—It is well known that IEEE 802.11 provides a physical layer multirate capability and, hence, MAC layer mechanisms are needed to exploit this capability. Several solutions have b...
Information is valuable to users when it is available not only at the right time but also at the right place. To support efficient location-based data access in wireless data broad...
Baihua Zheng, Wang-Chien Lee, Ken C. K. Lee, Dik L...
Abstract—In this paper, we analyze three opportunistic multichannel MAC protocols that associate a newcoming terminal station to one of the access points available within its tra...
Wireless and mobile networks represent an enabling technology for ubiquitous access to information systems. However, there are critical issues that still prevent the widespread us...
In federated Data Grids, individual institutions share their data sets within a community to enable collaborative data analysis. Data access needs to be provided in a scalable fas...
Tobias Scholl, Richard Kuntschke, Angelika Reiser,...