The design of ad hoc mobile applications often requires the availability of a consistent view of the application state among the participating hosts. Such views are important beca...
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...
Group communication in multicast environment has been a growing importance in ad hoc networks, and providing secure communication in the group is essential in many ad hoc applicat...
Hartono Kurnio, Huaxiong Wang, Josef Pieprzyk, Kri...
Abstract-- The efficiency of a communication network depends not only on its control protocols, but also on the underlying network topology. We propose a distributed topology manag...