Abstract—We study pricing games in single-layer relay networks where the source routes traffic selfishly according to the strategic bids made by relays. Each relay’s bid incl...
Abstract— According to the cognitive radio paradigm, a terminal or subsystem will opportunistically select a frequency band for data transmission. Because the spectrum is shared,...
“Radio Frequency Identification” (RFID) and the related EPC standards promise to enable an automatic collection of supply chain data for optimization purposes. While extensive...
In hierarchical distributed systems, shared data access can be controlled by assigning user groups single cryptographic keys that allow high level users derive low level keys, but...
Since the birth of computational and data grids, many middlewares have been developed and deployed. Currently, they are used in a multitude of isolated e-Infrastructures and a hot...