— The network quality of service (QoS) and the congestion control of the transport protocol are important parameters for the performance of a network data transfer. To this end, ...
A private information retrieval scheme is a protocol whereby a client obtains a record from a database without the database operators learning anything about which record the clien...
Abstract— In an IEEE 802.11 network, the traffic load collectively given by wireless stations (WSs) is usually not fairly shared by all available access points (APs), as WSs ind...
Understanding the performance of backoff algorithms in multihop ad hoc networks is a key feature to design efficient Medium Access Protocols for wireless networks. The 802.11 bac...
Open and fair elections are paramount to modern democracy. Although some people claim that the penciland-paper systems used in countries such as Canada and UK are still the best m...