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ICC
2007
IEEE
139views Communications» more  ICC 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Impatient Backoff Algorithm: Fairness in a Distributed Ad-Hoc MAC
— Many distributed multiple access (MAC) protocols use an exponential backoff mechanism. In that mechanism, a node picks a random backoff time uniformly in an interval that doubl...
Rajarshi Gupta, Jean C. Walrand
INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Protecting Receiver-Location Privacy in Wireless Sensor Networks
—Due to the open nature of a sensor network, it is relatively easy for an adversary to eavesdrop and trace packet movement in the network in order to capture the receiver physica...
Ying Jian, Shigang Chen, Zhan Zhang, Liang Zhang
MIDDLEWARE
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Utility-Aware Middleware Architecture for Decentralized Group Communication Applications
Abstract. The success of Internet telephony services like Skype illustrates the feasibility of utilizing unstructured Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks as an economical platform for supp...
Jianjun Zhang, Ling Liu, Lakshmish Ramaswamy, Gong...
SIGCOMM
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Planet scale software updates
Fast and effective distribution of software updates (a.k.a. patches) to millions of Internet users has evolved into a critical task over the last years. In this paper, we characte...
Christos Gkantsidis, Thomas Karagiannis, Milan Voj...
ICSNW
2004
Springer
188views Database» more  ICSNW 2004»
14 years 23 days ago
Peer Selection in Peer-to-Peer Networks with Semantic Topologies
Peer-to-Peer systems have proven to be an effective way of sharing data. Modern protocols are able to efficiently route a message to a given peer. However, determining the destin...
Peter Haase, Ronny Siebes, Frank van Harmelen