Abstract--In a wireless network, with the aid of rate adaptation, multiuser diversity can be exploited by allowing the mobile user with the best channel to use the channel. However...
— Incentive protocols play a crucial role to encourage cooperation among nodes in networking applications. The aim of this paper is to provide a general analytical framework to a...
Relay-assisted cooperative wireless communication has been shown to have significant performance gains over the legacy direct transmission scheme. Compared with single relay base...
Pei Liu, Chun Nie, Thanasis Korakis, Elza Erkip, S...
Securing data is becoming a crucial need for most internet-based applications. Whereas the problem of data confidentiality has been widely investigated, the problem of how to ens...
Yunhua Koglin, Giovanni Mella, Elisa Bertino, Elen...
In this paper, we present a mechanism to fly a swarm of UAVs with the aim of establishing a wireless backbone over a pre-specified area. The backbone is aimed at connecting interm...