As cloud computing environments become explosively popular, dealing with unpredictable changes, uncertainties, and disturbances in both systems and environments turns out to be on...
Abstract— The objective of the paper is to provide qualitative insight into the global effects of distributed mechanisms, such as carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) and rate co...
Despite its support of prioritized services, the IEEE 802.11e Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) cannot guarantee strict QoS required by real-time services such as voice a...
In wireless sensor networks, it is critical to restrict the network access only to eligible sensor nodes, while messages from outsiders will not be forwarded in the networks. In t...
Kun Sun, An Liu, Roger Xu, Peng Ning, W. Douglas M...
It is common that Internet service hosting centres use several logical pools to assign server resources to different applications, and that they try to achieve the highest total r...
James Wen Jun Xue, Adam P. Chester, Ligang He, Ste...