The increasing growth of low-power wireless networks in real-world implementations has intensified the need to develop well-organized key network building blocks. Neighbor discovery, link quality measurement and data collection are among the fundamental building blocks of network initialization

This paper presents a wireless multicast tree construction algorithm, SWIM (Source-initiated WIreless Multicast). SWIM constructs a tree on which each multicast destination has the minimum possible depth (number of hops from the nearest source). It is proved that SWIM is fully distributed, with a

Intrusion detection/prevention systems (IDSs/IPSs) heavily rely on signature databases and pattern matching (PM) techniques to identify network attacks. The engines of such systems often employ traditional PM algorithms to search for telltale patterns in network flows. The observations that real

In many emerging wireless sensor network scenarios, the use of a fixed infrastructure of base stations for data collection is either infeasible, or prohibitive in terms of deployment and maintenance costs. Instead, we consider the use of mobile devices (i.e. smartphones) carried by people

development, initial validation and visualization. The main purpose of MTM is to simulate the main physical elements that can be found in a mobile network while allowing a MANET routing protocol operate concurrently being unaware of the underlying simulation. 1.