This paper deals with the problem of scheduling aperiodic groups of tasks in distributed systems. It proposes two contributions, namely: i) a distributed scheduling algorithm to b...
Paolo Bizzarri, Andrea Bondavalli, Felicita Di Gia...
A number of authentication protocols have been proposed recently, where at least some part of the authentication is performed during a phase, lasting $n$ rounds, with no error corr...
Abstract Queueing Petri nets are a powerful formalism that can be exploited for modeling distributed systems and analyzing their performance and scalability. By combining the model...
In this paper, we consider a packet scheduler exploiting multiuser diversity in a wireless network with AMC (Adaptive Modulation and Coding), and propose a packet level performance...
Network wide broadcasting in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks provides important control and route establishment functionality for a number of unicast and multicast protocols. Considering i...