A number of factors, such as the increasing popularity of wireless networks, the opportunities offered by 3G services, and the rapid proliferation of mobile devices, have stimulat...
In mobile-AdHoc networks (MANETs), many applications need the support of layer-structure. Clustering solution is the most widely used layerstructure and the choosing of clusterhead...
We present a specification for a new, localized group membership service that maintains the membership status of adjacent nodes – called neighbors – in a mobile distributed s...
Abstract--Applications involving the dissemination of information directly relevant to humans (e.g., service advertising, news spreading, environmental alerts) often rely on publis...
Paolo Costa, Cecilia Mascolo, Mirco Musolesi, Gian...
This paper presents Contory, a middleware specifically deployed to support provisioning of context information on mobile devices such as smart phones. Contory integrates multiple...