Bluetooth standard allows the creation of piconets, with one node serving as its master and up to seven nodes serving as slaves. A Bluetooth ad hoc network can also be formed by in...
IEEE 802.11, the standard of wireless local area networks (WLANs), allows the coexistence of asynchronous and time-bounded traffic using the distributed coordination function (DCF)...
Under a multirate network scenario, the IEEE 802.11 DCF MAC fails to provide airtime fairness for all competing stations since the protocol is designed for ensuring max-min through...
: Networks and distributed computing systems are becoming increasingly important and at the same time, more and more critical to the world of Information Technology. This rash spre...
Abstract. Aggregation is an important building block of modern distributed applications, allowing the determination of meaningful properties (e.g. network size, total storage capac...