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INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Flash Flooding: Exploiting the Capture Effect for Rapid Flooding in Wireless Sensor Networks
—We present the Flash flooding protocol for rapid network flooding in wireless sensor networks. Traditional flooding protocols can be very slow because of neighborhood content...
Jiakang Lu, Kamin Whitehouse
INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
A Theory of QoS for Wireless
—Wireless networks are increasingly used to carry applications with QoS constraints. Two problems arise when dealing with traffic with QoS constraints. One is admission control,...
I-Hong Hou, Vivek Borkar, P. R. Kumar
INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
An Evaluation of Weak State Mechanism Design for Indirection in Dynamic Networks
—State signaling and maintenance mechanisms play crucial roles in communication network protocols. State is used to facilitate indirections in protocols such as routing. Design a...
Utku Gunay Acer, Alhussein A. Abouzeid, Shivkumar ...
INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Alpha Coverage: Bounding the Interconnection Gap for Vehicular Internet Access
—Vehicular Internet access via open WLAN access points (APs) has been demonstrated to be a feasible solution to provide opportunistic data service to moving vehicles. Using an in...
Zizhan Zheng, Prasun Sinha, Santosh Kumar
INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Absence of Evidence as Evidence of Absence: A Simple Mechanism for Scalable P2P Search
Abstract—We propose a novel search mechanism for unstructured p2p networks, and show that it is both scalable, i.e., it leads to a bounded query traffic load per peer as the pee...
Stratis Ioannidis, Peter Marbach
INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Scalar Prefix Search: A New Route Lookup Algorithm for Next Generation Internet
Currently, the increasing rate of routing lookups in Internet routers, the large number of prefixes and also the transition from IPV4 to IPV6, have caused Internet designers to pro...
Mohammad Behdadfar, Hossein Saidi, Hamid Alaei, Ba...
INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Minimizing Average Finish Time in P2P Networks
—Peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution is a scalable way to disseminate content to a wide audience. For a P2P network, one fundamental performance metric is the average time need...
G. Matthew Ezovski, Ao Tang, Lachlan L. H. Andrew
INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
An Adaptive Link Layer for Range Diversity in Multi-Radio Mobile Sensor Networks
—An important challenge in mobile sensor networks is to enable energy-efficient communication over a diversity of distances while being robust to wireless effects caused by node...
Jeremy Gummeson, Deepak Ganesan, Mark D. Corner, P...
INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
A Cooperative Spectrum Sensing Consensus Scheme in Cognitive Radios
—Cooperative spectrum sensing is attracting more attention in Cognitive Radio networks. This paper proposes a fully distributed consensus-based cooperative spectrum sensing schem...
Zhiqiang Li, F. Richard Yu, Minyi Huang