—This paper studies the performance of contention based medium access control (MAC) protocols. In particular, a simple and accurate technique for estimating the throughput of the...
Abstract. In open agent societies, communication protocols and strategies cannot be assumed to always match perfectly, because they are typically specified by different designers...
Ulrich Endriss, Wenjin Lu, Nicolas Maudet, Kostas ...
A mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) is a characteristized by multi-hop wireless links, in the absence of any cellular infrastructure, as well as frequent host mobility. Existing on-de...
Many techniques have been discovered to improve performance of bulk data transfer protocols which use large messages. This paper describes a technique that improves protocol perfo...
Due to the rapid growth of e-commerce technology, secure auction protocols have attracted much attention among researchers. The main reason for constructing sealed-bid auction prot...