To construct a large commodity clustec a hierarchical network is generally adopted for connecting the host muchines, where a Gigabit backbone switch connects a few commodity switc...
Abstract: We present PERT, a power-efficient scheme to deliver real-time data packets in sensor networks. Time-sensitive sensor data is common in applications such as hazard monito...
—Increasing demand to transmit real-time data over packet-switched networks calls for quality-of-service support from the underlying network. Deadline-based networks were develop...
In the recent years, there has been a growing interest in broadband satellite networks. Broadband satellite networks are designed to provide the required qualify of service (QoS) ...
— End-to-end congestion control mechanisms such as those in TCP are not enough to prevent congestion collapse in the Internet (for starters, not all applications might be willing...