Ad Hoc Networks: 6th International ICST Conference, ADHOCNETS 2014, Rhodes, Greece, August 18-19, 2014, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes of the ... and Telecommunications Engineering, 140)

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks, ADHOCNETS 2014, held in Rhodes, Greece, in August 2014. The 16 regular and invited papers presented were carefully selected and reviewed from numerous submissions and cover a wide range of applications, such as mobile ad hoc networks, sensor networks, vehicular networks, intelligent transportation systems, wireless sensor networks security. Front Matter....Pages I-IX Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Interest-Based Forwarding for Satisfying User Preferences in Vehicular Networks....Pages 3-14 Traffic-Aware Access-Points Deployment Strategies for VANETS....Pages 15-26 A Social-Based Approach for Message Dissemination in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks....Pages 27-38 Intelligent Transportation Systems – Maybe, But Where Are My Agents?....Pages 39-50 On the Usefulness of Information Hiding Techniques for Wireless Sensor Networks Security....Pages 51-62 Evaluation of Malware Spreading in Wireless Multihop Networks with Churn....Pages 63-74 Security and Privacy-Preserving Mechanism for Aggregator Based Vehicle-to-Grid Network....Pages 75-85 An Improved TCP for Reduced Packet Delay in IEEE 802.11s-Based Smart Grid AMI Networks....Pages 86-97 A Cluster-Based and On-Demand Routing Algorithm for Large-Scale Multi-hop Wireless Sensor Networks....Pages 98-109 Social OLSR:....Pages 110-120 Improving Stability in QoS Routing for Ad-Hoc Networks....Pages 121-133 Content Centricity in Constrained Cellular-Assisted D2D Communications....Pages 134-145 Adaptive Transmit Power Adjustment Technique for ZigBee Network under Wi-Fi Interference....Pages 146-157 Channel Switching Cost-Aware Resource Allocation for Multi-hop Cognitive Radio Networks with a Single Transceiver....Pages 158-168 Connectivity Provisioning Using Cognitive Channel Selection in Vehicular Networks....Pages 169-179 Using Location Services to Autonomously Drive Flying Mobile Sinks in Wireless Sensor Networks....Pages 180-191 Validation and Evaluation of the Chosen Path Planning Algorithm for Localization of Nodes Using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in Disaster Scenarios....Pages 192-203 Efficient Algorithms for Characteristic Wireless Power Transfer Problems in Sensor Networks....Pages 204-215 Front Matter....Pages 217-217 A Proposal of the Gage-Free Safety Assessment Technique for the Steel Beam Structure Under Uncertain Loads and Support Conditions Using Motion Capture System....Pages 219-227 Structural Health Monitoring of Infrastructure Using Wireless Sensor System....Pages 228-234 Front Matter....Pages 217-217 Video Surveillance Applications Based on Ultra-Low Power Sensors....Pages 235-244 A Low-Overhead Localized Target Coverage Algorithm in Wireless Sensor Networks....Pages 245-254 Connectivity Restoration and Amelioration in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks: A Practical Solution....Pages 255-264 Back Matter....Pages 265-266