confidentiality and integrity of the messages, dynamic coalition among the players of the game is formulated using symmetric key encryption and hash-based message authentication. Also, privacy preservation and certificate revocation are included in the proposed scheme to defend against the misbehaving vehicles. For each action taken by an automaton, its action may be rewarded/penalized by the environment in which it operates. LA update their actions probability matrices by getting the reinforcement signal from the environment. The performance of the proposed scheme is evaluated with respect to various metrics in comparison to the other state-of-the-art existing schemes. The results obtained prove the superiority of the proposed scheme.

Different techniques and methods have been widely used in the subject of automatic anomaly detect... more Different techniques and methods have been widely used in the subject of automatic anomaly detection in computer networks. Attacks, problems and internal failures when not detected early may badly harm an entire Network system. Thus, an autonomous anomaly detection system based on the statistical method principal component analysis (PCA) is proposed. This approach creates a network profile called Digital Signature of Network Segment using Flow Analysis (DSNSF) that denotes the predicted normal behavior of a network traffic activity through historical data analysis. That digital signature is used as a threshold for volume anomaly detection to detect disparities in the normal traffic trend. The proposed system uses seven traffic flow attributes: bits, packets and number of flows to detect problems, and source and destination IP addresses and Ports, to provides the network administrator necessary information to solve them. Via evaluation techniques performed in this paper using real network traffic data, results showed good traffic prediction by the DSNSF and encouraging false alarm generation and detection accuracy on the detection schema using thresholds.

Cognitive radio-based clustering for opportunistic shared spectrum access to enhance lifetime of ... more Cognitive radio-based clustering for opportunistic shared spectrum access to enhance lifetime of wireless sensor network, Pervasive and Mobile Computing (2015),

Multimedia communications are attracting great attention from the research, industry, and end-use... more Multimedia communications are attracting great attention from the research, industry, and end-user communities. ce latter are increasingly claiming for higher levels of quality and the possibility of consuming multimedia content from a plethora of devices at their disposal. Clearly, the most appealing gadgets are those that communicate wirelessly to access these services. However, current wireless technologies raise severe concerns to support extremely demanding services such as real-time multimedia transmissions. cis paper evaluates from QoE and QoS perspectives the capability of the ad hoc routing protocol called BATMAN to support Voice over IP and video traffic. To this end, two test-benches were proposed, namely, a real (emulated) testbed and a simulation framework. Additionally, a series of modikcations was proposed on both protocols' parameters settings and video-stream characteristics that contributes to further improving the multimedia quality perceived by the users. ce performance of the well-extended protocol OLSR is also evaluated in detail to compare it with BATMAN. From the results, a notably high correlation between real experimentation and computer simulation outcomes was observed. It was also found out that, with the proper conkguration, BATMAN is able to transmit several QCIF video-streams and VoIP calls with high quality. In addition, BATMAN outperforms OLSR supporting multimedia traffic in both experimental and simulated environments.

In wireless multimedia sensor networks (W-MSNs), the energy consumption of multimedia data type a... more In wireless multimedia sensor networks (W-MSNs), the energy consumption of multimedia data type are much higher than that of traditional wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Heavy multimedia data relaying operation causes not only single sensor node dead early, but also 'hot spots' problem. In this paper, a novel energy efficient data gathering scheme with a mobile sink for WMSNs, BTDGS, is proposed. It is based on a virtual binary-tree infrastructure. The mobile sink moves along a predefined circle trajectory, and sensor nodes relay data packages in a greedy manner. The process of BTDGS data gathering includes sink location broadcasting phase, data collection phase, and sink leaving broadcasting phase. The simulation results show that our BTDGS is an energy effective, reliable, timely, and sojourn time adaptive data gathering scheme. It is feasible and suitable for WMSNs.

This article aims to characterize the different types of Facebook and Twitter groups for differen... more This article aims to characterize the different types of Facebook and Twitter groups for different mental diseases, their purposes, and their functions. We focused the search on depressive disorders, dementia, and Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases and examined the Facebook (www.facebook.com) and Twitter (www. twitter.com) groups. We used four assessment criteria: (1) purpose, (2) type of creator, (3) telehealth content, and (4) free-text responses in surveys and interviews. We observed a total of 357 Parkinson groups, 325 dementia groups, 853 Alzheimer groups, and 1127 depression groups on Facebook and Twitter. Moreover, we analyze the responses provided by different users. The survey and interview responses showed that many people were interested in using social networks to support and help in the fight against these diseases. The results indicate that social networks are acceptable by users in terms of simplicity and utility. People use them for finding support, information, self-help, advocacy and awareness, and for collecting funds.

Date of publication: 7 December 2015 ith an aim to maintain the reliability and transparency of p... more Date of publication: 7 December 2015 ith an aim to maintain the reliability and transparency of power distribution to consumers, smart grids (SGs) are envisioned to become one of the leading technologies while the usage of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) has increased exponentially. However, due to uncertain demands for the usage of resources of SGs, there may be a performance bottleneck at some points in SGs. An intelligent infrastructural support for PEVs is thus required so that the PEVs can perform energy trading from the SG control center. The energy can be generated from various conventional and nonconventional sources. Keeping focus on these points, we present an intelligent energy harvesting and traffic flow forecasting for PEVs in a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) environment. In the proposed game, vehicles are assumed as the players of the game such that learning components are assumed to be deployed on these vehicles having cooperation with intermediate relay nodes. The selection of the relay nodes is completed using a Naive Bayes classifier having input parameters as the current payoff of the

The growing gap between microprocessor speed and DRAM speed is a major problem that computer desi... more The growing gap between microprocessor speed and DRAM speed is a major problem that computer designers are facing. In order to narrow the gap, main memory is expected to grow significantly in both speed and capacity for it is a major shared resource among cores in a multi-core system, which will lead to increasing power consumption, perhaps replacing the dominant consuming fraction of processor. Therefore, it is critical to address the power issue without seriously decreasing performance in the main memory subsystem. In this paper, we propose a periodically active rank scheduling (PARS) to optimize power efficiency for DRAM in smart phones. Our scheduling features a three-step design. First, we partition all threads in the system into groups. Second, we modify page allocation policy to achieve threads in the same group which occupies the same rank but different banks of DRAM. Finally, we sequentially schedule threads in one group after another while only active running group's ranks to retain other ranks low power status. As a result, our scheduling periodically activates one rank after another to optimize memory power efficiency. We implement PARS in Linux 2.6.39 kernel running randomly generated workloads containing single-threaded and multi-threaded benchmark. Experimental results show that PARS can improve both the memory power efficiency by 26.8% and performance by 4.2% average relative to default system while reducing negligible fairness.

The overall demographic profile of current societies point to a significant growth of the elderly... more The overall demographic profile of current societies point to a significant growth of the elderly people. Associated with the increase of the average hope of life and consequent increase in chronic diseases, there is the need for protection and daily care. Increasing investments in technology , such as Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) solutions, promote the quality of live extending the time people can live in their desired environment. This paper proposes the design, deployment, and real testbed of an e-health wearable monitoring system based on the integration of several AAL tools and platforms for elderly's bio-signals monitoring. This solution includes electrocardiography (ECG), respiration rate, beats per minute, body temperature, and falls detention and notification. The paper also describes, in detail, the real pilot and analyzes some early results concerning the users quality of experience, and the found results are very promising.