— 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...
—Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are a critical technology in filling the gap where the network infrastructure is insufficient or does not exist at all. The dynamic topology of...
Jangeun Jun, Mihail L. Sichitiu, Hector D. Flores,...
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...
To facilitate a broad range of experimental research on novel protocols and application concepts, we employ an indoor wireless testbed to emulate the performance of the real-world...
Jing Lei, Roy D. Yates, Larry J. Greenstein, Hang ...
— In this paper, we consider real-time speech traffic, real-time circuit-switched data (CSD) and non-real-time packetswitched data (PSD) in the UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Net...
Michael Menth, Matthias Schmid, Herbert Heiss, Tho...