— Clustering sensor nodes increases the scalability and energy efficiency of communications among them. In hostile environments, unexpected failures or attacks on cluster heads ...
We consider the problem of finding "backbones" in multihop wireless networks. The backbone provides end-toend connectivity, allowing non-backbone nodes to save energy sin...
Seungjoon Lee, Bobby Bhattacharjee, Aravind Sriniv...
— Lightweight protocols that are both bandwidth and power thrifty are desirable for sensor networks. In addition, for many sensor network applications, timeliness of data deliver...
James Jobin, Zhenqiang Ye, Honomount Rawat, Srikan...
— Cooperative and reliable packet forwarding presents a formidable challenge in mobile ad hoc networks (MANET), due to special network characteristics; e.g., mobility, dynamic to...
Multimedia traffic and real-time e-commerce applications can experience quality degradation in traditional networks such as the Internet. These difficulties can be overcome in n...