For efficient Internet Connectivity in MANETs, multiple gateways and potentially multi-homing and hand-over need to be supported. We compare how default routes and tunneling to gateways support this. We find that tunneling is more efficient and flexible compared to default routes. In fact, we show that default routes will not operate correctly in some situations, particularly when there are mul...

As nuclear families have become increasingly less stable over the past quarter century, married couples have been faced with the difficult task of negotiating the terms by which marriage is ended. For parents, divorce involves questions revolving around the care and sustenance of children. In this paper we investigate whether observed divorce settlements indicate that parents make trade-offs in...

This Essay proceeds in four steps. Part I summarizes the quantitative evidence on the pattern of escalation and outcomes of more than 600 GATT/WTO disputes from 1948 through 1999. Part II elaborates on our theory of settlement bargaining within the context of an institution lacking enforcement power and shows how the hypotheses are consistent with the evidence introduced earlier. Part III discu...

The problem of QoS Routing for MANET posses several challenges that must be addressed. To select the most optimal route from source to destination, one has to choose from a set of routes with the corresponding quality of connectivity and resources. A rationale for multiple routes is presented. We argued that QoS routing protocol should exploit the rich non-disjoint node connectivity over disjoi...