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In mobile ad hoc network (MANET), routing has been the main issue because its high mobility and maintaining its routing structures are important requirements. Geographical routing mostly relies on real time location information, however, there exist lags in correctness of location information, and malicious nodes can cause troubles in accurate location tracking in the network. In order to ensure the correctness of location update information, in this paper, we propose a novel design based on a cluster based geographic routing (CBGR) formulation (Muthusenthil and Murugavalli, 2014), wherein we add a position verification technique based on a direct symmetry test (DST) to securely verify the location claims. We further introduce a new noise threshold parameter in the CBGR formulation to evaluate the correctness of location information based on a DST. Then a location based encryption scheme is employed to protect the estimated location against the eavesdropping attacks. With our simulation results, we show that the proposed location verification technique for CBGR (LVT-CBGR) network enhances the network security and performs better compared to other protocols in terms of performance metrics. The experimental outcomes illustrate the fact that our approach is well-geared to scale down the overall network expenditure.

Medical X-ray images are prevalent and are the least expensive diagnostic imaging method available widely. The handling of film processing and digitization introduces noise in X-ray images and suppressing such noise is an important step in medical image analysis. In this work, we use an adaptive total variation regularization method for removing quantum noise from X-ray images. By utilizing an edge indicator measure along with the well-known edge preserving total variation regularization, we obtain noise removal without losing salient features. Experimental results on different X-ray images indicate the promise of our approach. Synthetic examples are given to compare the performance of our scheme with traditional total variation and anisotropic diffusion methods from the literature. Overall, our proposed approach obtains better results in terms of visual appearance as well as with respect to different error metrics and structural similarity.