Editorial

摘要

Recently, rapid technological advancements and changes in the various networking technologies such as 4G/5G systems, wireless sensor network, and vehicular network have been achieved. With the help of these technologies, we can establish the ubiquitous convergence networks, which will bring convenience in our lives to us. One of the typical examples for the next generation ubiquitous convergence networks is cloud computing, which enables convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. Although these technologies will introduce various convenience services and applications, the convergence issues (i.e., energy-efficient network protocol and location privacy in heterogeneous networks) also are occurred.