The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is an application-layer protocol commonly used in VoIP for communication over the Internet. In this paper we describe a method to assess a pa...
Synchronization is widely considered as an important service in distributed systems which may simplify protocol design. Phase clock is a general synchronization tool that provides ...
Abstract—Many applications in wireless sensor networks require communication performance that is both consistent and high quality. Unfortunately, performance of current network p...
Shan Lin, Gang Zhou, Kamin Whitehouse, Yafeng Wu, ...
— A class of CSMA protocols used in a broad range of wireless applications uses synchronized contention where nodes periodically contend at intervals of fixed duration. While se...
Byzantine Quorum Systems is a replication technique used to ensure availability and consistency of replicates data even in presence of arbitrary faults. This paper presents a Byzan...