Mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) is a dynamic collection of mobile computers without the need for any existing infrastructure. Nodes in a MANET act as hosts and routers. Designing of robust routing algorithms for MANETs is a challenging task. Disjoint multipath routing protocols address this problem and increase the reliability, security and lifetime of network. However, selecting an optimal multi...

A Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET) is a collection of wireless mobile nodes forming a temporary network without using any centralized access point, infrastructure, or centralized administration. The proposed Adaptive Energy-efficient On-demand Distance Vector routing (AEODV) Protocol for MANETs that is based on the Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV). The AEODV makes significant reduction in t...

introduction: lymphoscintigraphy is imaging of the lymphatic system and has been integrated into the sentinel node mapping procedures. lymphoscintigraphy usually encompasses early or delayed static images. however, immediate dynamic imaging of the lymphatic basins and tumors has also been used as an adjunct lymphoscintigraphy imaging. the aim of this study was to assess the role of early dynami...

Backup utilities for the Windows environment are designed to work with the NTFS file format, but they typically provide only partial compatibility with Alternate Data Streams (ADSs). In particular, computer forensics tools are typically capable of discovering ADSs in the file system under investigation, but not necessarily in the backups of such file systems. We examined a number of commonly us...

Empirical studies report frequent occurrences of path failure in the Internet. In providing resilience to such failures, we propose the computation of alternate backup end-to-end path that is disjoint to the default IP path. This disjoint path is created using transit hubs that can be located at diverse points in the Internet. Transit hubs provide better utilization of network resources. Assumi...

FADI is a complete programming environment that serves the reliable execution of distributed application programs. FADI encompasses all aspects of modern fault-tolerant distributed computing. The built-in usertransparent error detection mechanism covers processor node crashes and hardware transient failures. The mechanism also integrates user-assisted error checks into the system failure model....

An on-line backup function for X-NAS, a clustered NAS system designed for entry-level NAS, has been developed. The on-line backup function can replicate file objects on XNAS to a remote NAS in real-time. It makes use of the virtualized global file system of X-NAS, and sends NFS write operations to both X-NAS and the remote backup NAS at the same time. The performance of the on-line backup funct...

The trend towards self-organization of systems like peer-to-peer or mobile ad hoc networks generates increasing needs for distributed data management, in particular data backup and distributed storage functions that will themselves be self-organized and cooperative. Unfortunately, in such systems, the data stored are exposed to the selfishness (e.g. data discarded because of lack of resources) ...

The wireless sensor networks deployed in hostile environments suffer from a high rate of node failures. Such failures may convert a fully-connected sensor network into multiple disjoint sub-networks, leading to the network partition problem. The placement of relay nodes is the only way to restore the lost connectivity because these devices, compared to the sensor nodes, have a higher energy bac...

Link and node failures are common two fundamental problems that affect operational networks. Hence, protection of communication networks is essential to increase their reliability, performance, and operations. Much research work has been done to protect against link and node failures, and to provide reliable solutions based on pre-defined provision or dynamic restoration of the domain. In this ...