Retraction Note: Energy efficient topology management scheme based on clustering technique for software defined wireless sensor network (Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, (2019), 12, 2, (348-356), 10.1007/s12083-017-0607-z)

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. The authors disagree with this retraction.