This paper studies semantic efficiency measures for ambient intelligence. We follow an agent-based approach and investigate how large quantities of information can be efficiently ...
Jurriaan van Diggelen, Robbert-Jan Beun, Rogier M....
Wide-area service replication is becoming increasingly common, with the emergence of new operational models such as content delivery networks and computational grids. This paper d...
Bogdan C. Popescu, Bruno Crispo, Andrew S. Tanenba...
On a wired network, physical authentication is implicitly provided by access: if a user is able to plug a cable into a network socket, he must have cleared other security checks s...
—We envision a two-tier sensor network which consists of resource-rich master nodes at the upper tier and resourcepoor sensor nodes at the lower tier. Master nodes collect data f...
This paper presents a comprehensive study on the performance of common MANET (mobile ad hoc network) routing protocols under realistic network scenarios. The routing protocols use...