In Internet-scale distributed systems, replicationbased scheme has been widely deployed to increase the availability and efficiency of services. Hence, consistency maintenance amo...
— Ad hoc networks have gained place in the research area recently. There are many researches regarding different topics related to such networks, such as routing, media access co...
Abstract—The Internet has witnessed a rapid growth in deployment of gossip-based protocol in many multicast applications. In a typical gossip-based protocol, each node independen...
Yun Tang, Nan Zhang, Yuanchun Shi, Shiqiang Yang, ...
The IEEE 802.11 based Wireless LANs (WLANs) have emerged as a viable technology for supporting real-time applications such as Voice over IP (VoIP). Even the Personal Digital Assist...
Recent studies on directional Media Access Control (MAC) protocols using smart antennas for wireless ad hoc networks have shown that directional MAC protocols outperform traditiona...