International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications: Volume 17 Issue 5

Guest editorial

S. Satheeskumaran, Yu-Dong Zhang, Danilo Pelusi

A non-linear mathematical model-based routing protocol for WBAN-based health-care systems

Ch Rajendra Prasad, Polaiah Bojja

This paper aims to present a non-linear mathematical model-based routing protocol for wireless body area networks (WBANs). Two non-linear mathematical models for WBANs are used in…

Hyperparameter tuning of AdaBoost algorithm for social spammer identification

Krithiga R., Ilavarasan E.

The purpose of this paper is to enhance the performance of spammer identification problem in online social networks. Hyperparameter tuning has been performed by researchers in the…

Lifetime ratio improvement technique using special fixed sensing points in wireless sensor network

Niranjan L., Manoj Priyatham M.

The purpose of this paper is to improve the lifetime ratio of wireless sensor networks for maintaining the battery level at a desired point for better improvement of network…

Heal nodes specification improvement using modified CHEF method for group based detection point network

Suhas AR, Manoj Priyatham M.

The purpose of the paper is to make use of multiple parameters namely; residual energy, closeness to centre and mobility of detection point (DP) for the selection of detection…

Industrial IoT enabled fuzzy logic based flame image processing for rotary kiln control

Merrin Prasanna Nagadasari, Polaiah Bojja

A rotary kiln is a pyro processing device that is used to raise the temperature of materials in cement factories. Temperature monitoring is an essential process in the rotary kiln…

IoT based lung cancer detection using machine learning and cuckoo search optimization

Venkatesh Chapala, Polaiah Bojja

Detecting cancer from the computed tomography (CT)images of lung nodules is very challenging for radiologists. Early detection of cancer helps to provide better treatment in…

Safety driven intelligent autonomous vehicle for smart cities using IoT

K. Balachander, C. Venkatesan, Kumar R.

Autonomous vehicles rely on IoT-based technologies to take numerous decisions in real-time situations. However, added information from the sensor readings will burden the system…

RNN-based multispectral satellite image processing for remote sensing applications

Venkata Dasu Marri, Veera Narayana Reddy P., Chandra Mohan Reddy S.

Image classification is a fundamental form of digital image processing in which pixels are labeled into one of the object classes present in the image. Multispectral image…

Enhanced RSA key encryption application for metering data in smart grid

Anita Philips, Jayakumar Jayaraj, Josh F.T., Venkateshkumar P.

Digitizing of the electrical power grid promotes the advantages of efficient energy management alongside the possibilities of major vulnerabilities. A typical inadequacy that…

Design of low power SRAM- based ubiquitous sensor for wireless body area networks

Kumar Neeraj, Mohammed Mahaboob Basha, Srinivasulu Gundala

Smart ubiquitous sensors have been deployed in wireless body area networks to improve digital health-care services. As the requirement for computing power has drastically…