Present failure detection algorithms for distributed systems are designed to work in asynchronous or partially synchronous environment on mesh connected systems and maintain status of every other process. Several real time systems are not mesh connected and require working in strict synchronous...

This paper aims at designing a Timing Structure Mechanism (TSM) for Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) MAC, with specifying its respective logical topology, especially suitable to the monitoring applications, differentiated and characterized from the existing time bounding strategies, paving for a...

The timed automata are extensively used in different fields of formal validation in particular the model checking one. In this paper the authors are interested by a class of TA called durational actions timed automata (daTA) and the zones graph which represents an exact finite state abstraction...

Research trends keep evolving along the time with certain trackable patterns. Mining academic literature and discovering the latent research trends evolution is an interesting and important problem. Few of previous studies focusing on academic topic evolution modeling have addressed the temporal...

Failure recovery in Internet of Vehicles (IoVs) is critical to high quality service provisioning. The main challenge is how to achieve fast rerouting without introducing high complexity and resource usage due to the dynamic topology and the constraints on bandwidth. In this paper, we propose a...

The widespread availability of IoT technologies allows, among others, detailed monitoring of environmental parameters that can be used for effective prevention and forecasts of natural disasters. When such events occur, or are about to occur, the primary concern of authorities responsible for...

The efficient management of natural and man-made disasters typically represents a major information exchange and coordination challenge, as in most countries a number of organizations are involved in all phases of the disaster management cycle. In this article, the authors introduce the approach...

The relevance of cross border security operations has been identified as a priority at European level for a long time. A European network where Public Protection and Disaster Relief (PPDR) forces share communications processes and a legal framework would greatly enforce response to disaster...

Mobile ad-hoc networking is considered as one of the key technologies to support communication when different emergencies or disasters strike. Unfortunately, the majority of existing ad-hoc networking solutions are based on proprietary hardware and software which severely limits their use by...

In the last years, natural disasters have become more frequent and their impacts have reached a large number of people. When these events happen in unprepared regions, they can cause human and material losses. The consequences can be even more catastrophic when the responsible entities are not...