Abstract—Packet collision causes packet loss and wastes resources in wireless networks. It becomes even worse in dense WSNs, due to burst-traffic and congestion around sinks. In...
Object caching is often used to improve the performance of mobile applications, but the gain is often lessened by the additional load of maintaining consistency between an origina...
New designs for petabyte-scale storage systems are now capable of transferring hundreds of gigabytes of data per second, but lack strong security. We propose a scalable and effici...
Motivated by the need to study traffic flow affected by incidents we consider M/M/C queueing system where servers operate in a Markovian environment. When a traffic incident hap...
Mass-produced goods tend to be highly standardized in order to maximize manufacturing efficiencies. Some high-value goods with limited production quantities remain much less stand...