Networks, Security and Soft Computing reports current research in Networks and Distributed Systems including WSN and MANETs, design of various QoS aware routing protocols followed by the issue of providing high security incurring low computational cost. It further includes probable solutions for authentication in MANETs and for detection of DDoS attack. Significant contributions in three major research areas within Data Mining-clustering, association rule mining and dimensionality reduction, Innovative methods for spatial clustering using density based and fuzzy approach are reported. The book also includes a robust association rule mining technique using multi-objective GA for high dimensional classification problems. Topics from NLP, Evolutionary Computation, Image Processing and other emerging areas within Soft Computing, Methods for classification of words and recognition of hand-written characters for a couple of Indian languages including an approach to extract coherent genomic patterns in eubacterial genomes are part of this volume.

Foreword / Preface / Acknowledgement / Section I: Networks – A Low Latency and Energy Efficient MAC for Wireless Sensor Networks / QoS-Aware MAC protocols in MANETs / QoS Aware Routing Protocols for Large Scale Wireless Sensor Network / Prototype of a Low Power UWB Transmitter in Sensor Networks / Improving Performance of SCTP in Presence of High Traffic Load and Link-Level Errors / Quality of Service Routing in MANETs / Performance Analysis of SOAP over DCOM / Recovery in Mobile Computing Environment: Challenges and Solutions / Section II: Network Security - Security Issues in Wireless Sensor Networks / CAMAN : A CA Based Authentication Scheme for MANET / A Secure Scheme for Detecting TCP SYN Attacks / Securing Large Scale Wireless Sensor Network: Challenges and Requisites / Defense against DDoS by using IP Spoof Detection and Push Forward Mechanism / Section III: Soft Computing - I – Frequent Mining – A Selective Survey / FP-growth with Vertical Partitions / gbest Multi-Swarm for Multi-objective Rule Mining / Mining for Association Rules using Multi-objective Genetic Algorithms: A Partition Based Approach / A Survey of Techniques and Trends in clustering for Data Mining / Using Clustering Technique in Mining Quantitative Association Rule / SCUDD: Spatial Clustering using Density Difference / A Faster Clustering Technique for Intrinsic Cluster Detection over Spatial Datasets / Dimensionality Reduction using Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm / Section IV: Soft Computing - II – Genetic Algorithm in Effective Rule Mining / Data Clustering: An Overview from Soft Computing Perspective / Attribute Based Hierarchical Clustering Algorithm / N-gram-based Statistical Analysis of Manipuri Language / A Fresh Proposal for Design of a High Performance Query Answering Search Engine / A Document Clustering Algorithm using a Fuzzy Approach / Recognition of Off-line Handwritten Digits of Manipuri Script using Artificial Neural Networks / Consolidating Affix Evidence for Classification of Words / Detection of Cold Lesions in SPECT Images of Cardiac / New Approach to Calculate Resonant Frequency of Microstrip Patch Antenna using Particle Swarm Optimization Technique / Evolutionary Genomics: A Computational Approach to Find Out Common Genomic Patterns in Eubacterial Genomes / Poster Presentations – Improvement in the Performance of OFDM using Neural Networks / A New Sorting Algorithm / An Alternate Failure Tolerant Model for Multipath Routing of Sensor Network / Program Committee.

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