Many Internet functions, such as QoS and security, require classification of each packet based on a set of rules. As Internet bandwidth and data transmission rates continue to grow, the available time budget to classify ...

We propose extending the service interface of IP with the ability to carry small payments from the sender to the receiver and to ISPs on the path. This allows an endpoint to purchase improved end to end service for the ...

Local network coding is growing in prominence as a technique to facilitate greater capacity utilization in multi-hop wireless networks. A specific objective of such local network coding techniques has been to explicitly ...

Internet quality of service is required by many applications such as interactive voice and video that could fuel the further growth of the network, but it is not widely available to end-users. While ISPs are providing QoS ...

During the past decade or two, the Internet has witnessed an ever escalating demand for protection against unwanted traffic, including those carrying out malicious attacks. Packet filtering has been universally deployed ...

It is well known that a packet loss in 802.11 can happen either due to collision or an insufficiently strong signal. However, discerning the exact cause of a packet loss, once it occurs, is known to be quite difficult. In ...

Large-scale radio frequency identifer (RFID) systems are being increasingly deployed in many applications such as supply chain automation. An RFID system consists of inexpensive, uniquely-identifiable tags that are mounted ...

Disseminating traffic related information to vehicular users is increasingly becoming a necessity nowadays in the context of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). However, till date there does not exist an efficient ...