—Driven by both safety concerns and commercial interests, one of the key services offered by vehicular networks is popular content distribution (PCD). The fundamental challenges ...
Access control is the fundamental security service in ad hoc groups. It is needed not only to prevent unauthorized entities from joining the group, but also to bootstrap other secu...
Key pre-distribution techniques for security provision of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have attracted significant interests recently. In these schemes, a relatively small numbe...
Turbo coding is a powerful class of error correcting codes, which can achieve performances close to the Shannon limit. The turbo principle can be applied to the problem of side-in...
Kim-Chi Nguyen, Gilles Van Assche, Nicolas J. Cerf
Task-specific groups are often formed in an ad-hoc manner within big structures, like companies. Take the following typical scenario: A high rank manager decides that a task force...