As Grids try to achieve optimal and balanced utilization of unused resources in a distributed system, fast and efficient discovery of resource states is a key requirement. For sm...
Virtual infrastructures or backbones in wireless sensor networks reduce the communication overhead and energy consumption. In this paper, we present BackBone Routing (BBR), a nove...
Abstract. A MAC protocol specifies how nodes in a sensor network access a shared communication channel. Desired properties of such MAC protocol are: it should be distributed and c...
Costas Busch, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Fikret Sivrikay...
Effective mechanisms for detecting and thwarting Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks are becoming increasingly important to the success of today’s Internet as a viable ...
Sumit Ganguly, Minos N. Garofalakis, Rajeev Rastog...
Key management is one of the fundamental building blocks of security services. In a network with resource constrained nodes like sensor networks, traditional key management techni...