Editorial

Advanced processing technologies and applications for mobilecommunication systems

The current state of mobile communication systems has advanced to the point that now they containnovel processing technologies and have applications that give them capabilities and power similarto traditional desktop computers, along with global access to data via the Internet. It has been arguedthat this is largely a result of the emphasis on pervasive computing along with the requirements forubiquitous network access. In addition, recent mobile communication systems such as Smartphone,tablet, and mobile gadgets represent an advanced communication environment featuring daily lifeobjects that continuously involve and are focused on final non-expert users. Most researchers predictthat these smart devices and platforms’ communication systems, as they continue to be developed, willprovide an avenue for many new types of services. This trend of rapid growth of smart communicationsystems throughout the past few years has contributed to an increase of pervasive computing and hasprovided a variety of convergence services. The goal of this issue is to bring together state-of-the-artresearch that describes original and unpublished work addressing ‘Advanced Processing Technologiesand Applications for Mobile Communication Systems’. It will reflect the state of the art of the varioussmart devices’ communication, network, applications and services, platforms, security of newprocessing techniques in engineering, science, and other disciplines related to the Smartphoneapplications and services for pervasive computing and the Internet of Things.This special issue is aimed to solicit research results on the following topics of interest, but

not limited:

(1) Smart Device Applications and Mobile Network Services,(2) Device & Platform Communication and Connectivity,(3) Efficiency and Performance of Smart, Wireless, Mobile Systems,(4) Smart Appliance, Wireless, Mobile Network and Systems,(5) Wearable, WSN, WPAN, RFID Communication Systems,(6) Smart Grid/Home and Building Automation Systems,(7) Multimedia security, authentication, access control,(8) Recent Advance Processing technologies for Communication systems,(9) User-friendly interface and User Experience, and

(10) Future Mobile Communication Challenges and Trends.

We received many manuscripts. Each manuscript was blindly reviewed by at least threereviewers consisting of guest editors and external reviewers. After the review process, eightmanuscripts were finally selected for this Special Issue. The selected manuscripts are as follows:

(1) A Dynamic Control Middleware for Cyber Physical System through an IPv6-based GlobalNetwork, Sang Oh Park, Tae Hoon Do, Young-Sik Jeong, Sung Jo Kim

(2) Performance Improvement of Hybrid Tag Anti-Collision Protocol for RFID Systems, SoocheolKim, Jung-Sik Cho, Sung Kwon Kim

(3) Adaptive Anomaly Control for Alleviating the Exclusive Channel Occupation in WirelessNetworks, Hyunhee Park, Taeshik Shon, Seunghyun Park, Eui-Jik Kim

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(4) Intelligent Route Generation: Discovery and Search of Correlation between Shared Resources,Neil Y. Yen

(5) LZCode Based Compression Method for Effectively Using the Memory of Embedded Devices,Kangseok Kim, Hyunchul Lee, Okkyung Choi, Hongjin Yeh

(6) Reliability and Security of Arbiter Based Physical Unclonable Function Circuits, ZaurTariguliyev, Siddika Ors

(7) Nearest Surrounder Searching in Mobile Computing Environment, Jaehwa Chung, Hong JunJang, Kyung-Ho Jung, Soon-Young Jung

(8) LTE and WiMAX: Performance and Complexity Comparison for Possible Channel EstimationTechniques, H. Hafez, Y. A. Fahmy, M. M. Khairy

Finally, we would like to thank all authors for their contributions to this special issue. We alsoextend our thanks to the following external reviewers for their excellent job in reviewing themanuscripts: Seungmin Rho, Yong Wang, Hyuk Jun Kwon, Hong Joo Lee, Kiyong Jeon, WennyRahayu, Diego Arroyuelo, Rabia Iqbal, Chang Hong Lin, Yuseop Lee, Yongpyo Hong, DelphineChristin, Panagiotis Rizomiliotis, Felipe Gil-Castiñeira, Xiaolin Qin, Ridha Soua, Fengyu Liu,Sehau Wang, Soon-Ju Kan, Dario Bonino, Ching-Nung Yang, Lei Kang, Simon Kuo, Yang SunLee, Changhoon Lee, Jongsung Kim, and Hangbae Chang.

Dr Sang-Soo Yeo received his master’s degree and PhD degree in Computer Science & Engi-neering from Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea. He was a visiting scholar at Kyushu Uni-versity, Japan. He worked for BTWorks, Inc. as a General Manager and at the same time wasan adjunct professor at Hannam University. He is currently a professor at the Division of Com-puter Engineering, Mokwon University, Korea. He is Vice President of Future Technology Re-search Association International (FTRA) and Vice President of Korea Information TechnologyConvergence Society. Dr Yeo’s research interests include Security, Ubiquitous Computing,Multimedia Service, Ubiquitous Computing, Embedded System, and Bioinformatics. He is amember of the KIPS, KIISE, KICS, KIISC, KMS, KDAS, KONI, KIMICS, KIIT, IEEE, andIEEE CS.

Shiuh-Jeng Wang (http://hera.im.cpu.edu.tw/sjw_2006/) received his PhD degree in ElectricalEngineering at National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan in 1996. Dr Wang was a visitingscholar of Computer Science Department at Florida State University (FSU), USA, in 2002and 2004. He also was a visiting scholar of Department of Computer and Information Scienceand Engineering at University of Florida (UF) in 2004, 2005, 2010, and 2011.He served theeditor-in-chief of the journal of Communications of the CCISA in Taiwan from 2000 to 2006.He has been elected as the Deputy President of Chinese Cryptology and Information SecurityAssociation (CCISA, AT http://www.ccisa.org.tw/) since 2012. Dr Wang academically touredthe CyLab with School of Computer Science in Carnegie Mellon University, USA, in 2007for international project collaboration inspection. He is also the author of ten books (in Chineseversions): Information Security, Cryptography and Network Security, State of the Art onInternet Security and Digital Forensics, Eyes of Privacy – Information Security and ComputerForensics, Information Multimedia Security, Computer Forensics and Digital Evidence, Com-puter Forensics and Security Systems, and Computer and Network Security in Practice, DigitalImage Processing and Applications, The Security in Computer, Network and Mobile-Service inPractice – Applying to High-tech Society, published in 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, and 2012,respectively.Professor Wang has published over 300 papers in referred journals/conference/proceedings/technique reports so far. He is a full professor and a member of the IEEE, ACM.He served many academic and reputable journals in the position of guest editors. He was the leadeditor – IEEE J-SAC, 2011(IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications), AT http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/sac/index.html. Professor Wang is currently with the editor-in-chiefof Journal at JITAS AT http://jitas.im.cpu.edu.tw/.

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Dr Rodrigo Roman (roman@lcc.uma.es) is a security researcher working at the Institute forInfocomm Research (I2R) in Singapore. He also collaborates with the NICS security lab at theUniversity of Malaga, Spain, where he obtained his PhD in Computer Science in 2008. Fromhis point of view, security should not be an obscure concept that is difficult to apply but a simpleidea that can be easily explained and deployed. Consequently, Dr Roman’s research is mainlyfocused on providing useful and relevant security solutions that fulfill the requirements of bothapplications and its users. At present, his research interests are mainly focused on the secureintegration of sensor networks with other infrastructures, such as critical infrastructures, cloudenvironments, and the Internet of Things. Although he is a young researcher, Dr Roman is activelyinvolved in the academic community, having published over 25 referred papers at interna-tional conferences and journals, having served over 30 times in international conference com-mittees as member of the program committee, having organized and chaired severalworkshops and conferences (e.g. ESORICS, ACNS, and SecIoT), and having been a regularreviewer for over five international journals. Besides, he has participated in various Spanish(ARES and SPRINT) and international (Feel@Home, SMEPP) research projects related tonetwork and sensor networks security.

Sang Soo Yeo

Mokwon University, Korea

Shiuh-Jeng Wang

Central Police University, Taiwan

Rodrigo Román Castro

University of Malaga, Spain

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