...Muniraju Naidu Vadlamudi; Asdaque Hussain M.D. Purpose A wireless body area network (WBAN) plays a crucial role in the health-care domain. With the emergence of technologies like the internet of things, there is increased usage of WBAN for providing quality health services. With wearable devices...

... of data are generated with the development of next-generation information technologies such as cryptocurrency, internet of things and big data. To execute such applications, it is needed to design an efficient scheduling algorithm that considers the quality of service parameters like utilization, makespan...

... in WSNs for providing quality of service (QoS), the swarm intelligence principles are continuously being implemented. Heterogeneity Routing Quality of service Swarm intelligence Mobile Ad hoc network Wireless sensor network The mobile ad hoc network (MANET) forms a temporary...

... that the suggested scheme yields enhanced results as compared to the schemes already proposed in the literature. Adnan Mahmood can be contacted at: 14020004@siswa.unimas.my © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Quality of service Handover failure probability Received signal strength Vertical...

... of providing as high as possible a quality of service (QoS) for mobile and multimedia applications. Design/methodology/approach The paper's general vision is to define how to use the general IBM Autonomic framework for the design of a new and generic autonomous transport layer aimed at fitting as best...

..., the leading semantic‐based routing algorithm which reconfigures the routing tree at fixed periods. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Sensor networks Pervasive environment Quality of service Multi‐criteria J. PERVASIVE COMPUT. & COMM., VOL. 1 NO. 4, DECEMBER 2005. c TROUBADOR PUBLISHING...