Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles
A service replication protocol in mobile ad hoc networks

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles

"A Service Replication Protocol in Mobile Ad hoc Networks"
by He Linna and Yin Wei
in the Proceedings of the IEEE 2007 International Symposium on Microwave, Antenna, Propagation, and EMC Technologies For Wireless Communications (MAPE 2007)

After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE's Publication Principles.

This paper contains significant portions of original text from the paper cited below. The original text was copied without attribution (including appropriate references to the original author(s) and/or paper title) and without permission.

Due to the nature of this violation, reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper, and future references should be made to the following article:

"A Pull-based Service Replication Protocol in Mobile Ad hoc Networks"
by Abdelouahid Derhab and Nadjib Badache
in the European Transactions on Telecommunications, vol 18, issue 1, January 2007

The mobility of nodes in ad hoc networks can lead to frequent network partitioning. This partitioning disconnects many nodes from a centralised server. Being aware of a future partitioning can help to provide a continuous service availability for all mobile nodes. In this paper, we propose a service replication protocol consisting of three distributed algorithms. This protocol predicts the occurrence of network partitioning, which allows to create service replicas in the future separate partitions. Our simulation results show that the proposed protocol guarantees service availability to all mobile nodes without incurring high cost.