Similarity search in web networks, aiming to find entities similar to the given entity, is one of the core tasks in network analysis.
The operational tasks in network management can be divided into three stages [11]: an initial measurement activity, a decision-making process, and lastly, a phase in which one or more actions are applied to the network.
A packet classification task incorporated in network firewalls to recognize and sift threats or unauthorized network accesses is accomplished by checking incoming packet headers against a pre-defined filter set.
"Semantics-Based Optimization Across Uncoordinated Tasks in Networked Embedded Systems".
Logistics distribution center location is an important task in the network optimization of a logistics system.
The experimental results show that transmission speed improves 30% than Trickle, transmission volume reduced to 42% of the original volume, updating task in 5*5 network topology can be executed 1.79 times and power consumption reduced to 30%.
Expert or influential people identification is an important task in social network positional analysis [56].
A basic task in sensor networks is to interactively gather data from a subset of nodes in the network.
Measurement of Quality of Service (QoS) parameters is a relevant task in communication networks.
The envisaged applications, as well as some inherent VANET characteristics make data dissemination an essential service and a challenging task in these networks.
