Abstract. We describe and model a new aspect in the design of distributed information systems. We build upon a previously described problem on the microlevel, which asks how quickl...
— When an emergency occurs within a building, it may be initially safer to send autonomous mobile nodes, instead of human responders, to explore the area and identify hazards and...
This paper presents the development of a set of ontologies for use in messaging systems within military and emergency first responder command and control applications. These ontolo...
Duc N. Nguyen, Joseph B. Kopena, Boon Thau Loo, Wi...
In multi-hop networks, packet schedulers at downstream nodes have an opportunity to make up for excessive latencies due to congestion at upstream nodes. Similarly, when packets inc...
Large-scale bandwidth-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks can quickly knock out substantial parts of a network before reactive defenses can respond. Even traffic flo...
Jerry Chi-Yuan Chou, Bill Lin, Subhabrata Sen, Oli...