—The ubiquity of mobile devices has brought forth the concept of participatory sensing, whereby ordinary citizens can now contribute and share information from the urban environm...
In recent years, Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) have received tremendous attention because of their self-configuration and self-maintenance capabilities. With open network archite...
Abstract--Presence, broadly defined as an event publishnotification infrastructure for converged applications, has emerged as a key mechanism for collecting and disseminating conte...
Multicast routing protocols in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) are emerging for wireless group communication which includes application such as multipoint data dissemination and m...
In this paper, we consider the problem of file synchronization when a mobile host shares files with a backbone file server in a network file system. Several diff schemes have been...