Open System Interconnection (OSI) Protocols
White Papers The Open System Interconnection (OSI) protocol suite is comprised of numerous standard protocols that are based on the OSI reference model.The OSI specifications were conceived and implemented by two international standards organizations: the...
[August 16, 2003, 1:31]
MSDN Webcast: Protocols for Maximizing Agility (Level 200)
White Papers This webcast shows how increased agility can be achieved with any group by using a small set of interpersonal protocols, called "The Core Protocols" by McCarthy Technologies. The presenters of this webcast describe "The Core Protocols" in detail...
[September 6, 2008, 1:01]
A Comparative Study of Routing Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks
White Papers This paper makes a performance comparison of three sensor network routing protocols, namely, Rumor routing, Stream Enable Routing (SER) and SPIN. Due to the limited processing power, and finite power available to each sensor node, regular ad hoc...
[April 23, 2009, 1:24]
Authenticity by Typing for Security Protocols
White Papers This paper proposes a new method to check authenticity properties of cryptographic protocols. First, code up the protocol in the spi-calculus of Abadi and Gordon. Second, specify authenticity properties by annotating the code with correspondence...
[December 9, 2006, 0:00]
What Does Using TCP as an Evaluation Tool Reveal About MANET Routing Protocols?
White Papers Consequently, most past research evaluating the performance of MANET routing protocols has concentrated on using CBR traffic over UDP for evaluation. This paper distinguishes practical use of TCP from use of TCP for evaluation purposes, and ex...
[December 20, 2007, 0:01]
Comparing Energy-Saving MAC Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks
White Papers This paper present a study on the energy saved by two MAC protocols optimized for wireless sensor networks, S-MAC and T-MAC, in comparison to standard CSMA/CA. It also reports on the effects of low-power listening, a physical layer optimization, in...
[May 12, 2006, 1:00]
Routing Protocols Concepts
White Papers The JUNOS routing protocol process supports a wide variety of routing protocols, including Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Routing Information Protocol (RIP), Routing Information Protocol Next...
[January 8, 2008, 1:36]
Provably Secure Ubiquitous Systems: Universally Composable RFID Authentication Protocols
White Papers This paper examines two unlinkably anonymous, simple RFID identification protocols that require only the ability to evaluate hash functions and generate random values, and that are provably secure against Byzantine adversaries.
[May 10, 2006, 1:00]
Security Issues Around the Deployment of VoIP and Multimedia Protocols in Wireless and Firewalled Environments
White Papers This has increased the prevalence of technologies such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and multimedia protocols such as video-conferencing, web-casting and Instant Messaging. The increase of geographically dispersed users and telecommuting...
[October 6, 2006, 1:00]
Covert Channels in Internet Protocols: A Survey
White Papers With the widespread adoption of the Internet the TCP/IP suite of protocols have become pervasive, and therefore an attractive target for covert channel exploitation. This paper gives a brief overview of covert channels in communication networks...
[December 6, 2007, 0:01]
Medium Access Control Protocols for Ad Hoc Wireless Networks: A Survey
White Papers In these networks, the Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols are responsible for coordinating the access from active nodes. These protocols are of significant importance since the wireless communication channel is inherently prone to errors and...
[July 20, 2007, 1:00]
Secure Anonymous RFID Authentication Protocols
White Papers Numerous authentication protocols for RFID systems were proposed in an attempt to prevent unauthorized tracking and monitoring, impersonation or cloning, and information leakage. This paper proposes three anonymous RFID authentication protocols and...
[May 10, 2006, 0:00]
Types and Effects for Asymmetric Cryptographic Protocols
White Papers This paper presents the first type and effect system for proving authenticity properties of security protocols based on asymmetric cryptography. The most significant new features of the type system are - a separation of public types (for data...
[December 9, 2006, 0:00]
From WiFi to WiMAX: Techniques for High-Level IP Reuse Across Different OFDM Protocols
White Papers Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) has become the preferred modulation scheme for both broadband and high bitrate digital wireless protocols because of its spectral efficiency and robustness against multipath interference.
[April 22, 2009, 1:24]
Bidding Protocols for Deploying Mobile Sensors
White Papers This paper designs two bidding protocols to guide the movement of mobile sensors in such sensor networks to increase the coverage to a desirable level. In the protocols, static sensors detect coverage holes locally by using Voronoi diagrams and bid...
[August 10, 2007, 10:56]
Assessing the Use of Ad-Hoc Routing Protocols in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks
White Papers This paper applies, compares and evaluates energy parameters in mobile Wireless Sensor Networks using traditional IP ad-hoc protocols. Although, traditionally, mobility has not been supported in Wireless Sensor Networks, many applications in these...
[April 3, 2009, 1:22]
Traffic Engineering With Traditional IP Routing Protocols
White Papers This paper describe an approach to intradomain traffic engineering that works within the existing deployed base of Interior Gateway Protocols (IGPs), such as Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) and Intermediate System-Intermediate System (IS-IS).
[July 11, 2008, 1:02]
Optimized Large File Access in Storage Clusters Using Common TCP/IP-Based File Transfer Protocols
White Papers This paper takes a close look at the performance of the TCP/IP stack and some common file transfer protocols. Before any real life tests were performed, models were created to predict what to expect of these protocols.
[December 27, 2007, 0:01]
Performance Comparison of Wireless Mobile Ad-Hoc Network Routing Protocols
White Papers The Efficient routing protocols can provide significant benefits to mobile ad hoc networks, in terms of both performance and reliability. Many routing protocols for such networks have been proposed so far.
[April 3, 2009, 1:22]
RFID Based Localization for a Miniaturized Robotic Platform for Wireless Protocols Evaluation
White Papers The proliferation of wireless-enabled portable computing devices has spurred a growing need for efficient and powerful networking protocols. The key challenge in the development of robust wireless networking protocols is an ability to conduct...
[April 14, 2009, 0:00]



