The “small world” phenomenon, i.e., the fact that the global social network is strongly connected in the sense that every two persons are inter-related through a small chain o...
— Peer selection for query routing is a core task in peer-to-peer networks. Unstructured peer-to-peer systems (like Gnutella) ignore this problem, leading to an abundance of netw...
In this paper we introduce Social VPNs, a novel system architecture which leverages existing social networking infrastructures to enable ad-hoc VPNs which are self-configuring, s...
Renato J. O. Figueiredo, P. Oscar Boykin, Pierre S...
Mobile ad hoc networks range from traditional MANETs where end-to-end paths exist from sources to destinations, to DTNs where no contemporaneous end-to-end paths exist and communi...
Dimitrios Antonellis, Ahmed Mansy, Konstantinos Ps...
Abstract--Due to technology or policy constraints, communications across network domains usually require the intervention of gateways, and their proper deployment is crucial to the...
Ting He, Kang-Won Lee, Nikoletta Sofra, Kin K. Leu...