Abstract— Natural or man-made disasters can partition networks while threatening human lives. Because conventional Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANETs) cannot route messages across pa...
In the Internet today, users and applications must often make decisions based on the performance they expect to receive from other Internet hosts. For example, users can often vie...
Many emerging applications in both wired and wireless networks need support of secure group communications. There have been many secure group communication schemes in the setting ...
Bluetooth is a promising new technology that enables portable devices to form short-range wireless ad hoc networks and relies on spread spectrum frequency hopping (FH) techniques f...
This paper addresses the problem of scatternet formation and maintenance for multi-hop Bluetooth based personal area and ad hoc networks with minimal communication overhead. Each ...