Abstract--Previous simulations have shown substantial performance gains can be achieved by using hybrid cellular and wireless LAN (WLAN) approaches [1]. In a hybrid system, a proxy...
The development of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) for wireless sensing and monitoring of a person’s vital functions, is an enabler in providing better personal health care w...
Encrypted Key Exchange (EKE) [1, 2] allows two parties sharing a password to exchange authenticated information over an insecure network by using a combination of public and secre...
Abstract Privacy has become a factor of increasing importance in auction design. We propose general techniques for cryptographic first-price and (M + 1)st-price auction protocols t...
Reliable, inexpensive, on-the-fly networks can be established using mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) technology. Such networks can be used in a wide variety of scenarios ranging from...