— The current standard for Fault-Tolerance in the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) does not support network partitioning. However, distributed systems, and those...
Wireless local area network (WLAN) systems are widely implemented today to provide hot-spot coverage. Operated typically in an infrastructure mode, each WLAN is managed by an acces...
—Several recent research activities have started to recognize the relevant role of k-hop clustering in Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANET) to effectively support many relevant tasks, ...
—Fault tolerance techniques have been widely used in wireless sensor networks. Base station placement to maximize the network lifetime has also been well studied. However, limite...
Managing trust is a key issue for a wide acceptance of P2P computing, particularly in critical areas such as e-commerce. Reputation-based trust management has been identified in t...