Random contentions occur in optical burst-switched (OBS) networks because of one-way signaling and lack of optical buffers. These contentions can occur at low loads and are not nec...
In Cooperative Automatic Repeat reQuest (C-ARQ) protocols, one or more nodes can act as relays, collaborating in the frame retransmission process between a sender and a destination...
- In multi-access network environments, interworking technologies has become a very important issue these days. This interworking would deliver optimized services to users and also...
Security has become a major concern for many realworld applications for wireless sensor networks (WSN). In this domain, many security solutions have been proposed. Usually, all th...
The emergence of mobile ad hoc sensor networks has brought new challenges to traditional network design. This paper focuses on the study at the application layer. In specific, it...