— Many distributed multiple access (MAC) protocols use an exponential backoff mechanism. In that mechanism, a node picks a random backoff time uniformly in an interval that doubl...
The need for communication privacy over public networks is of growing concern in today’s society. As a result, privacy-preserving authentication and key exchange protocols have ...
Giuseppe Ateniese, Jonathan Kirsch, Marina Blanton
Fast and effective distribution of software updates (a.k.a. patches) to millions of Internet users has evolved into a critical task over the last years. In this paper, we characte...
Christos Gkantsidis, Thomas Karagiannis, Milan Voj...
Available bandwidth estimation is useful for route selection in overlay networks, QoS verification, and traffic engineering. Recent years have seen a surge in interest in availab...
Abstract: Overlay Multicast networks in mobile ad-hoc environments have received much attention due to their increasing number of practical applications. Although overlay multicast...
Abhishek P. Patil, Yunhao Liu, Lionel M. Ni, Li Xi...