—The performance of prevalent MAC protocols in MANETs relies on the level of contention in networks. While contention-based MAC protocols such as CSMA suffer from inefficiency u...
Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are a virulent type of attack on the availability of networks’ intended services and resources. Defense against DoS attacks has been built into th...
Availability is a critical issue in modern distributed systems. While many techniques and protocols for preventing denial of service (DoS) attacks have been proposed and deployed ...
: We discuss a group protocol which supports applications with group communication service when QoS supported by networks or required by applications is changed. An autonomic group...
Truly autonomic networks ultimately require self-modifying, evolving protocol software. Otherwise humans must intervene in every situation that has not been anticipated at design t...