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ICWN
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Demand-Driven Clustering in MANETs
Abstract-- Many clustering protocols for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) have been proposed in the literature. With only one exception so far [1], all these protocols are proactive...
Curt Cramer, Oliver Stanze, Kilian Weniger, Martin...
ICWN
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Improvements to Location-Aided Routing Through Directional Count Restrictions
We present an effective way to improve the quality of unicast routes determined by the LAR Box method. Our method uses the location information acquired by LAR itself to determine ...
Michael Colagrosso, Nathan Enochs, Tracy Camp
ICWN
2004
13 years 6 months ago
QoS Support in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey
In this paper, we assess the state of the art of Quality of Services (QoS) support in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Unlike traditional end-to-end multimedia applications, many n...
Dazhi Chen, Pramod K. Varshney
ICWN
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Securing Data Transmissions and Retransmissions Management in Ad Hoc Networks
We present in this paper a solution exploiting existence of multiple paths between nodes to secure data in Ad hoc networks. This solution is also designed in the aim to give the ne...
Souheila Bouam, Jalel Ben-Othman
ICWN
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Searching in Variably Connected P2P Networks
Peer-to-Peer networks are gaining popularity through file-sharing communities. Most P2P networks demand a certain stability from it's nodes in order to function satisfactory. ...
Njål T. Borch, Lars Kristian Vognild
ICWN
2004
13 years 6 months ago
RED for Improving TCP over Wireless Networks
TCP was designed and tuned to work well on networks where losses are mainly congestion losses. The performance of TCP decreases dramatically when a TCP connection traverses a wire...
Saad Biaz, Xia Wang
ICWN
2004
13 years 6 months ago
A Distributed Clustering Framework in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Abstract-- In this paper, we present a completely distributed algorithm for partitioning a given set of mobile nodes into clusters. The proposed algorithm tries to reduce the amoun...
Mohit Garg, R. K. Shyamasundar
ICWN
2004
13 years 6 months ago
An Embedded Healthcare System for Blood Glucose Monitoring in a Body Area Network
This paper presents a Java service platform and hardware design for a handheld healthcare system that enables remote health monitoring using CDMA public wireless networks. Special...
Kil-Ho Ahn, Jae-Wan Park, Dong Ryeol Shin, Ji-Tae ...