One protocol (called the primary protocol) is independent of other protocols (jointly called the secondary protocol) if the question whether the primary protocol achieves a securi...
Two tasks of communication in a multi-hop synchronous radio network are considered: point-to-point communication and broadcast (sending a message to all nodes of a network). Effi...
—Many publish/subscribe systems implement a policy for clients to join to their physically closest broker to minimize transmission delays incurred on the clients’ messages. How...
— The IEEE 802.15.4 Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol is designed for low data rate, short distance and low power communication applications such as Wireless Sensor Networks (...
In this paper a framework for a high-confidence e-healthcare information system which meets five criteria including availability, reliability, security, survivability and restorab...