A quorum system is a family of sets (themselves called quorums), each pair of which intersect. In many distributed algorithms, the basic unit accessed by a client is a quorum of n...
Anupam Gupta, Bruce M. Maggs, Florian Oprea, Micha...
Due to the scarcity of the spectral resources and mobility of the portables, the call attempts may be blocked during call initiation or terminated during the hand-off process. Whe...
Hash tables provide efficient table implementations, achieving O(1), query, insert and delete operations at low loads. However, at moderate or high loads collisions are quite freq...
During overload, most networks drop packets due to buffer unavailability. The resulting timeouts at the source provide an implicit mechanism to convey congestion signals from the n...
—Wireless ad hoc networks are connected to the fixed Internet by means of Internet gateways. Whenever a node within the ad hoc network wishes to communicate with a host in the I...