Multi-Homed, Multi-Hop, Wireless Transport The predominant transport protocol on the Internet – TCP – was conceived in 1981 and is used, essentially, unchanged today. However the Internet in 30+ years later is very different: packet losses are not exclusively due…
Light, Efficient Multicast with B.I.E.R. B.I.E.R. (Bit-Indexed Explicit Replication) is a multicast mechanism wherein the source of the multicast data packet (i.e. the ingress router which injects the multicast data packet into a B.I.E.R. domain) explicitly identifies and indicates (by…
Aggregate Signatures for Mutable Messages Many protocols rely on generation, exchange and processing of mutable messages, i.e., they base their correct functioning on the recipient of a control message “trusting” that the originator of the message, as well as any…
LPWAN – Low-Power Wide Area Networks LPWAN is a family of wireless infrastructure technologies for the Internet of Things (IoT), with the goal of “being to the IoT as WiFi was to home networking” – and specifically designed for deployments…