We study how protocol design for various functionalities within a communication network architecture can be viewed as a distributed resource allocation problem. This involves unde...
— A deep understanding of the structural properties of wireless networks is critical for evaluating the performance of network protocols and improving their designs. Many protoco...
Jianer Chen, Anxiao Jiang, Iyad A. Kanj, Ge Xia, F...
Unlike traditional multihop forwarding among homogeneous static sensor nodes, use of mobile devices for data collection in wireless sensor networks has recently been gathering more...
Recent work on BitTorrent has shown that the choke/unchoke mechanism implements an auction where each peer tries to induce other peers into "unchoking" it by uploading m...
Ben Leong, Youming Wang, Su Wen, Cristina Carbunar...
— We propose two contrasting approaches to the scalable distributed control of a swarm of self-assembling miniaturized robots, specifically the formation of chains of a desired ...