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标题：Guest Editorial
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作者：Zabir, Salahuddin Muhammad Salim ; Abawajy, Jemal H. ; Ahmed, Farid 等
期刊名称：Journal of Networks
印刷版ISSN：1796-2056
出版年度：2012
卷号：7
期号：12
页码：1909-1911
DOI：10.4304/jnw.7.12.1909-1911
语种：English
出版社：Academy Publisher
摘要：Networking of computing devices has been going through rapid evolution and thus continuing to be an ever expanding area of importance in recent years. New technologies, protocols, services and usage patterns have contributed to the major research interests in this area of computer science. The current special issue is an effort to bring forward some of these interesting developments that are being pursued by researchers at present in different parts of the globe. Our objective is to provide the readership with some insight into the latest innovations in computer networking through this. This Special Issue presents selected papers from the fourteenth conference of the series (ICCIT 2011) held during December 22-24, 2011 at the American International University, Bangladesh. The first ICCIT was held in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 1998. Since then the conference has grown to be one of the largest computer and IT related research conferences in the South Asian region, with participation of academics and researchers from many countries around the world. Since 2008 the proceedings of ICCIT has been included in IEEExplore. In 2011, a total of 353 full papers were submitted to the conference of which 126 were finally accepted after reviews conducted by an international program committee comprising 85 members from 14 countries. This was tantamount to an acceptance rate of 35%. From these 126 papers, nine highly ranked manuscripts were invited for this Special Issue. The authors were advised to enhance their papers significantly and submit them to undergo review for suitability of inclusion into this publication. Of those, six papers survived the review process and have been selected for inclusion in this Special Issue. These papers address issues concerning different domains of networks namely, mobile IPv6, battlefield application of wireless sensor networks, VoIP over wireless links, identity management and Statistical Disclosure Attack (SDA), cyclic prefix for AWGN and Rayleigh fading and Ant colony optimization for network routing. The paper titled “A Probabilistic Scheme for Reducing the Packet Loss in Mobile IPv6” deals with the packet loss issue by mobile nodes in an IPv6 network. The authors, Khan Md. Al-Farabi and Md. Humayun Kabir notice that with mobile IPv6 it is possible to ensure optimal path routing that eliminates the packet delay problems encountered with mobile IPv4. However, even with mobile IPv6, packet losses increase with the degree of mobility of the node. The authors propose a buffering scheme based on mobility prediction to overcome the issue. The authors Tamal Chakraborty, Iti Saha Misra and Salil K. Sanyal report their research findings on VoIP performance over WLAN and cognitive radio in the manuscript titled “Proactive QoS Enhancement Technique for Efficient VoIP Performance over Wireless LAN and Cognitive Radio Network”. The authors take into account the role of different codec parameters and propose an optimization algorithm to keep delay and latency within tolerable limits. Then, based on the results they obtain through their experimentations with the testbed and simulations, they come up with an algorithm that relies on codecs and active queues to ensure high throughput of VoIP traffic with enhanced QoS. The article titled “SDA-2H: Understanding the Value of Background Cover Against Statistical Disclosure” deals with issues related to Statistical Disclosure Attack (SDA). The authors Mahdi N. Al-Ameen, Charles Gatz and Matthew Wright examine the effect of background cover, i.e., the fake packets that the other users send on SDA. The authors extend SDA to a new scheme called SDA-2H (SDA with two heads) that takes background traffic into account and then evaluate the performance implications with respect to SDA. The authors Budhaditya Bhattacharyya, Iti Saha Misra and Salil Kumar Sanyal of the paper “Analysis and Optimization of Error Performance of a WiMAX Transceiver using Novel Adaptive Cyclic Prefix Strategy under AWGN and Rayleigh Fading Scenario” present a novel selection strategy for Adaptive Cyclic Prefix (ACP) on IEEE 802.16e WiMax Physical (PHY) layer. In addition, they propose a Modified ACP (MACP) algorithm for Rayleigh multipath fading scenario and evaluate the performance of the proposed schemes. The manuscript “Assurance of the Maximum Destruction in Battlefield using Cost-Effective Approximation Techniques” has been authored by Fariha Tasmin Jaigirdar and Mohammad Mahfuzul Islam. The authors consider battlefield application of wireless sensor networks. They propose two efficient approximation algorithms to launch an effective attack on enemy computing resources. The final title is “New Variants of Ant Colony Optimization for Network Routing”. It has been contributed by Debasmita Mukherjee and Sriyankar Acharyya. The paper proposes new variants of Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) techniques for network routing. The authors combine three different heuristics for selecting the next node with the three existing types of ACO based on pheromone deposit calculation. This results in nine variations. The authors also propose a new pheromone deposit calculation method that considers transmission time of each successfully transmitted packet. This leads to nine more variants. The authors compare the performance of all these variations of ACO techniques for network routing. Finally, the Guest Editors would like to express their sincere gratitude to the 10 reviewers besides the guest editors themselves (Kashif Satter, Md. Asifur Rahman, Abdelrahman Desoky, Mod Farhan Fudzee, Harulnizam Bin Mahdin, Md. Akbar Hossain, Iftekhar Ahmad, AKM Azad, Ashfaqur Rahman and Rafiul Hassan) from several countries (Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and USA) who have given immensely to this process. They have responded to the Guest Editors in the shortest possible time and dedicated their valuable time to ensure that the Special Issue contains high-quality papers with significant novelty and contributions.
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