The use of contention-based MAC protocols combined with hidden terminal problems make multi-hop wireless ad hoc networks much more sensitive to load and congestion than wired netw...
Ken Tang, Katia Obraczka, Sung-Ju Lee, Mario Gerla
Through ethnographic research, we document the rise of personal social networks in the workplace, which we call intensional networks. Paradoxically, we find that the most fundament...
Bonnie A. Nardi, Steve Whittaker, Heinrich Schwarz
We present a model for soft handoff in wireless cellular networks. In such networks, due to overlapping cells, handoffs are not instantaneous and multiple channels may be occupied...
In large networks, maintaining precise global network state information is almost impossible. Many factors, such as non-negligible propagation delay, infrequent state updates due ...
TORRENT is an EU-Supported Framework 5 project that is showing how intelligent control and negotiation capabilities can be built into access networks so as to give the residential...
Eric Scharf, Peter Hamer, Konstantinos Smparounis,...