BROADNETS
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
— In a WLAN subject to variable wireless channel conditions, rate adaptation plays an important role to more efficiently utilize the physical link. However, the existing rate ada...
BROADNETS
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
Multicast enables efficient data transmission from one source to multiple destinations, and has been playing an important role in Internet multimedia applications. Although sever...
BROADNETS
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
Abstract— This paper provides a concise modeling and performance evaluation of the iSCSI storage area network (SAN) architecture and protocol. SANs play a key role in business co...
BROADNETS
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
BROADNETS
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
Abstract— Privacy and security are two important but seemingly contradict objectives in pervasive computing environments (PCEs). On the one hand, service providers want to authen...
BROADNETS
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
— We compare the effectiveness of uniform versus non-uniform waveband switching under the dual cost metrics of switching requirements and fiber capacity. We consider a star topo...
BROADNETS
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
BROADNETS
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
— Networks employ link protection to achieve fast recovery from link failures. While the first link failure can be protected using link protection, there are several alternative...
BROADNETS
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
— A Block ACK (BTA) scheme has been proposed in IEEE 802.11e to improve medium access control (MAC) layer performance. It is also a promising technique for next-generation high-s...
BROADNETS
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
— Lightweight protocols that are both bandwidth and power thrifty are desirable for sensor networks. In addition, for many sensor network applications, timeliness of data deliver...