—Coupling Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) with wired networks such as the Internet via access points creates a difficult mix of highly mobile nodes and a static infrastructur...
Although epidemic or gossip-based multicast is a robust and scalable approach to reliable data dissemination, its inherent redundancy results in high resource consumption on both ...
This paper describes the analysis, implementation and performance of a new algorithm engineered to discipline a computer clock to a source of standard time, such as a GPS receiver...
The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is widely used to synchronize computer clocks throughout the Internet. Existing NTP clients and servers form a very large distributed system, and y...
—The amount of audiovisual data available on the Internet and thus of multimedia communication over today’s networks is increasing at a rapid pace. Despite the availability of ...