Abstract. Renewed interest in ALOHA-based Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols stems from their proposed applications to wireless ad hoc and sensor networks that require distribut...
−Buffered multistage interconnection networks offer one of the most scalable and cost-effective approaches to building high capacity routers. Unfortunately, the performance of su...
Abstract--This paper presents a novel loss recovery scheme, Active Reliable Multicast (ARM), for large-scale reliable multicast. ARM is "active" in that routers in the mu...
Li-Wei H. Lehman, Stephen J. Garland, David L. Ten...
Network of workstation (NOW) is a cost-effective alternative to massively parallel supercomputers. As commercially available off-the-shelf processors become cheaper and faster, ...
Establishing trust amongst agents is of central importance to the development of well-functioning multi-agent systems. For example, the anonymity of transactions on the Internet c...