Abstract— Data gathering is one of the most important services provided by wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Since the predominant traffic pattern in data gathering services is m...
The scale at which scientific data is produced will undergo a massive change in the near future. Many sophisticated scientific discovery laboratories or the installation of sensor...
: - In the first part of this paper we present the first steps towards providing low-risk and economically feasible network data transfer services. We introduce three types of data...
Peer-to-peer systems offer attractive system management properties, including the ability of components that join the network to self-organize; scalability up to tens of thousands...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks are distributed systems in which nodes of equal roles and capabilities exchange information and services directly with each other. In recent years, the...