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Epidemic protocols belong to a class of routing paradigm that have wide ranging applications in Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) due to their simplicity, low delays, and little to no reliance on special nodes. To this end, a comprehensive study of their performance will serve as an important guide to future protocol designers. Unfortunately, to date, there is no work that studies epidemic routing protocols...
In this paper, we propose a new kind of P2P traffic control technique, called Netpherd exploiting the peer selection adaptation (i.e., preferring peers who are likely to provide better performance). Netpherd tries to enable the peers to communicate with the peers of the local domain by manipulating network performance (i.e., adding an artificial delay to the inter-domain traffic) at network device...
Owed to its regular structure and rich interweaving, facilitating simple and efficient dissemination and aggregation of data, the hypercube is an effective and popular interconnection network for parallel and distributed computing. Its short paths make it suitable for latency critical real-time applications such as live streaming or estimation of system state vectors, including object tracking or...
In recent years, social interest in viewing consumer-generated media (CGM) contents has been rapidly growing, so their network traffic has been increasing considerably. To cope with this new increase in network traffic, we propose a tag caching router (TCR) architecture that supports folksonomies-based search and content caching for CGM content. Folksonomies are key words or metadata attached to the...
In this paper, we consider a wireless cellular network capable of supporting Machine-to-Machine (M2M) applications. According to the recent IEEE 802.16p proposals, a wireless M2M device may act as an aggregation point and communicate data packets on behalf of the other M2M devices, which may lack a cellular interface or have a poor communication link to the network. We propose a client relay scheme...
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have proliferated significantly in recent years. Nowadays they are used in many fields, such as military, environmental and industrial. Reliability and low latency are desirable characteristics of many WSN applications. In particular, time-critical WSN applications must be able to act according to the observed changes in the environment as quickly as possible, assuring...
Peer-to-peer overlays for Networked Virtual Environments have recently gained much research interest, resulting in a variety of different approaches for spatial information dissemination. Although designed for the same purpose, the evaluation methodologies used by particular authors differ widely. This makes any comparison of existing systems difficult, if not impossible. To overcome this problem...
A common assumption in intermittently-connected (or opportunistic) mobile networks is that any contact has enough capacity to transfer the required amount of data. Although such an assumption is reasonable for analytical purposes and when contents are small, it does not hold anymore when nodes produce contents that are larger than the capacity of a contact. In such a case, nodes must slice data and...
Improving latency is the key to a successful online game-playing experience. With the use of multiple servers along with a well-provisioned network it is possible to reduce the latency. Given a network of servers, game clients, and a desired delay bound, we have designed algorithms to determine the subnetwork of servers whose cardinality is minimal. We have considered the cases wherein the subnetwork...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) based content distribution networks (CDNs), e.g., BitTorrent, are widely used in the today's Internet. Since all peers interested in a specific content provide storage and upload capacity those CDNs facilitate a cheap and easy distribution of large amounts of data. However, they generate a lot of costs for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) as normal users also act as a source for...
Safety critical applications of IEEE 802.15.4 networks require autonomous network reconfiguration and dynamic meshing in case of node failures or changing environmental influences. In contrast to the classical approach of wireless sensor networks, this paper focuses on the development of enhanced network services like multimedia transmissions in a gas concentration monitoring scenario. Therefore,...
In this paper, the performance of IPv4 and IPv6 are compared for both Client-Server and Peer-Peer networks. For both networks, IPv4 produced higher bandwidth for TCP protocol. For UDP, IPv4 and IPv6 showed insignificant bandwidth differences except for packet size of 384 bytes where IPv4 had better performance in client-server environment.
In order to improve transmission throughput of a multi-hop wireless network, many efforts have been made in recent years to reduce traffic and hence transmission collisions by constructing backbone networks with minimum size. However, many other important issues need to be considered. Instead of simply minimizing the number of backbone nodes or supporting some isolated network features, in this work,...
A unified framework to achieve optimal network lifetime, utility and delay-robustness tradeoff, for wireless multimedia sensor networks, is proposed. Using delay-robustness gives the flexibility to achieve any desired level of delay QoS provisioning. We have employed sensitivity analysis to define an appropriate objective function for delay-robustness. This is achieved by capturing delay-robustness...
Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have already shown high-potential to deal with the huge heterogeneity of user requirements and network resources, due to the flexibility and self-organization capabilities of their infrastructure. In this scope, we provide a novel context-based multi-virtual architecture, to be applied to wireless-friendly mesh networking, and to support user requirements on demand by...
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...
New service providers, completely separated from the Internet Service Providers (ISP), are growing today in the Internet scenario to create new multimedia services through the P2P approach. These providers are manifesting great interest not only for classical multimedia applications, like video streaming and video on demand, but also for other applications, like for example video-conferencing, multi-party...
In this paper we propose SWOR, an architecture to deliver Scalable Video Coding (SVC) contents over P2P network. SWOR architecture is based on twofold mechanisms: (1) organization of peers in Small-World (SW) overlay networks, (2) delivering SVC content using push-pull mechanism. SWOR is evaluated and compared with CoolStreaming/DONet (CS) on QoS metrics using NS-2 simulator. Performance evaluation...
Wireless personal area networks (WPAN) are wireless sensor networks (WSN) designed for allowing a low-cost, low-power and short-range wireless communication. The IEEE 802.15.4 is the WPAN standard which satisfies these features and facilitates diverse self-configuring operation processes for adapting to different environments and applications. One of these processes is responsible for resolving the...
Nowadays, Internet still lacks of adequate support for QoS-sensitive applications, such as VoIP, Videoconference, and Video-on-Demand. In a large extent, this is due to the fact that Internet was originally designed to provide only a best-effort packet delivery service. In recent years, Service Overlay Networks (SONs) have emerged as a profitable way to leverage these issues without changing the underlying...
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