Since its inception, the Internet has served as a virtual meeting place for people sharing common interests. These electronically supported interest groups are nowadays called Vir...
The sensing systems that monitor physical environments rely on communication infrastructures (wired or wireless) to collect data from the sensors embedded in the environment. Howe...
—Backoff misbehavior, in which a wireless node deliberately manipulates its backoff time, can induce significant network problems, such as severe unfairness and denial-of-servic...
Abstract. Recently, the distributed real-time services are developing in distributed object computing environments in a way that can support a new programming paradigm of the distr...
Su-Chong Joo, Sung-Kwun Oh, Chang-Sun Shin, Jun Hw...
A fundamental issue in the design of a wireless sensor network is to devise mechanisms to make efficient use of its energy, and thus, extend its lifetime. Due to the paramount imp...
Raquel A. F. Mini, Antonio Alfredo Ferreira Lourei...