In many network applications the computation takes place on the minimum-cost spanning tree (MST) of the network; unfortunately, a single link or node failure disconnects the tree. ...
Paola Flocchini, Toni Mesa Enriquez, Linda Pagli, ...
Abstract--Reliability and/or availability are increasingly important aspects in the design of systems, especially networks and service offerings. Optimization here is a multi-crite...
—Gossip protocols are designed to operate in very large, decentralised networks. A node in such a network bases its decision to interact (gossip) with another node on its partial...
Rena Bakhshi, Lucia Cloth, Wan Fokkink, Boudewijn ...
Cooperative communications fully leverages the broadcast nature of the wireless channel and spatial diversity, thereby achieving tremendous improvements in system capacity and dela...
Although virtual organizations and networks have been studied for quite some time, there is still need for research regarding their inner dynamics and the mechanisms of leadership...