A critical resource in a distributed real-time system is its shared communication medium. Unrestrained concurrent access to the network can lead to collisions that reduce the syst...
A quorum system is a family of sets (themselves called quorums), each pair of which intersect. In many distributed algorithms, the basic unit accessed by a client is a quorum of n...
Anupam Gupta, Bruce M. Maggs, Florian Oprea, Micha...
—Cooperative broadcast aims to deliver common messages to all receiver nodes in the wireless network by utilizing cooperation between them. This can have many important applicati...
This paper presents ARC (Adaptive Range Control), a communication range control mechanism using directional antennas to be implemented across multiple layers. ARC uses directional...
Delay tolerant and mobile ad hoc networks, present considerable challenges to the development of protocols and systems. In particular, the challenge of being able to cope with the...