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TCP is an important communication protocol as more and more multimedia technologies are deployed in the Internet nowadays. However, existing TCP control mechanism has some shortcomings in supporting real-time streaming traffic. Although UDP can be used as an alternative to transmit real-time application data, it lacks congestion control. Introducing a new TCP-friendly protocol that supports the multimedia...
Quality of Service (QoS) is one of the most active research areas in networking. The most fundamental requirement for QoS routing is the ability to find and maintain a network path that provides the required network resources between two or more nodes. In this paper, we present a distributed collaborative multicast QoS routing architecture that uses a semi-greedy probing heuristic to quickly find...
Random Early Detection (RED) is recommended as the congestion avoidance mechanism in packet switched networks in RFC2309 and has become the focus of much research into congestion control. Furthermore, RED and WRED are the AQM schemes most widely deployed in commercial Internet routers, such as Cisco and Juniper routers. This paper describes an analytical approach that models RED and WRED schemes using...
This paper presents a middleware platform for the provision of services in disconnected MANETs, focusing on service invocation. This middleware exploits content-based communications (through a publish/subscribe paradigm) and employs a store-carry-and-forward approach for the network-wide opportunistic dissemination of messages. Service invocation is implemented on top of these communication features...
We propose PRoPHET+, a routing scheme for opportunistic networks designed to maximize successful data delivery rate and minimize transmission delay. PRoPHET+ computes a deliverability value to determine the routing path for packets. Deliverability is calculated using a weighted function consisting of evaluations of nodes' buffer size, power, location, popularity, and the predictability value from...
Recently, multi-paths solutions have been proposed to improve the quality-of-service (QoS) in communication networks (CNs). This paper addresses the problem to obtain the λ-edge-disjoint-path-set (λ DP/B) with maximum bandwidth (λ DPB), for λ≥1. λDP/B is useful for applications that require maximum bandwidth for data transmission, such as video conferencing, video-on-demand, large file downloads and...
New transport protocols continue to appear as alternatives to the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). Many of these are designed to address TCP's inefficiency in operating over paths with a high bandwidth-delay product (BDP). To test these new protocols, especially comparatively, and to understand their interactions, extensions to the ns2 simulator allow real code from the linux kernel to be used...
A wireless body area sensor network (WBASN) is a wireless networking technology that interconnects tiny nodes with sensing capabilities in, on or around a human body. The vital-sign information collected by these sensors can then be used by care-givers to assess the health of a patient. Therefore, it is necessary to provide reliable communication services to prioritized WBASN data streams with quality...
A schedule-based approach, such as TDMA, is more efficient than a Contention-based approach in terms of energy saving by switching sensors into sleeping mode. However it does not use the transmission media effectively as each timeslot is dedicated to a sensor and therefore cannot be used by others should it be idle. Moreover a schedule-based approach requires a central node to manage and broadcast...
Network layer indications are not readily available upon a link change; therefore, general dependence on the network layer may introduce unnecessary delays due to network layer signaling for a simple link layer handover. If information could be gathered at link layer to determine the need for network layer signaling, then both the delay and signaling load could be really improved over the current...
Due to the Recent development in wireless technology, wireless sensor networks attract researchers' attention because of their applicability in many fields for effective collection of sensing data with low cost. Wireless sensor networks have many applications; some of the applications are military application, environmental application and flood detection. For example, in an environmental application...
Typical real-time routing data dissemination schemes employ 1-hop transmission speed based on the 1-hop lookahead manner that proactively obtains information of 1-hop neighbor nodes and selects one that satisfies a desired delivery speed as next hop. To improve performance of 1-hop lookahead based real-time routing protocols, THVR (Two-Hop Velocity-based Routing) is proposed. THVR reduces deadline...
The past few years have seen an increasing interest in the development of vehicular ad hoc networks resulting in many routing protocols proposals. Scalability issues in such networks are attracting increasing attention these days. To improve data delivery performance in large scale networks, we propose SIFT, a trajectory based routing scheme that requires sparse infrastructure and rely on low quality...
We present a new protocol to cluster nodes of wireless networks. Our protocol ensures reliable message transmission in spite of collisions and transmission losses. We first present a geometric-probabilistic model to predict the optimal range for maximizing one-hop broadcast coverage in wireless networks as a function of range, sending rate and density. We use the above model to design a scalable clustering...
Achieving QoS objective in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) that deals with multimedia information is of paramount importance in the WSN research community. From the application point of view, meeting application specific QoS constraints is equally important as designing energy efficient embedded circuitry for WSN nodes. Among various WSN communication protocol stack, the transport layer functionality...
Providing Internet access on buses allow people to read news, check emails, watch sport games, and hence can greatly improve the quality of people's life. This paper proposes an adaptive routing protocol, called R-BUS for a bus network. R-BUS selects a route based on the link's lifetime and its communication signal quality. The protocol takes the bus mobility and the radio propagation model into account...
In peer-to-peer (P2P) applications, a group of multiple peer processes (peers) are required to cooperate with each other in a distributed manner. Messages sent by peers have to be causally delivered to every peer in a group. Due to the message overhead O(n) for the number n of peers, the vector clock cannot be used to causally deliver messages in a scalable group. On the other hand, the linear clock...
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