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EWSN
2006
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
f-MAC: A Deterministic Media Access Control Protocol Without Time Synchronization
Nodes in a wireless network transmit messages through a shared medium. Thus, a Media Access Control (MAC) protocol is necessary to regulate and coordinate medium access. For some a...
André M. Barroso, Cormac J. Sreenan, Utz Ro...
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Modeling relationship strength in online social networks
Previous work analyzing social networks has mainly focused on binary friendship relations. However, in online social networks the low cost of link formation can lead to networks w...
Rongjing Xiang, Jennifer Neville, Monica Rogati
CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
A Network-Aware Distributed Membership Protocol for Collaborative Defense
— To counteract current trends in network malware, distributed solutions have been developed that harness the power of collaborative end-host sensors. While these systems greatly...
David Zage, Carl Livadas, Eve M. Schooler
GLOBECOM
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
On Spectrum Selection Games in Cognitive Radio Networks
Abstract—Cognitive Radio Networks aim at enhancing spectrum utilization by allowing cognitive devices to opportunistically access vast portions of the spectrum. To reach such amb...
Ilaria Malanchini, Matteo Cesana, Nicola Gatti
MUE
2009
IEEE
144views Multimedia» more  MUE 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Maxtream: Stabilizing P2P Streaming by Active Prediction of Behavior Patterns
In theory, peer-to-peer (P2P) based streaming designs and simulations provide a promising alternative to serverbased streaming systems both in cost and scalability. In practice ho...
Shay Horovitz, Danny Dolev