— The current access point (AP) association schemes in wireless LANs, such as IEEE 802.11, cause an unbalanced load which reduces the performance of both the entire network and i...
Coin flipping is a cryptographic primitive in which two spatially separated players, who in principle do not trust each other, wish to establish a common random bit. If we limit ...
—As mobile nodes roam in a wireless network, they continuously associate with different access points and perform handoff operations. However, these handoffs can potentially incu...
Minkyong Kim, Zhen Liu, Srinivasan Parthasarathy 0...
—A new and simple MAC protocol is proposed. Each node transmits a burst with length sampled from a geometric distribution with parameter q followed by a carrier sense slot. A nod...
Greger Wikstrand, Thomas Nilsson, Mark S. Doughert...
—IP network mobility is emerging as a major paradigm for providing continuous Internet access while a set of users are on the move in a transportation system. The intense interes...
Xin Hu, Erran L. Li, Zhuoqing Morley Mao, Yang Ric...