In this paper, the IEEE 802.11 multiple access control protocol was modified for use in multi-channel, multi-hop ad hoc network, through the use of a new channel-status indicator....
Jiandong Li, Zygmunt J. Haas, Min Sheng, Yanhui Ch...
—This paper presents a middleware platform for the provision of services in disconnected MANETs, focusing on service invocation. This middleware exploits content-based communicat...
In a pervasive computing environment, the devices are embedded in the physical world, providing services and interconnected by a communication network. Composition of these servic...
Joanna Izabela Siebert, Jiannong Cao, Long Cheng, ...
Predictable network computing still involves a number of open questions. One such question is providing a controlled amount of CPU time to distributed processes. Mechanisms to cont...
Abstract— We explore network design principles for nextgeneration all-optical wide-area networks, employing light-trail technology. Light-trail [1] is a light-wave circuit that a...
Srivatsan Balasubramanian, Ahmed E. Kamal, Arun K....