Using directional antennas in wireless ad hoc networks can significantly improve network performance. However, the deafness problem greatly limits the network performance. This pa...
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This paper introduces a lightweight, scalable and accurate framework, called Meridian, for performing node selection based on network location. The framework consists of an overla...
We describe a novel approach for building a secure and fault tolerant data storage service in collaborative work environments, which uses perfect secret sharing schemes to store d...
Semantic Web Information Systems (SWIS) are Web Information Systems that use Semantic Web technologies. Hera is a modeldriven design methodology for SWIS. In Hera, models are repr...