— Advanced communication technologies enable strangers to work together on the same tasks or projects in virtual environments. Understanding the formation of taskoriented groups ...
— This paper investigates the problem of the formation of an uplink tree structure among the IEEE 802.16j network’s relay stations (RSs) and their serving base station (MR-BS)....
— Ad hoc network users are resource constrained: Before transmitting data, they have to take into account the energy expenditure involved. Even if a user is, in principle, willin...
— Data grids and its cost effective nature has taken on a new level of interest in recent years; amalgamation of different providers results in increased capacity as well as lowe...
— In future networks based on the Differentiated Services (DiffServ) architecture, users may be provided with the opportunity to choose their Assured Forwarding (AF) class. Users...