Distributed Web-server systems have been widely used to provide effective Internet services. The management of these systems requires dynamic controls of the Web traffic. With the...
Providing Quality of Service (QoS) to inelastic data transmissions in a cost-efficient, highly scalable, and realistic fashion in IP networks remains a challenging research issue....
Krishna Pandit, Jens Schmitt, Martin Karsten, Ralf...
The Differentiated Services (DiffServ) architecture has been proposed by the Internet Engineering Task Force as a scalable solution for providing end-to-end Quality of Service (Qo...
—This paper studies the performance of contention based medium access control (MAC) protocols. In particular, a simple and accurate technique for estimating the throughput of the...
In the emerging next-generation transport networks, called intelligent optical transport networks, DWDM-based optical components like add-drop multiplexers and optical cross conne...