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EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Enabling Wireless Technologies for Green Pervasive Computing Guest Editors: Naveen Chilamkurti, Sherali Zeadally, Abbas Jamalipour, and Sajal k. Das Enabling Wireless Technologies for Green Pervasive Computing EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Enabling Wireless Technologies for Green Pervasive Computing Guest Editors: Naveen Chilamkurti, Sherali Zeadally, Abbas Jamalipour, and Sajal k. Das Copyright © 2009 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved. This is a special issue published in volume 2009 of “EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking.” All articles are open access articles distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Editor-in-Chief Luc Vandendorpe, Universite´ catholique de Louvain, Belgium Associate Editors Thushara Abhayapala, Australia Zabih F. Ghassemlooy, UK Marc Moonen, Belgium Mohamed H. Ahmed, Canada Christian Hartmann, Germany Eric Moulines, France Farid Ahmed, USA Stefan Kaiser, Germany Sayandev Mukherjee, USA Carles Anton-Haro,´ Spain George K. Karagiannidis, Greece Kameswara Rao Namuduri, USA Anthony C. Boucouvalas, Greece Chi Chung Ko, Singapore AmiyaNayak,Canada Lin Cai, Canada Visa Koivunen, Finland Claude Oestges, Belgium Yuh-Shyan Chen, Taiwan Nicholas Kolokotronis, Greece A. Pandharipande, The Netherlands Pascal Chevalier, France Richard Kozick, USA Phillip Regalia, France Chia-Chin Chong, South Korea Sangarapillai Lambotharan, UK A. Lee Swindlehurst, USA Soura Dasgupta, USA Vincent Lau, Hong Kong George S. Tombras, Greece Ibrahim Develi, Turkey DavidI.Laurenson,UK Lang Tong, USA Petar M. Djuric,´ USA Tho Le-Ngoc, Canada Athanasios Vasilakos, Greece Mischa Dohler, Spain Wei Li, USA Ping Wang, Canada Abraham O. Fapojuwo, Canada Tongtong Li, USA Weidong Xiang, USA Michael Gastpar, USA Zhiqiang Liu, USA Xueshi Yang, USA Alex B. Gershman, Germany Steve McLaughlin, UK Lawrence Yeung, Hong Kong Wolfgang Gerstacker, Germany Sudip Misra, India Dongmei Zhao, Canada David Gesbert, France Ingrid Moerman, Belgium Weihua Zhuang, Canada Contents Enabling Wireless Technologies for Green Pervasive Computing, Naveen Chilamkurti, Sherali Zeadally, Abbas Jamalipour, and Sajal K. Das Volume 2009, Article ID 230912, 2 pages A Reputation System for Traffic Safety Event on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks, Nai-Wei Lo and Hsiao-Chien Tsai Volume 2009, Article ID 125348, 10 pages A Cross-Layer Routing Design for Multi-Interface Wireless Mesh Networks, Tzu-Chieh Tsai and Sung-Ta Tsai Volume 2009, Article ID 208524, 8 pages Intelligent Decision-Making System with Green Pervasive Computing for Renewable Energy Business in Electricity Markets on Smart Grid, Dong-Joo Kang, Jong Hyuk Park, and Sang-Soo Yeo Volume 2009, Article ID 247483, 12 pages GRAdient Cost Establishment (GRACE) for an Energy-Aware Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks, Noor M. Khan, Zubair Khalid, and Ghufran Ahmed Volume 2009, Article ID 275694, 15 pages Achievable Throughput-Based MAC Layer Handoff in IEEE 802.11 Wireless Local Area Networks, SungHoon Seo, JooSeok Song, Haitao Wu, and Yongguang Zhang Volume 2009, Article ID 467315, 15 pages On PHY and MAC Performance in Body Sensor Networks, Sana Ullah, Henry Higgins, S. M. Riazul Islam, Pervez Khan, and Kyung Sup Kwak Volume 2009, Article ID 479512, 7 pages Problem Solving of Low Data Throughput on Mobile Devices by Artefacts Prebuffering, Ondrej Krejcar Volume 2009, Article ID 802523, 8 pages A Potential Transmitter Architecture for Future Generation Green Wireless Base Station, Vandana Bassoo, Kevin Tom, A. K. Mustafa, Ellie Cijvat, Henrik Sjoland, and Mike Faulkner Volume 2009, Article ID 821846, 8 pages Modeling Energy Consumption of Dual-Hop Relay Based MAC Protocols in Ad Hoc Networks, Rizwan Ahmad, Fu-Chun Zheng, and Micheal Drieberg Volume 2009, Article ID 968323, 11 pages Hindawi Publishing Corporation EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Volume 2009, Article ID 230912, 2 pages doi:10.1155/2009/230912 Editorial Enabling Wireless Technologies for Green Pervasive Computing Naveen Chilamkurti,1 Sherali Zeadally,2 Abbas Jamalipour,3 and Sajal K. Das4 1 Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria 3086, Australia 2 Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of the District of Columbia 4200, Connecticut Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20008, USA 3 School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia 4 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University Texas at Arlington, P.O. Box 19015, Arlington, TX 76019, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Naveen Chilamkurti, [email protected] Received 31 December 2009; Accepted 31 December 2009 Copyright © 2009 Naveen Chilamkurti et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Wireless pervasive computing is a rapidly growing area that In “A reputation system for trafficsafetyeventon has attracted significant attention in recent years because vehicular ad hoc networks”, Lo and Tsai propose an event- of its ubiquitous deployment throughout our society. It based reputation system that avoids the dissemination of is widely accepted that pervasive computing is having a false traffic warning messages. The major benefits of such tremendous impact on the way we live our life, conduct a system include improving traffic safety and reducing businesses, communicate with each other, and many other driving time because in the later case false warning messages areas of life. Most of the technology enablers that make lead to unnecessary driving and increases the amount of wireless pervasive computing feasible have been deployed fuel consumed. In “A cross-layer routing design for multi- with little consideration to the energy they consume during interface wireless mesh networks”, Tsai and Tsai address their operations. A recent study [1] found that if the current the issue of transmission power control and routing path cost of power consumption continues to increase it may selection for wireless mesh networks. They propose a cross- reachtoapointwhereitwillcostmoremoneytopower layer routing protocol called M2iRi2 that takes into account than to purchase information technology equipment such both the transmission power and intra/interflow interference as servers. It is therefore imperative that new standards, as routing metrics to improve network throughput and end- protocols, and approaches are explored to minimize power to-end delay. consumption of various components (such as network inter- There has been a growing interest in renewable energy face cards, switches, routers, wireless/mobile devices, laptops, sources recently. Various types of renewable energy gen- and desktops) that constitute the IT infrastructure [2]. To erators are being designed and deployed to maximize the address the challenges of efficient energy consumption for production of renewable energy from natural sources. In wireless pervasive computing, this special issue focuses not “Intelligent decision-making system for renewable energy only on the area of green pervasive computing but also on business in e-commerce based electricity markets on smart- emerging technologies that are used to support sustainability grid”, Kang et al. propose an Intelligent Decision Making and minimize carbon emission. This issue highlights some System (IDMS) that is designed to address a major deficiency of the latest recent research results achieved for the various of current renewable generators namely, their sporadic technologies (such as wireless sensor networks, Smart Grid, output which is often difficult to predict and control. IDMS wireless local area networks, etc) currently being deployed can be deployed to improve operation of intelligent power and used in wireless pervasive computing and presents systemssuchasSmartGrids. innovative solutions that can lead to a more sustainable, In their paper, “GRAdient cost establishment (GRACE) greener computing environment. for an energy-aware routing in wireless sensor networks”, 2 EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Khan et al. investigate the design of a dynamic energy-aware compatible with existing networks. In “Modeling energy routing protocol for wireless sensor networks. The proposed consumption of dual-hop relay based MAC protocol n routing protocol requires low power and communication ad hoc networks”, Ahmad et al. present an analytical bandwidth under dynamic network conditions and prolongs energy consumption model for dual-hop relay based MAC the lifetime of the underlying network. Their simulation protocols. This model can predict energy consumption in results demonstrate that the proposed routing protocol ideal environment and with transmission errors. It is shown achieves the desired performance objectives. that using a relay dual-hop model, a better throughput and In “Achievable throughput-based MAC layer handoff in energy efficiency are achieved. IEEE 802.11 wireless local area networks”, Seo et al. propose We would like to take this opportunity to thank the a Media Access Control (MAC) layer handoff mechanism Editor-in-Chief of EURASIP Journal on Wireless Commu- for IEEE 802.11 wireless local area networks