Mobile Networks and Applications (2018) 24:1034-1045

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-018-1060-9

The Editor-in-Chief and the publisher have retracted this article. The article was submitted to be part of a guest-edited issue. An investigation by the publisher found a number of articles, including this one, with a number of concerns, including but not limited to compromised editorial handling and peer review process, inappropriate or irrelevant references or not being in scope of the journal or guest-edited issue. Based on the investigation's findings the Editor-in-Chief therefore no longer has confidence in the results and conclusions of this article.

Author G Ushadevi disagree with this retraction. Authors V. Vijayakumar, M. K. Priyan, R. Varatharajan, Gunasekaran Manogaran and Prathamesh Vijay Tarare have not responded to correspondence regarding this retraction.