In recent years, the accelerated escalation of smart phones has led to the increasing popularity of Location-Based Social Networking(LBSN) sites such as Foursquare, Facebook Places, Twitter etc. LBSNs allow and encourage ...

Vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) is an important component of intelligent transports system (ITS) that facilitates variety of safety and non-safety applications. It has some unique characteristics, such as high geographically ...

Global connectivity to Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) is necessary to access the Internet services from the MANET. Nodes in a MANET that connect it to the Internet are called Internet gateways. Internet gateways need to ...

Ad Hoc Network is a decentralized type of network where wireless devices are allowed to discover each other and communicate in peer to peer fashion without involving central access points. In most ad hoc networks, nodes ...

Integration of ad hoc mode into cellular system has enhanced the cellular communication in many ways.But for network designers, many challenges has aroused due to this merging of two types of networks.As ad hoc link is ...