Abstract— Privacy and security are two important but seemingly contradict objectives in pervasive computing environments (PCEs). On the one hand, service providers want to authen...
— In a WLAN subject to variable wireless channel conditions, rate adaptation plays an important role to more efficiently utilize the physical link. However, the existing rate ada...
Qixiang Pang, Victor C. M. Leung, Soung Chang Liew
— Seamless interoperability between two dissimilar networks require handoff from one network to the other. Such handoffs are known as vertical handoffs. Vertical handoff introduc...
Abstract— We explore network design principles for nextgeneration all-optical wide-area networks, employing light-trail technology. Light-trail [1] is a light-wave circuit that a...
Srivatsan Balasubramanian, Ahmed E. Kamal, Arun K....
—The peer-to-peer technology offers many advantages, but at the same time, it poses many novel challenges for the research community. Modern peer-to-peer systems are characterize...