We present an architecture for a data sharing peer-to-peer system where the data is shared in the form of database relations. In general, peer-to-peer systems try to locate exactm...
— A novel cooperative multiple access protocol for packet speech communications is proposed. Cooperation is achieved through a relay node and by exploiting the silence periods du...
Amr El-Sherif, Andres Kwasinski, Ahmed K. Sadek, K...
This paper is a critical analysis of the use of ontology as an instrument to specify the semantics of a document. The paper argue that not only is a logic of the type used in ontol...
Abstract— Heterogeneous multicast is an efficient communication scheme especially for multimedia applications running over multihop networks when multicast receivers in the same...
Traditional DBMSs decouple statistics collection and query optimization both in space and time. Decoupling in time may lead to outdated statistics. Decoupling in space may cause s...
Amr El-Helw, Ihab F. Ilyas, Wing Lau, Volker Markl...