The increasing number of new applications for mobile devices in pervasive environments, do not cope with changes in the wireless communications. Developers of such applications hav...
Alessandro Genco, Antonio Gentile, Cono Ferrarotto...
In the last decade, cluster computing has become the most popular high-performance computing architecture. Although numerous technological innovations have been proposed to improv...
IP telephony over mobile ad hoc networks is a topic of emerging interest in the research arena as one of the paths toward the fixed-mobile convergence in telecommunications networ...
Paolo Giacomazzi, Luigi Musumeci, Giuseppe Caizzon...
With the advent of computational grids, networking performance over the wide-area network (WAN) has become a critical component in the grid infrastructure. Unfortunately, many hig...
—IEEE 802.11 DCF is the MAC protocol currently used in wireless LANs. 802.11 DCF is inefficient due to two types of overhead; channel idle time and collision time. This paper pr...