Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANETs) are an important communication infrastructure to support emergency and rescue operations. To address the frequent disconnections and network partitions that might occur, we have developed a ...

Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks maintain information about reachable nodes in the routing table. In many application scenarios, human groups play an important role. This is visible at the network level as independent network ...

The coordination and collaboration of the personnel from various organisations involved in a rescue operation is important for a successful operation. Data networks can facilitate effective collaboration by providing an ...

The trends over the recent years show an increase in streaming media transported across the Internet in addition to al- ready abundant web traffic, increasing the need for distri- bution schemes that efficiently handle ...

Mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) provide the technical platform for efficient information sharing in emergency and rescue operations. Some the data present on the scene is highly confidential and requires protection. However, ...

Development of applications and protocols for wireless ad-hoc networks has always been a challenge. Spe-cific characteristics such as frequent topology changes due to nodes moving around, popping up or being turned off, ...

Lately, on-demand streaming multimedia applications have become very popular. Contemporary personal computers can handle the load imposed by such multimedia applications on the client side, but the potentially high number ...