Efficient routing and medium access control (MAC) are very important for Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs). Most existing routing and MAC protocols consider homogeneous ad hoc networ...
iDIBS is a peer-to-peer backup system which optimizes the Distributed Internet Backup System (DIBS). iDIBS offers increased reliability by enhancing the robustness of existing pac...
Faruck Morcos, Thidapat Chantem, Philip Little, Ti...
— This paper studies the design of layer-2 protocols for a vehicle to send safety messages to other vehicles. The target is to send vehicle safety messages with high reliability ...
We are concerned with the use of Mobile Agents for information retrieval. A multi-agent system is considered; a number of agents are involved in a collective effort to retrieve di...
In a distributed system, replication of components, such as objects, is a well known way of achieving availability. For increased availability, crashed and disconnected components...