— Hybrid Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols combine the strength of random and schedule based MAC schemes. From random MAC schemes, Hybrid MAC protocols borrow flexibility an...
Yuvraj. K. Rana, Bao Hua Liu, Alfandika Nyandoro, ...
Peer-to-peer computing and networking, an emerging model of communication and computation, has recently started to gain significant acceptance. This model not only enables client...
Software developers identify two main reasons why software systems are not made robust: performance and practicality. This work demonstrates the effectiveness of general technique...
Finding information in a peer-to-peer system currently requires either a costly and vulnerable central index, or flooding the network with queries. In this paper we introduce the...
The current Internet is based on a stateless (datagram) architecture. However, many recent proposals rely on the maintenance of state information within network routers, leading t...