With the success of libre (free, open source) software, a new type of software compilation has become increasingly common. Such compilations, often referred to as ‘distributions...
Abstract. With more and more electronic information sources becoming widely available, the issue of the quality of these often-competing sources has become germane. We propose a st...
A desirable goal for cryptographic protocols is to guarantee security when the protocol is composed with other protocol instances. Universally Composable (UC) protocols provide th...
Boaz Barak, Ran Canetti, Jesper Buus Nielsen, Rafa...
Abstract. Today, there exist many algorithms and protocols for constructing agregation or dissemination trees for wireless sensor networks that are optimal (for different notions o...
—IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) uses a binary exponential backoff algorithm to arbitrate simultaneous channel access by multiple stations. When a station sen...