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 networks (VANETs) have received considerable attentions both from academics and industries. VANETs are promising for multi-hop data delivery between a source and a destination vehicle (or a node) because ...

Reducing number of forwarding nodes is an important issue to consider when same message needs to be broadcast to all the nodes in a multi-hop ad hoc wireless network. Without proper measures broadcasting may result in many ...