Vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANET) have been used in many application and services ranging from intelligent transportation to e-healthcare. However, in VANET, one of the major challenges is the cluster head (CH) selection ...

Security has become one of major concern especially in critical applications like e-healthcare. To cater to the security needs in e-healthcare, this paper proposes a novel scheme which prevents data from unauthorized ...

With the progression of Internet of Things (IoT), the number of connected vehicles in smart cities have shown an exponential growth. In order to enable fast data transfer, these vehicles communicate with each other and the ...

Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) have emerged as a new powerful technology with an aim of providing safety for the persons sitting in the vehicles. Vehicles may be connected to the Internet with/without the existing ...

With high velocity, and sparse distribution of vehicles on the road, routing a packet to its destination is one of the major challenges in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs). To reduce the complexity of transmissions, only ...

With the widespread penetration of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), the overall demand on microgrids (MGs) may increase manifold in the near future. Unregulated power demands from PHEVs may increase the demand-supply ...

Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) have emerged as fast growing networks with aims to provide safety, and comfort to the onboard passengers. But, in this environment reliable data dissemination to the destination nodes is ...

A smart city (SC) is a modernized urban community, which incorporates information and communication technology (ICT) into the existing physical infrastructure. It offers reliable and uninterrupted services such as-intelligent ...

Secure messages exchange among different vehicles is one of the most challenging tasks in future smart cities. Any malicious activity has the potential to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity of ...

In this article, we present the single Depot multiple Set Orienteering Problem (sDmSOP), a new variant of the classical Set Orienteering Problem (SOP). A significant feature of sDmSOP is the presence of many travelers who ...