IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Mobile crowd sensing (MCS) is a new paradigm that takes advantage of pervasive mobile devices to efficiently collect data, enabling numerous novel applications. To achieve good service quality for an MCS application, incentive mechanisms are necessary ...

Opportunistic routing, offering relatively efficient and adaptive forwarding in low-duty-cycled sensor networks, generally allows multiple nodes to forward the same packet simultaneously, especially in networks with intensive traffic. Uncoordinated ...

Duty-cycled Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols certainly improve the energy efficiency of wireless networks. However, most of these protocols still suffer from severe degrees of overhearing and idle listening. These two issues prevent optimum energy ...

Fairness among multiple users sharing a common resource is an important criterion in the design and evaluation of scheduling algorithms in networks. Anonymous networking, where sources of transmitted packets are undecipherable to an eavesdropper, ...

Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology has many applications in inventory management, supply chain, product tracking, transportation, and logistics. One research issue of practical importance is to search for a particular group of tags in a ...

A new paradigm in wireless network access is presented and analyzed. In this concept, certain classes of wireless terminals can be turned temporarily into an access point (AP) anytime while connected to the Internet. This creates a dynamic network ...

Today's Internet makes hosts and individual networks inherently insecure because permanent addresses turn destinations into permanent attack targets. This paper describes an Evasive Internet Protocol (EIP), a change to the data plane of the Internet ...

We consider the problem of minimizing the power consumption of IP core networks by means of power aware configuration of the Points of Presence (PoPs), given general traffic demands on the links. Although the problem is in general NP-complete, we give ...

This paper considers a problem where multiple devices make repeated decisions based on their own observed events. The events and decisions at each time-step determine the values of a utility function and a collection of penalty functions. The goal is to ...

With 20 million installs a day [1], third-party apps are a major reason for the popularity and addictiveness of Facebook. Unfortunately, hackers have realized the potential of using apps for spreading malware and spam. The problem is already significant,...

The applicability of analog network coding (ANC) to a wireless network is constrained by several limitations: 1) some ANC schemes demand fine-grained frame-level synchronization, which cannot be practically achieved in a wireless network; 2) others ...

In mobile wireless networks, the emerging proximity-based applications have led to the need for highly effective and energy-efficient neighbor discovery protocols. However, existing works cannot realize the optimal worst-case latency in the symmetric ...

We consider the problem of optimal rate allocation and admission control for adaptive video streaming sessions in wireless networks with user dynamics. The central aim is to achieve an optimal tradeoff between several key objectives: maximizing the ...

We consider a basic content distribution scenario consisting of a single origin server connected through a shared bottleneck link to a number of users each equipped with a cache of finite memory. The users issue a sequence of content requests from a set ...

Physical-layer identification utilizes unique features of wireless devices as their fingerprints, providing authenticity and security guarantee. Prior physical-layer identification techniques on radio frequency identification (RFID) tags require ...

Cooperative communication (CC) for wireless networks has gained a lot of recent interests. It has been shown that CC has the potential to significantly increase the capacity of wireless networks, with its ability of mitigating fading by exploiting ...

With wide application of virtualization technology, tenants are able to access isolated cloud services by renting the shared resources in Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) datacenters. Unlike resources such as CPU and memory, datacenter network, which ...

Network management will benefit from automated tools based upon formal methods. Several such tools have been published in the literature. We present a new formal method for a new tool, Atomic Predicates (AP) Verifier, which is much more time and space ...

Beamforming is a signal processing technique with numerous benefits in wireless communication. Unlike traditional omnidirectional communication, it focuses the energy of the transmitted and/or the received signal in a particular direction. Although ...

Cloud-based radio access networks (C-RAN) have been proposed as a cost-efficient way of deploying small cells. Unlike conventional RANs, a C-RAN decouples the baseband processing unit (BBU) from the remote radio head (RRH), allowing for centralized ...

Recently, in online social networks (OSNs), the least cost influence (LCI) problem has become one of the central research topics. It aims at identifying a minimum number of seed users who can trigger a wide cascade of information propagation. Most of ...

Heterogeneous wireless networks provide varying degrees of network coverage in a multi-tier configuration in which low-powered small cells are used to enhance performance. Due to the ad-hoc deployment of small cells, optimal resource allocation is ...

For general multi-hop queueing networks, delay optimal network control has unfortunately been an outstanding problem. The dynamic backpressure (BP) algorithm elegantly achieves throughput optimality, but does not yield good delay performance in general. ...

Packet classification is one of the major challenges today in designing high-speed routers and firewalls, as it involves sophisticated multi-dimensional searching. Ternary content addressable memory (TCAM) has been widely used to implement packet ...

This paper focuses on the design and analysis of scheduling policies for multi-class queues, such as those found in wireless networks and high-speed switches. In this context, we study the response-time tail under generalized max-weight policies in ...

Adaptive Bit Rate (ABR) streaming has become a popular video delivery technique, credited with improving Quality of Experience (QoE) of videos delivered on wireless networks. Recent independent research reveals video caching in the Radio Access Network (...

Existing secure interdomain routing protocols can verify validity properties about individual routes, such as whether they correspond to a real network path. It is often useful to verify more complex properties relating to the route decision procedure --...

In this paper, we focus on a mobile wireless network comprising a powerful communication center and a multitude of mobile users. We investigate the propagation of latency-constrained content in the wireless network characterized by heterogeneous (time-...

Dramatic mobile data traffic growth has spurred a dense deployment of small cell base stations (SCBSs). Small cells enhance the spectrum efficiency and thus enlarge the capacity of mobile networks. Although SCBSs consume much less power than macro BSs (...

Many algorithms have been introduced to deterministically authenticate Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags, while little work has been done to address scalability issue in batch authentications. Deterministic approaches verify tags one by one, ...