Time synchronization is a crucial component of a large class of sensor network applications, traditionally implemented as a standalone middleware service that provides a virtual gl...
—Beaconing is a primitive communication task in which every node locally broadcasts a packet to all its neighbors within a fixed distance. Assume that all communications proceed...
Peng-Jun Wan, Zhu Wang, Hongwei Du, Scott C.-H. Hu...
A public key infrastructure is generally (and effectively) used for cryptographically secure authentication in the networks. Ad-hoc networks are formed in haphazard manner. Securi...
This paper presents 7DS, a novel peer-to-peer data sharing system. 7DS is an architecture, a set of protocols and an implementation enabling the exchange of data among peers that ...
Heterogeneous users usually have different requirements as far as consistency of shared data is concerned. This paper proposes and investigates a mixed consistency model to meet t...