Status of This Memo This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract This document specifies the IP F...

Coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19 is a zoonosis, which means that contaminates from the animals to humans. Since it very highly epizootic, has forced public health experts implement smartphone-based applications trace its swift transmission trajectory as well affected individuals. For this, individuals’ personally identifiable information utilized. Nonetheless, these may hamper privacy and c...

This paper analyzes the rationale for regulation of privacy in two new models of why firms collect consumer information. Prior work has focused on the use of consumer information for price discrimination. In this paper, I consider two different rationales. In the product improvement model, I assume that collecting consumer information allows firms to improve their product. In the supplemental g...

We propose a novel distributed medium access control scheme called opportunistic ALOHA for reachback in sensor networks with mobile agents. Each sensor transmits its information with a probability that is a function of its channel state (propagation channel gain). This function called transmission control is then designed under the assumption that orthogonal CDMA is employed to transmit informa...