Community network (CN) initiatives have been around for roughly two decades,
evangelizing a distinctly different paradigm for building, maintaining, and sharing network …

Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANET) will help to improve traffic safety and efficiency. By
exchanging information between each other, vehicles can warn drivers or even prepare for a …

Vehicular networks and their associated technologies enable an extremely varied plethora
of applications and therefore attract increasing attention from a wide audience. However …

Reputation management systems have been proposed as a cooperation enforcement
solution in ad hoc networks. Typically, the functions of reputation management (evaluation …

Current and future wireless environments are based on the coexistence of multiple networks
supported by various access technologies deployed by different operators. As wireless …

The distributed nature of mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) presents security challenges
and vulnerabilities which sometimes lead to several forms of attacks. To improve the security …

Innovative ways to use ad hoc networking between vehicles are an active research topic
and numerous proposals have been made for applications that make use of it. Due to the …

This paper is concerned with fully distributed reputation-based mechanisms that improve
security in MANETS. We introduce a number of optimisations to the current reputation …

Evaluating and quantifying Reputation stimulates collaboration in Mobile ad hoc Network
(MANET). A MANET is an autonomous network that consists of mobile nodes that …

Les réseaux ad hoc sans fil véhiculaires (VANET) permettent les communications entre
véhicules afin d'augmenter la sécurité routière et d'agrémenter l'expérience de conduite …