—Multicasting is useful for various applications such as multimedia broadcasting. In current 802.11, multicast frames are sent as broadcast frames at a low transmission rate with...
Abstract—Many protocols for ad-hoc wireless networks perform poorly in situations when node cooperation cannot be enforced. This may happen because of the lack of global authorit...
—Although network-wide flooding in reactive routing protocols like AODV [1] facilitates the discovery of optimal routes, they engender large control overhead. Some efficient floo...
Recently overlay networks have emerged as an efficient and flexible method for content distribution. An overlay network is a network running on top of another network, usually the ...
Epidemics-inspired techniques have received huge attention in recent years from the distributed systems and networking communities. These algorithms and protocols rely on probabili...