The presence of physical obstacles and radio interference results in the so called “shadow regions” in wireless networks. When a mobile station roams into a shadow region, it ...
Dongyan Chen, Sachin Garg, Chandra M. R. Kintala, ...
The execution of distributed applications involving mobile terminals and fixed servers connected by wireless links raises the need for handling network disconnections, both invol...
Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a new end-to-end transport protocol, which can be used to support the mobility of mobile terminals. This paper describes a framework ...
Heartbeat protocols are used by distributed programs to ensure that if a process in a program terminates or fails, then the remaining processes in the program terminate. We presen...
The rapid diffusion of heterogeneous forms of wireless connectivity is pushing the tremendous growth of the commercial interest in mobile services, i.e., distributed applications ...
Paolo Bellavista, Antonio Corradi, Carlo Giannelli