— In modern wireless networks the functions included into layer II have to deal with complex problems, such as security and access control, that were previously demanded to upper...
User authentication, which refers to the process of verifying the identity of a user, is becoming an important security requirement in various embedded systems. While conventional...
—Jamming attacks have become prevalent during the last few years, due to the shared nature and the open access to the wireless medium. Finding the location of a jamming device is...
The objective of query optimizers is to select a good execution plan for a given query. In a distributed system, it is crucial for a query optimizer to have effective remote cost e...
platform and a suite of abstract components with which new developments in different application domains can be engineered with minimal effort [1]p.16. Generic platforms, or refere...