Internet radio and television stations require significant bandwidth to support delivery of high quality audio and video streams to a large number of receivers. IP multicast is a...
Abstract— In WiFi networks, mobile nodes compete for accessing a shared channel by means of a random access protocol called Distributed Coordination Function (DCF). Although this...
A contract is a non-repudiable agreement on a given contract text, i.e., a contract can be used to prove agreement between its signatories to any verifier. A contract signing sche...
Birgit Pfitzmann, Matthias Schunter, Michael Waidn...
Gossip-based protocols are commonly used for diffusing information in large-scale distributed applications. GO (Gossip Objects) is a per-node gossip platform that we developed in...
Ymir Vigfusson, Ken Birman, Qi Huang, Deepak P. Na...
Abstract—In wireless sensor networks, asynchronous sleepwake scheduling protocols can significantly reduce energy consumption without incurring the communication overhead for cl...