This paper addresses a simple, yet fundamental question in the design of peer-to-peer systems: What does it mean when we say “availability” and how does this understanding imp...
Ranjita Bhagwan, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelke...
This paper reports simulation methods and results for analyzing a self-adjusting Quality of Service (QoS) control scheme for multimedia/telecommunication systems based on resource...
Presently, many distributed multimedia systems adapt to their changing environments and Quality of Service (QoS) requirements by exchanging control and feedback data between server...
This paper illustrates the development of an approximate analytical model for a communication network providing integrated services to a population of mobile users, and presents p...
Marco Ajmone Marsan, Salvatore Marano, Carlo Mastr...
Network calculus is a min-plus system theory which facilitates the efficient derivation of performance bounds for networks of queues. It has successfully been applied to provide e...