Mobile computing based upon wireless technology as the interconnect and PDAs, Web-enabled cell phones etc. as the end devices provide a rich infrastructure for anywhere, anytime i...
— We analyze the performance of the IEEE 802.11b wireless local area networks. We have observed that when some mobile hosts use a lower bit rate than the others, the performance ...
Gilles Berger-Sabbatel, Franck Rousseau, Martin He...
Distributed storage systems provide data availability by means of redundancy. To assure a given level of availability in case of node failures, new redundant fragments need to be ...
Alessandro Duminuco, Ernst Biersack, Taoufik En-Na...
A link is an unreliable FIFO channel. As we mentioned earlier, it is an abstraction of a point-topoint wire or of a simple broadcast LAN. It is unreliable because noise or other ph...
We consider a wireless collision channel, shared by a finite number of mobile users who transmit to a common base station using a random access protocol. Mobiles are selfoptimizin...