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Cross-chain technology enables interoperability among otherwise isolated blockchains, supporting interactions across heterogeneous networks. Similar to how multi-hop communication became fundamental in the evolution of the Internet, the…

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MPTCP is a new transport protocol that enables mobile devices to use multiple physical paths simultaneously through several network interfaces, such as WiFi and Cellular. However, wireless path capacities change frequently in the mobile…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Binbin Liao , Guangxing Zhang , Qinghua Wu , Zhenyu Li , Gaogang Xie

In WiFi networks, mobile nodes compete for accessing a shared channel by means of a random access protocol called Distributed Coordination Function (DCF). Although this protocol is in principle fair, since all the stations have the same…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 I. Tinnirello , L. Giarré , G. Neglia

While smartphones and WiFi networks are bringing many positive changes to people's lives, they are susceptible to traffic analysis attacks, which infer user's private information from encrypted traffic. Existing traffic analysis attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Xiaoguang Yang , Yong Huang , Junli Guo , Dalong Zhang , Qingxian Wang

Most of the sensor network applications need real time communication and the need for deadline aware real time communication is becoming eminent in these applications. These applications have different dead line requirements also. The real…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-12-30 Mary Cherian , T. R. Gopalakrishnan Nair

In real networks complex topological features are often associated with a diversity of interactions as measured by the weights of the links. Moreover, spatial constraints may as well play an important role, resulting in a complex interplay…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-11-18 Luca Dall'Asta , Alain Barrat , Marc Barthelemy , Alessandro Vespignani

Inspired by the Statistical Physics of complex networks, wireless multihop ad hoc communication networks are considered in abstracted form. Since such engineered networks are able to modify their structure via topology control, we search…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-11-11 Wolfram Krause , Jan Scholz , Martin Greiner

WLAN devices have become a fundamental component of nowadays network deployments. However, even though traditional networking applications run mostly unchanged over wireless links, the actual interaction between these applications and the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-02-04 Marc Portoles-Comeras , Albert Cabellos-Aparicio , Josep Mangues-Bafalluy , Jordi Domingo-Pascual

Mobile wireless network research focuses on scenarios at the extremes of the network connectivity continuum where the probability of all nodes being connected is either close to unity, assuming connected paths between all nodes (mobile ad…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Simon Heimlicher , Merkouris Karaliopoulos , Hanoch Levy , Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos

This paper considers the problem of how to efficiently share a wireless medium which is subject to harsh external interference or even jamming. While this problem has already been studied intensively for simplistic single-hop or unit disk…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-07-30 Adrian Ogierman , Andrea Richa , Christian Scheideler , Stefan Schmid , Jin Zhang

Underwater optical wireless links have limited range and intermittent connectivity due to the hostile aquatic channel impairments and misalignment between the optical transceivers. Therefore, multi-hop communication can expand the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Nasir Saeed , Abdulkadir Celik , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

A sensor network is a collection of wireless devices that are able to monitor physical or environmental conditions. These devices (nodes) are expected to operate autonomously, be battery powered and have very limited computational…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Martin Drozda , Sven Schaust , Helena Szczerbicka

Distributed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), also known as cell-free massive MIMO, has emerged as a promising technology for sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks. This letter introduces an indoor channel measurement campaign…

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In wireless ad hoc networks, distributed nodes can collaboratively form an antenna array for long-distance communications to achieve high energy efficiency. In recent work, Ochiai, et al., have shown that such collaborative beamforming can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Athina P. Petropulu , Lun Dong , H. Vincent Poor

Diffusion-driven instability is a fundamental mechanism underlying pattern formation in spatially extended systems. In almost all existing works, diffusion across the links of the underlying network is modeled through scalar weights,…

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This book chapter identifies various security threats in wireless mesh network (WMN). Keeping in mind the critical requirement of security and user privacy in WMNs, this chapter provides a comprehensive overview of various possible attacks…

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Network coding (NC), in principle, is a Layer-3 innovation that improves network throughput in wired networks for multicast/broadcast scenarios. Due to the fundamental differences between wired and wireless networks, extending NC to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-10 Mohammad H. Firooz , Zhiyong Chen , Sumit Roy , Hui Liu

Data Centers (DCs) are required to be scalable to large data sets so as to accommodate ever increasing demands of resource-limited embedded and mobile devices. Thanks to the availability of recent high data rate millimeter-wave frequency…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-06-12 Ahmad Khonsari , Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi , Abolfazl Diyanat , Hossein Shafiei

We consider two-way interference channels (ICs) where forward and backward channels are ICs but not necessarily the same. We first consider a scenario where there are only two forward messages and feedback is offered through the backward IC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Changho Suh , I-Hsiang Wang , David Tse