—Internet application performance over wireless links is disappointing, due to wireless impairments and their adverse interactions with higher protocol layers. In order to effect...
This paper presents a performance analysis of best effort support over the MAC protocol proposed in the IEEE 802.16 standard. We focus on the uplink channel since it is the critic...
Victor Rangel, Javier Gomez, Javier Chapa, Miguel ...
Mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) present quite large packet loss bursts due to mobility. In this work we propose two models based on hidden Markov models for estimating packet arri...
Carlos Miguel Tavares Calafate, Pietro Manzoni, Ma...
The design of large-scale, distributed, performance-sensitive systems presents numerous challenges due to their networkcentric nature and stringent quality of service (QoS) requir...
— This work considers the problem of hosting multiple third-party Internet services in a cost-effective manner so as to maximize a provider’s business objective. For this purpo...
Bruno D. Abrahao, Virgilio Almeida, Jussara M. Alm...