Strengthening democracy-based interfaith networks

News blogs: strengthening democracy through conflict prevention

Purpose To offer greater insight in the role of blogs in the creation of a more transparent news media system and a more democratic political reality. Design/methodology/approach Framing theory is employed as a conceptual tool to re-interpret existing evidence of the performance of news blogs during situations of political conflict and war. A theoretical analysis is developed setting out the pr...

Strengthening Password-based Authentication

Hyperbolicity Measures "Democracy" in Real-World Networks

In this work, we analyze the hyperbolicity of real-world networks, a geometric quantity that measures if a space is negatively curved. We provide two improvements in our understanding of this quantity: first of all, in our interpretation, a hyperbolic network is "aristocratic", since few elements "connect" the system, while a non-hyperbolic network has a more "democratic" structure with a large...

Strengthening Real-Time Support in Wireless Networks

Wireless networks exhibit unpredictable and varying connection reliability as a result of node mobility and resultant changes in wireless signal propagation. Wireless signal propagation not only depends on the receiver’s mobility but also on unrelated objects both mobile and fixed in the environment. In such dynamic and unknown environments, the provision of real-time communication represents a...

Strengthening the security of cognitive packet networks

Route selection in Cognitive Packet Networks (CPN) occurs continuously for active flows and is driven by the users’ choice of a Quality of Service (QoS) goal. Because routing occurs concurrently to packet forwarding, CPN flows are able to better deal with unexpected variations in network status, while still achieving the desired QoS. Random neural networks (RNN) play a key role in CPN routing a...