Abstract— This paper presents a decentralized negotiation protocol for cooperative economic scheduling in a supply chain environment. For this purpose we designed autonomous agen...
The paper presents an MPEG-7 Multimedia Description Schemes (MDS)-based metadata and user profile model used within an enhanced DTV environment for semantic annotation and person...
— The Distributed Spanning Tree (DST) is an overlay structure designed to be scalable. It supports the growth from small scale to large scale. The DST is a tree without bottlenec...
The primary purpose of a network is to provide reachability between applications running on end hosts. In this paper, we describe how to compute the reachability a network provide...
Geoffrey G. Xie, Jibin Zhan, David A. Maltz, Hui Z...
We investigate the problem of maximizing the lifetime of wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. Being battery powered, nodes in such networks have to perform their intended task und...