Abstract: A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a collection of mobile nodes interconnected by wireless media. Several protocols have been proposed to manage multiple access to the shared wireless medium ...

Backoff algorithms have been introduced to improve network performance by reducing collisions over networks, especially in large ones. The binary exponential back off used in the standard IEEE 802.11 ...

A new breed of point-of-sale malware has been found in several recent attacks, and experts say that the tool, known as Backoff, has extensive data stealing and exfiltration capabilities, including ...

This is a Go port of the exponential backoff algorithm from Google's HTTP Client Library for Java. Exponential backoff is an algorithm that uses feedback to multiplicatively decrease the rate of some ...

The Department of Homeland Security sounded an alarm last week about this young strain of malicious software. The agency directed its warning mainly at retailers, but banks are also vulnerable to ...