The rise of GPS and broadband-speed wireless devices has led to tremendous excitement about a range of applications broadly characterized as "location based services". Cu...
Abstract— Although direct reciprocity (Tit-for-Tat) contribution systems have been successful in reducing freeloading in peerto-peer overlays, it has been shown that, unless the ...
Raul Landa, David Griffin, Richard G. Clegg, Eleni...
— We present the unfairness problem between the uplink and the downlink flows in the IEEE 802.11e infrastructure Basic Service Set (BSS) when the default settings of the Enhance...
— Virtual Private Networks (VPN) provide a secure and reliable communication between customer sites over a shared network. Two models were proposed for the service provisioning i...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems are currently used in a variety of applications. File sharing applications and ad hoc networking have fueled the usage of these systems. P2P systems gen...