In an open environment such as the Internet, the decision to collaborate with a stranger (e.g., by granting access to a resource) is often based on the characteristics (rather tha...
The popular IEEE 802.11 WLAN today does not provide any quality-of-service (QoS) because of its contention-based channel access nature of the medium access control (MAC). Therefore...
A number of analytical models have been proposed to describe the priority schemes of the Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) mechanism of the IEEE 802.11e standard. EDCA pr...
This paper presents ongoing research and current results on the development of flexible access control infrastructure for complex resource provisioning (CRP) in Grid-based applica...
— There is a growing trend towards convergence of telecommunication and data networks in order to support a richer set of services and applications. At the same time, increasing ...