— A new congestion control protocol is presented, analyzed and experimentally evaluated. It consists of the standard inner-loop ACK-clock and a novel outer-loop adjusting the win...
A multi-party contract signing (MPCS) protocol allows a set of parties to exchange messages with each other to arrive in a state in which either each of them has a pre-agreed cont...
Various Internet applications involve multiple parties and usually adopt a one-to-many communication paradigm (multicast). The presence of multiple receivers in a multicast session...
: Fair exchange protocols allow both or neither of two parties to obtain the other's items, and this property is essential in e-commerce. In this paper, we construct an optimi...
—Fairness is an important issue when accessing a shared wireless channel. With fair scheduling, it is possible to allocate bandwidth in proportion to weights of the packet flows ...