More than 20 years after the launch of the public Internet, operator forums are still full of reports about temporary unreachability of complete networks. We propose FACT, a system...
This paper considers the role of network connectivity in supporting context-sensitive applications. A range of context-sensitive applications are analysed with respect to connectiv...
Keith Cheverst, Nigel Davies, Keith Mitchell, Adri...
Many unstructured peer to peer (P2P) systems rely on a Peer Sampling Service (PSS) that returns randomly sampled nodes from the population comprising the system. PSS protocols are...
Bluetooth is a promising new technology that enables portable devices to form short-range wireless ad hoc networks and relies on spread spectrum frequency hopping (FH) techniques f...
Many combinatorial optimization problems such as the bin packing and multiple knapsack problems involve assigning a set of discrete objects to multiple containers. These problems ...