Distributed databases operating over wide-area networks such as the Internet, must deal with the unpredictable nature of the performance of communication. The response times of acc...
Laurent Amsaleg, Michael J. Franklin, Anthony Toma...
—Telecommunications networks, and in particular optical WDM networks, are vulnerable to large-scale failures of their physical infrastructure, resulting from physical attacks (su...
Pankaj K. Agarwal, Alon Efrat, Shashidhara K. Ganj...
Analysis of the drafi IEEE 802.11 wireless local area network (WLAN) standard is needed to characterize the expected performance of the standard’s ad hoc and infrastructure netw...
Brian P. Crow, Indra Widjaja, Jeong Geun Kim, Pres...
—Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are a critical technology in filling the gap where the network infrastructure is insufficient or does not exist at all. The dynamic topology of...
Jangeun Jun, Mihail L. Sichitiu, Hector D. Flores,...
Abstract—Home area networks (HANs) promise to enable sophisticated home automation applications such as smart energy usage and assisted living. However, recent empirical study of...