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Data Dissemination Using Interest Tree in Socially Aware Networking
Feng Xia, Qiuyuan Yang, Jie Li +3
Socially aware networking (SAN) exploits social characteristics of mobile users to streamline data dissemination protocols in opportunistic environments. Existing protocols in this…
Social-Similarity-aware TCP with Collision Avoidance in Ad-hoc Social Networks
Hannan Bin Liaqat, Feng Xia, Jianhua Ma +3
Ad-hoc Social Network (ASNET), which explores social connectivity between users of mobile devices, is becoming one of the most important forms of today's internet. In this context,…
Improving Smart Conference Participation through Socially-Aware Recommendation
Nana Yaw Asabere, Feng Xia, Wei Wang +3
This research addresses recommending presentation sessions at smart conferences to participants. We propose a venue recommendation algorithm, Socially-Aware Recommendation of Venue…
BeeCup: A Bio-Inspired Energy-Efficient Clustering Protocol for Mobile Learning
Feng Xia, Xuhai Zhao, Jianhui Zhang +2
Mobile devices have become a popular tool for ubiquitous learning in recent years. Multiple mobile users can be connected via ad hoc networks for the purpose of learning. In this c…
Phone2Cloud: Exploiting Computation Offloading for Energy Saving on Smartphones in Mobile Cloud Computing
Feng Xia, Fangwei Ding, Jie Li +3
With prosperity of applications on smartphones, energy saving for smartphones has drawn increasing attention. In this paper we devise Phone2Cloud, a computation offloading-based sy…
Human Mobility in Opportunistic Networks: Characteristics, Models and Prediction Methods
Poria Pirozmand, Guowei Wu, Behrouz Jedari +1
Opportunistic networks (OppNets) are modern types of intermittently connected networks in which mobile users communicate with each other via their short-range devices to share data…
User Popularity-based Packet Scheduling for Congestion Control in Ad-hoc Social Networks
Feng Xia, Hannan Bin Liaqat, Ahmedin Mohammed Ahmed +4
Traditional ad-hoc network packet scheduling schemes cannot fulfill the requirements of proximity-based ad-hoc social networks (ASNETs) and they do not behave properly in congested…
Overhead Control with Reliable Transmission of Popular Packets in Ad-Hoc Social Networks
Feng Xia, Hannan Bin Liaqat, Jing Deng +2
Reliable social connectivity and transmission of data for popular nodes is vital in multihop Ad-hoc Social Networks (ASNETs). In this networking paradigm, transmission unreliabilit…
PIS: A Multi-dimensional Routing Protocol for Socially-aware Networking
Feng Xia, Li Liu, Behrouz Jedari +1
Socially-aware networking is an emerging paradigm for intermittently connected networks consisting of mobile users with social relationships and characteristics. In this setting, h…
Socially-Aware Conference Participant Recommendation with Personality Traits
Feng Xia, Nana Yaw Asabere, Haifeng Liu +2
As a result of the importance of academic collaboration at smart conferences, various researchers have utilized recommender systems to generate effective recommendations for partic…
Evaluating IEEE 802.15.4 for Cyber-Physical Systems
Feng Xia, Alexey Vinel, Ruixia Gao +2
With rapid advancements in sensing, networking, and computing technologies, recent years have witnessed the emergence of cyber-physical systems (CPS) in a broad range of applicatio…
An Energy-Efficient Localization Strategy for Smartphones
Haifeng Liu, Feng Xia, Zhuo Yang +1
In recent years, smartphones have become prevalent. Much attention is being paid to developing and making use of mobile applications that require position information. The Global P…
A Localization Strategy Based on N-times Trilateral Centroid with Weight
Tie Qiu, Yu Zhou, Feng Xia +2
Localization based on received signal strength indication (RSSI) is a low cost and low complexity technology, and it is widely applied in distance-based localization of wireless se…
An Optimal ODAM-Based Broadcast Algorithm for Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks
Weifeng Sun, Feng Xia, Jianhua Ma +2
Broadcast routing has become an important research field for vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) recently. However, the packet delivery rate is generally low in existing VANET broad…
A Search Strategy of Level-Based Flooding for the Internet of Things
Tie Qiu, Yanhong Ding, Feng Xia +1
This paper deals with the query problem in the Internet of Things (IoT). Flooding is an important query strategy. However, original flooding is prone to cause heavy network loads.…
Socially-Aware Venue Recommendation for Conference Participants
Feng Xia, Nana Yaw Asabere, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues +3
Current research environments are witnessing high enormities of presentations occurring in different sessions at academic conferences. This situation makes it difficult for researc…
Iterative Nearest Neighborhood Oversampling in Semisupervised Learning from Imbalanced Data
Fengqi Li, Chuang Yu, Nanhai Yang +3
Transductive graph-based semi-supervised learning methods usually build an undirected graph utilizing both labeled and unlabeled samples as vertices. Those methods propagate label…
A Coverage Strategy for Wireless Sensor Networks in a Three-dimensional Environment
Lin Feng, Tie Qiu, Zhenlong Sun +2
Coverage is one of the fundamental issues in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). It reflects the ability of WSNs to detect the fields of interest. In a real sensor networks applicatio…
The Power of Smartphones
Feng Xia, Ching-Hsien Hsu, Xiaojing Liu +2
Smartphones have been shipped with multiple wireless network interfaces in order to meet their diverse communication and networking demands. However, as smartphones increasingly re…
Mobile Multimedia Recommendation in Smart Communities: A Survey
Feng Xia, Nana Yaw Asabere, Ahmedin Mohammed Ahmed +2
Due to the rapid growth of internet broadband access and proliferation of modern mobile devices, various types of multimedia (e.g. text, images, audios and videos) have become ubiq…
Socially-Aware Networking: A Survey
Feng Xia, Li Liu, Jie Li +2
The widespread proliferation of handheld devices enables mobile carriers to be connected at anytime and anywhere. Meanwhile, the mobility patterns of mobile devices strongly depend…
Safety Challenges and Solutions in Mobile Social Networks
Yashar Najaflou, Behrouz Jedari, Feng Xia +2
Mobile social networks (MSNs) are specific types of social media which consolidate the ability of omnipresent connection for mobile users/devices to share user-centric data objects…
Ada-MAC: An Adaptive MAC Protocol for Real-time and Reliable Health Monitoring,
Feng Xia, Linqiang Wang, Daqiang Zhang +2
IEEE 802.15.4 is regarded as one of the most suitable communication protocols for cyber-physical applications of wireless sensor and actuator networks. This is because this protoco…
A Group Key Management Protocol Based on Weight-Balanced 2-3 Tree for Wireless Sensor Networks
Lin Yao, Bing Liu, Feng Xia +2
Multicast in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is an attractive mechanism for delivering data to multiple receivers as it saves bandwidth. To guarantee the security of multicast, the…