Effective security mechanisms are essential to the widespread deployment of pervasive systems. Much of the research focus on security in pervasive computing has revolved around dis...
Management of large-scale Network-Centric Systems (NCS) and their applications is an extremely complex and challenging task due to factors such as centralized management architect...
ct The Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) has identified ambient-awareness and device diversity as two key properties of applications and services in future mobile systems [1]. ...
LEACH (Low Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy) [1] is one of the popular cluster-based structures, which has been widely proposed in wireless sensor networks. LEACH uses a TDMA ...
Aggregate traffic loads and topology in multi-hop wireless networks may vary slowly, permitting MAC protocols to `learn' how to spatially coordinate and adapt contention patte...