Front matter
833
Scalable Group Rekeying for Secure Multicast: A Survey
Sencun Zhu and Sushil Jajodia
838-839
A Note on Modalities for Nonconjunctive Global Predicates
Ajay D. Kshemkalyani
832
A Synchronous Self-stabilizing Minimal Domination Protocol in an Arbitrary Network Graph
Z. Xu, S. T. Hedetniemi, W. Goddard and P. K. Srimani
835
Decomposable Algorithms for Computing Minimum Spanning Tree
Ahmed Khedr and Raj Bhatnagar
836-837
Clock Synchronization Algorithms and Scheduling Issues
Dhruba Basu and Sasikumar Punnekkat
837
Estimating Checkpointing, Rollback and Recovery Overheads
Partha Sarathi Mandal and Krishnendu Mukhopadhyaya
833-835
Analysis of BGP Update Surge during Slammer Worm Attack
Mohit Lad, Xiaoliang Zhao, Beichuan Zhang, Dan Massey and Lixia Zhang
832
TMS: A Scalable Transition Multicast Scheme
Lei Sun, Ke Xu, Weidong Liu and Jianping Wu
828
User Relevancy Improvisation Protocol
K. Satya Sai Prakash and S. V. Raghavan
833
Characterizing Web Workloads – A Transaction-Oriented View
Shubhashis Sengupta
836
Internet Auctions: Some Issues and Problems
Amitava Bagchi and Atul Saroop
837
Transaction Management in Distributed Scheduling Environment for High Performance Database Applications
Sushant Goel, Hema Sharda and David Taniar
837
Gridscape: A Tool for the Creation of Interactive and Dynamic Grid Testbed Web Portals
Hussein Gibbins and Rajkumar Buyya
836
Agent-Based Fair Load Distribution in Linux Web Server Cluster
Kyeongmo Kang, MinHwan Ok and Myong-soon Park
830-832
Location Management by Movement Prediction Using Mobility Patterns and Regional Route Maps
R. K. Ghosh, Shravan K. Rayanchu and Hrushikesha Mohanty
832
Towards “Always-Connected” Wireless Network: A Framework of Infrastructureless Networks
Zhe Guang Zhou, Prawit Chumchu, Sanchai Rattananon and Aruna Seneviratne
836
Multi-path Transmission Algorithm for End-to-End Seamless Handover across Heterogeneous Wireless Access Networks
Shigeru Kashihara, Katsuyoshi Iida, Hiroyuki Koga, Youki Kadobayashi and Suguru Yamaguchi
829-830
Global Mobility Management: A Three Level Architecture for Next Generation Wireless Networks
Iti Saha Misra, Mohuya Chakraborty, Debasish Saha, Amitava Mukherjee and Billawdeep Deb, et al.
837-838
Distributed Certified E-mail System for Mobile Users
Jong-Phil Yang, Chul Sur and Kyung Hyune Rhee
836
Models of Self-Stabilization and Sensor Networks
Ted Herman
833
Performance of a Collaborative Target Detection Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks
Kai Li and Asis Nasipuri
833
Improving End-to-End Delay through Load Balancing with Multipath Routing in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks Using Directional Antenna
Siuli Roy, Dola Saha, Somprakash Bandyopadhyay, Tetsuro Ueda and Shinsuke Tanaka
828-829
A Power-Efficient MAC Protocol with Two-Level Transmit Power Control in Ad Hoc Network Using Directional Antenna
Dola Saha, Siuli Roy, Somprakash Bandyopadhyay, Tetsuro Ueda and Shinsuke Tanaka
829
Achieving Routing Based Medium Access Fairness in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks
Hend Koubaa and Farid Naït-Abdesselam
835-836
Various Distributed Shortest Path Routing Strategies for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Subhankar Dhar, Michael Q. Rieck, Sukesh Pai and Eun Jik Kim
830
Secure Mobile Computing
Dharma P. Agrawal, Hongmei Deng, Rajani Poosarla and Sugata Sanyal
835
Towards Privacy Preserving Distributed Association Rule Mining
Mafruz Zaman Ashrafi, David Taniar and Kate Smith
829
Performance Improvement of the Contract Net Protocol Using Instance Based Learning
Umesh Deshpande, Arobinda Gupta and Anupam Basu
830
A Hybrid Model for Optimising Distributed Data Mining
Shonali Krishnaswamy, Arkady Zaslavsky and Seng Wai Loke
832
Local Decision Procedures for Avoiding the Tragedy of Commons
Sabyasachi Saha and Sandip Sen
836
Tuning the Quality Parameters of a Firewall to Maximize Net Benefit
Wei T. Yue and Amitava Bagchi
835
Load Sharing in a Transcoding Cluster
Jiani Guo and Laxmi Bhuyan
833
A Token Based Distributed Algorithm for Medium Access in an Optical Ring Network
A. K. Turuk, R. Kumar and R. Badrinath
830
An Efficient Technique for Dynamic Lightpath Establishment in Survivable Local/Metro WDM Optical Networks
Swarup Mandal, Debashis Saha, Sougata Bera, Shubhadip Ray and Ambuj Mahanti
839
Algorithms for Provisioning Survivable Multicast Sessions against Link Failures in Mesh Networks
Narendra K. Singhal and Biswanath Mukherjee
829
A New Protection Model to Provide Availability-Guaranteed Service for Reliable Optical WDM Networks
Yurong (Grace) Huang, Wushao Wen, Jonathan P. Heritage and Biswanath Mukherjee
833
Distributed Connection Control Protocols in All-Optical WDM Networks
Guo Yinghua and Yuan Cong