It is well known that the presence of nodes using a low data transmit rate has a disproportionate impact on the performance of an IEEE 802.11 WLAN. ORP is an opportunistic relay pr...
Laura Marie Feeney, Bilge Cetin, Daniel Hollos, Ma...
Abstract— Natural or man-made disasters can partition networks while threatening human lives. Because conventional Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANETs) cannot route messages across pa...
The increased pervasiveness of mobile devices like cell phones, PDAs, and laptops draws attention to the need for coordination among these networked devices. The very nature of the...
The growing success of wireless ad hoc networks and portable hardware devices presents many interesting problems to software engineers. Particular, coordination is a challenging t...
Marco Tulio de Oliveira Valente, Fernando Magno Qu...
The idle computers on a local area, campus area, or even wide area network represent a significant computational resource--one that is, however, also unreliable, heterogeneous, an...