The monopolist’s theory of optimal single-item auctions for agents with independent private values can be summarized by two statements. The first is from Myerson [8]: the optim...
—Enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA) is the basis protocol in IEEE 802.11e protocol suite. It is used for providing differentiated quality of service (QoS) in IEEE 802.11e...
Abstract— Emergent wide-area distributed systems like computational grids present opportunities for large scientific applications. On these systems, communication mechanisms hav...
Abstract— This paper presents a decentralized negotiation protocol for cooperative economic scheduling in a supply chain environment. For this purpose we designed autonomous agen...
Increasing popularity of wireless services has triggered the need for efficient wireless transport mechanisms. TCP, being the reliable transport level protocol widely used in wired...