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Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) consist of multiple, distributed nodes each with limited resources. With their strict resource constraints and application-specific characteristics, WSNs contain many challenging trade-offs. This paper proposes a bio-inspired load balancing approach, based on pheromone signalling mechanisms, to solve the trade-off between service availability and energy consumption...
Cooperative systems supporting remote teams are based on distributed software architectures. Underneath most of these architectures is the Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4), which acts as technological backbone. Despite its strengths, the IPv4 also entails challenges for developers of such systems for getting system messages through firewalls without increasing latency and bringing delays for users...
Cloud computing technologies can be used to store a tremendous amount of learning resources, including educational videos. However, it is difficult for users to retrieve relevant teaching material in cloud environments by submitting a few keywords. We propose a search mechanism based on social networks. Furthermore, the issues of availability and trustworthiness have to be considered in teaching material...
The delay and bandwidth are the two most fundamental factors in the network. In the delay and bandwidth constrained circumstances, we present a problem of maximizing the number of nodes and then prove the problem is NP-complete. Next, we propose a comprehensive evaluation of delay and bandwidth heuristic algorithm. According to the heuristic algorithm, distributed application layer multicast algorithms...
Several studies have shown that the BGP protocol adopts a special routing policy such that the default BGP route is usually not the best choice in terms of path length or quality of service. In order to send the traffic through the shortest AS paths by overlay routing, we have to place overlay nodes at several critical points along such paths. Otherwise, these AS paths will never be available to end...
The ultimate success of the Wireless Mesh Network paradigm (WMN) in large scale deployments depends on the ability to test it in real world scenarios. A typical application scenario which is worth to be investigated in such a context is peer-to-peer traffic management. The creation of large scale testbeds for evaluating wireless mesh technologies and protocols, and for testing their ability to support...
BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing protocol, which overcomes the bottleneck of server bandwidth by allowing peers to share the downloaded data directly. However, the greedy and non-cooperative behavior (such as leeching) of individual peer can degrade the performance of P2P significantly. In this paper, we optimize the non-cooperative P2P network from the game theory point of view. Specifically,...
The peer-to-peer networking concept has revolutionized the cost structure of Internet data dissemination by making large scale content delivery with low server cost feasible. In a peer-to-peer network, the total upload capacity increases with the number of down loaders instead of staying constant as in a client-server architecture, making it highly scalable. Despite of its importance, the problem...
The goal of this paper is to minimize service disruption, a unique phenomenon in peer-to-peer (P2P) streaming system and the major contributing factor to degrade user experience. In order to improve its streaming quality and stability, a P2P system should select peers with abundant bandwidth resource and prospect longevity as the parents of other peers. Towards this end, we propose PRW (peer resilient...
Streaming services have been gaining much popularity in the Internet. The widespread adoption of broadband residential access enables individual users to use new bandwidth demanding services. Peer-to-Peer (P2P) multicasting approach using an overlay network to provide communication between peers is a valuable proposal for streaming since it provides rapid deployment at relatively low cost. Most of...
Peer to peer based live multimedia streaming systems over the Internet have been gaining popularity these days because they can be easily deployed without router based IP multicast capabilities. However, the peers frequently join and leave the system so that some peers may experience service disruptions, which degrade the overall quality and reputation of the services. In this situation, a hybrid...
The problem of maximizing the sum-rate of a MIMO interference channel is investigated. Each receiver node is assumed to perform single user detection by treating interference from other users as Gaussian noise. It is assumed that all the users share a single frequency band and no pre-coding is performed over time. The sum-rate maximization in such a setup is a longstanding open problem due to its...
When shortest path routing is employed in large scale multi-hop wireless networks, nodes located near the center of the network have to perform disproportionate amount of relaying for others. To solve the problem, various divergent routing schemes are used which route the data on center-avoiding divergent routing paths. Though they achieve better load balancing, overall relaying is increased significantly...
In this paper, we study an opportunistic subchannel scheduling problem for the relay-based OFDMA cellular network where relay stations (RSs) can perform opportunistic network coding with downlink and uplink sessions of a mobile station (MS). In wireless networks, network coding is one of promising techniques to improve network performance in various aspects. However, previous studies did not provide...
Massively multi-user virtual environments (MMVEs)are becoming increasingly popular with millions of users. Typically, commercial implementations rely on client/server architectures for managing the game state and use message passing mechanisms to communicate state changes to the clients. We have developed the Typed Grid Object Sharing (TGOS)service providing data sharing of in-memory data. TGOS aims...
This paper investigates the performance effects of packet depletion on multihop wireless networks. The resulting capacity usage inefficiencies of link assigned schedules are shown even at the maximum supportable uniform network load. Hybrid node-link assignment is employed to extend transmission rights, allowing nodes to transmit on sets of reserve links when the primary scheduled link experiences...
We study the benefits and trade-off of using scheduled lightpaths for traffic adaption. We propose a network planning model, which allows lightpaths to slide within its desired timing window with no penalty on the optimization objective, and to slide beyond its desired timing window with a decreasing tolerance level. Our model quantitatively measures the timing satisfaction or violation. We apply...
In wireless sensor networks, the nodes near the sink suffer from heavy traffic load. The recent progresses in physical layer make multi-packet reception (MPR) feasible, which may alleviate the suffering nodes. In this paper, we utilize MPR to improve the throughput of wireless sensor networks while maintain the fairness requirement for each sensor. Firstly, we formulate an optimization problem for...
Mobile Ad Hoc networks (MANETs) are gaining increased interest due to their wide range of potential applications in civilian and military sectors. The self-control, self-organization, topology dynamism, and bandwidth limitation of the wireless communication channel make implementation of MANETs a challenging task. Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) are a special kind of MANETs that aims at providing...
In this paper, we investigate the maximization of the amount of gathered data in a clustered wireless sensor network (WSN). The amount of gathered data is maximized by (1) choosing the optimal transmit power, and (2) selecting the optimal cluster head. For problem (1), we find closed-form solutions for the optimal or near optimal transmit power of cluster members (CM). For problem (2), we propose...
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