Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks (WSANs) are expected to have 1 a key role in the realization of the future Internet of Things that will connect to the 2 Internet any kind of devices, living beings, and things. A number of standards have 3 been released over the last years to support their development and encourage inter4 operability. In addition IETF has defined a set of protocols to allo...

Standard search theory assumes that individuals know, with certainty, how they compare to competing searchers in terms of ability. In contrast, we hypothesize that searchers are uncertain about relative ability, with important implications for search behavior. We test our hypotheses in a laboratory experiment. The first main finding is that people are substantially uncertain about whether they ...

Socio-economics aims to understand the interplay between the society, economy, markets, institutions, self-interest, and moral commitments. It is a multi-disciplinary field using methods from economics, psychology, sociology, history, and even anthropology. Socio-economics of networks have been studied for over 30 years, but mostly in the context of social networks instead of the underlying com...

We describe a novel link layer architecture to enhance the performance of Internet protocols over wireless links. The degraded performance of these links on the Internet and the inadequacy of existing approaches of overcoming these problems in a protocol independent manner, motivate our solution. Our link layer provides multiple services and performance feedback to higher layers, thus supportin...

Here, an accelerated phantom model for the late universe is explored, which is free from future singularity. It is interesting to see that this model exhibits strong curvature for all time in future, unlike models with 'big-rip singularity' showing high curvature near singularity time only. So, quantum gravity effects grow dominant as time increases in late universe too. More importantly, it is...

The phenomenal increase in network capacity to hundreds and thousands of Gbits/s in the core as well as Gbits/s at the access, is soon to witness stupendous amounts of packets that have to be processed and switched at amplifying line rates. Looking into the future, we address the need for the integration of packets of larger size, called XLFrames (XLFs), into the future Internet framework. This...

This paper develops search-theoretic models in which it is individually rational for firms to engage in obfuscation. It considers oligopoly competition between firms selling a homogeneous good to a population of rational consumers who incur search costs to learn each firm’s price. Search costs are endogenized: obfuscation is equated with unobservable actions that make it more time-consuming to ...

This paper examines the interplay of social and temporal distance on consumers’ responses to others’ recommendations. Drawing on research on psychological distance and the “fit” literature, the authors hypothesize that others’ recommendation is more persuasive when the construal levels associated with both social distance and temporal distance are congruent. Specifically, the authors first demo...

The current design of Mobile IPv4 and Mobile IPv6 protocols doesn’t provide the compatibility between networks of different versions. A Network Mobility(NEMO) protocol also provides the limited mobility in IPv6 networks. However, we can easily expect that the current IPv4 network will coexist with IPv6 network in the near future internet environment. So, in this paper, we propose the architectu...

The past decade has seen many proposals for future Internet architectures. Most of these proposals require substantial changes to the current networking infrastructure and enduser devices, resulting in a failure to move from theory to real-world deployment. This paper describes one possible strategy for bootstrapping the initial deployment of future Internet architectures by focusing on providi...