The main contribution of this work is to propose efficient randomized leader election and initialization protocols for Packet Radio Networks (PRN, for short). As a result of the i...
This paper presents a TDMA based multi-channel MAC protocol called TMMAC for Ad Hoc Networks. TMMAC requires only a single half-duplex radio transceiver on each node. In addition t...
Jingbin Zhang, Gang Zhou, Chengdu Huang, Sang Hyuk...
A fair network payment protocol plays an important role in electronic commerce. The fairness concept in payments can be illustrated as that two parties (e.g. customers and merchant...
An important issue in the design of future Personal Communication Services (PCS) networks is the efficient management of location information. The current IS-41 standard P C S arc...
Govind Krishnamurthi, Stefano Chessa, Arun K. Soma...
— In a Mobile Ad hoc NETwork (MANET), mobile devices cooperate to forward packets for each other without the assistance of dedicated routing infrastructures. Due to its networkin...