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INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Balanced Relay Allocation on Heterogeneous Unstructured Overlays
— Due to the increased usage of NAT boxes and firewalls, it has become harder for applications to establish direct connections seamlessly among two end-hosts. A recently adopted...
Hung Xuan Nguyen, Daniel R. Figueiredo, Matthias G...
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Capacity of Hybrid Cellular-Ad Hoc Data Networks
—In this paper, towards improving spatial reuse in a cellular network, we consider augmenting it with wireless ad hoc connectivity. The coverage area of each base-station is redu...
Lap Kong Law, Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy, Michalis ...
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
On the Throughput Capacity of Opportunistic Multicasting with Erasure Codes
— In this paper, we concentrate on opportunistic scheduling for multicast information. We pose the problem as a multicast throughput optimization problem. As a solution we presen...
Ulas C. Kozat
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Evaluating the Vulnerability of Network Mechanisms to Sophisticated DDoS Attacks
—The design of computer and communication systems has been based, for decades, on the fundamental assumption that the objective of all users is to improve their own performance. ...
Udi Ben-Porat, Anat Bremler-Barr, Hanoch Levy
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Proportional Fairness in Multi-Rate Wireless LANs
—In multi-rate wireless LANs, throughput-based fair bandwidth allocation can lead to drastically reduced aggregate throughput. To balance aggregate throughput while serving users...
Erran L. Li, Martin Pal, Yang Richard Yang
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
The Speed of Information Propagation in Large Wireless Networks
Abstract—This paper investigates the speed limit of information propagation in large wireless networks, which provides fundamental understanding of the fastest information transp...
Yi Xu, Wenye Wang
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
On Maximizing the Lifetime of Delay-Sensitive Wireless Sensor Networks with Anycast
—Sleep-wake scheduling is an effective mechanism to prolong the lifetime of energy-constrained wireless sensor networks. However, it incurs an additional delay for packet deliver...
Joohwan Kim, Xiaojun Lin, Ness B. Shroff, Prasun S...
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Reducing Maximum Stretch in Compact Routing
—It is important in communication networks to use routes that are as short as possible (i.e have low stretch) while keeping routing tables small. Recent advances in compact routi...
Mihaela Enachescu, Mei Wang, Ashish Goel
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Iso-Contour Queries and Gradient Descent with Guaranteed Delivery in Sensor Networks
—We study the problem of data-driven routing and navigation in a distributed sensor network over a continuous scalar field. Specifically, we address the problem of searching fo...
Rik Sarkar, Xianjin Zhu, Jie Gao, Leonidas J. Guib...
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
APL: Autonomous Passive Localization for Wireless Sensors Deployed in Road Networks
Abstract—In road networks, sensors are deployed sparsely (hundreds of meters apart) to save costs. This makes the existing localization solutions based on the ranging be ineffect...
Jaehoon Jeong, Shuo Guo, Tian He, David Du