The Journal of Supercomputing

Over the past years, researchers drew their attention to propose optoelectronic architectures, including optical transpose interconnection system (OTIS) networks. On the other hand, there are limited attempts devoted to design parallel algorithms for ...

The scope of this work involves the integration of high-speed parallel computation with interactive, 3D visualization of the lattice-Boltzmann-based immersed boundary method for fluid---structure interaction. An NVIDIA Tesla K40c is used for the ...

Recently, Tewari and Gupta proposed a ultra-lightweight mutual authentication protocol in IoT environments for RFID tags. Their protocol aims to provide secure communication with least cost in both storage and computation. Unfortunately, in this paper, ...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a new technology, which enables objects to exchange data via the internet network. One part of the infrastructure of IoT is Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). One way to fortify the system and prevent it against an ...

Recent developments in unmanned aerial systems (UAS) provide new opportunities in remote sensing application. In contrast to satellite and conventional (manned) aerial tasks, UAS flights can be operated in a very short period of time. UAS can also be ...

In this study, we propose a news recommendation system architecture using a main memory database (DB) and Mahout. The user's news preference rate is calculated automatically based on the time the user spends reading news items and their length. While ...

Cloud computing is an on-demand Internet-based computing service, where computing resources are shared among the users via the Internet and its usage based on the pay-for-use model. Virtualization of computing resources allows the system to use the ...

As flash memory becomes popular, flash memory-based solid-state drive (SSD) has been the major storage device. SSD has numerous merits such as high I/O speed, low energy consumption, strong shock resistance and small form factor. Meanwhile, some ...

Recently, graphical processing units (GPUs) have found a prominent role in general-purpose applications. Specifically, in parallel processing applications where a considerable number of tasks should be processed while meeting specific design ...

Durable P2P data storage is a research focus in recent years. It aims at providing data for requesters anytime and anywhere. Considering the fact that any peer could join and leave P2P network freely and randomly, how to improve the data availability is ...

Content-centric network (CCN) has been considered for VANETs, due to its scalability, flexibility and security. In this paper, an extended CCN architecture is proposed to reduce critical data access time in vehicular content centric networks by storing ...

Virtualized server systems, as a major underlying element in high-performance computing systems, require further studies on many aspects of dependability. Among the significant factors, the availability measures are crucial to deliver high-quality ...

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), nodes have limited energy and cannot be recharged. In order to tackle this problem, clustering methods are employed to optimize energy consumption, gather data and also enhance the effective lifetime of the network. ...

Given a natural number e, an addition chain for e is a finite sequence of numbers having the following properties: (1) the first number is one, (2) every element is the sum of two earlier elements, and (3) the given number occurs at the end of the ...

Data center network (DCN) is the core of cloud computing and accounts for 40% energy spend when compared to cooling system, power distribution and conversion of the whole data center (DC) facility. It is essential to reduce the energy consumption of DCN ...

The rapid growth of todays IT demands reflects the increased use of cloud data centers. Reducing computational power consumption in cloud data center is one of the challenging research issues in the current era. Power consumption is directly ...

Wireless sensor network (WSN) has gained an enormous attention of researchers with its dynamic applications. Energy is considered as a scarce and the most vital resource in WSNs. In clustering-based approach, there is huge energy consumption while ...

Unmanaged resource contention in cloud computing environments can cause problems such as performance interference, service quality degradation, and consequently service agreements violation. Performance isolation is an indispensable remedy solution for ...

Super-resolution (SR) is a technique that reconstructs high-resolution images using the information present in low-resolution images. Due to their potentials of being used in wide range of image and video applications, various SR algorithms have been ...

Energy-efficient scheduling of stochastic tasks is considered in this paper. The main characteristic of a stochastic task is that its execution time is a random variable whose actual value is not known in advance, but only its probability distribution. ...

In recent years, RFID (radio-frequency identification) systems are widely used in many applications. One of the most important applications for this technology is the Internet of things (IoT). Therefore, researchers have proposed several authentication ...