In wireless local area networks often a station can potentially associate with more than one access point. Therefore, a relevant question is which access point to select “best...
The main purpose of many current peer-to-peer (P2P) networks is off-line file sharing. However, a potentially very promising use of such networks is to share video streams (e.g.,...
Failure models characterise the expected component failures in fault-tolerant computing. In the context of distributed systems, a failure model usually consists of two parts: a fu...
Timo Warns, Felix C. Freiling, Wilhelm Hasselbring
CSMA-based MAC protocols require wireless nodes to share the transmission medium with other nodes that are within carriersensing (CS) range. Hence, operations that depend on and c...
Kimaya Sanzgiri, Ian D. Chakeres, Elizabeth M. Bel...
For Deaf people, access to the mobile telephone network in the United States is currently limited to text messaging, forcing communication in English as opposed to American Sign L...