The clustered architecture of a mobile ad hoc network (MANET) has the virtue of keeping the node information locally which is suitable for scalability. Reducing broadcast redundancy in a clustered network can avoid the broadcast storm problem and save scarce resources such as bandwidth and energy. In this paper, we propose an approach that chooses a subset of nodes, called forward node set, to ...

Parallel computing on networks of workstations (NOWs) allows effective use of existing hardware and software. NOWs are often connected using a broadcast medium such as an Ethernet, so it is natural to use broadcast as a communication primitive. However, existing parallel programs usually rely on point-to-point protocols for performing broadcasts since native broadcast schemes (UDP broadcast) do...

A broadcast protocol allows a sender to distribute a message through a point-to-point network to a set of parties, such that (i) all parties receive the same message, even if the sender is corrupted, and (ii) this is the sender’s message, if he is honest. Broadcast protocols satisfying these properties are known to exist if and only if t < n/3, where n denotes the total number of parties, and t...

The resurgence of interest in high frequency (HF) radio may be largely attributed to the success of automation in making HF usable by operators with minimal HF training. Unfortunately, Automatic Link Establishment (ALE) technology opens automated HF networks to possible hostile manipulation. To counter this vulnerability, a scheme called Linking Protection (LP) has been developed and standardiz...

The new paradigm in monetary policymaking gives accent to central banks‘ Independence. It is widely accepted that in modern monetary policymaking, central banks have three key goals: price stability, output stability and financial stability. Recent studies on central bank independence mainly investigate the effects of central bank independence on economic stability. But the effectiveness of cen...

Broadcast has been widely used in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) as a communication means to disseminate information to all reachable nodes. However, the conventional broadcast scheme that broadcast packets omnidirectionally suffers from several drawbacks: excessive amount of redundant traffic, exaggerated interference/contention among neighboring nodes, and limited coverage (as a result of co...