— Multi-server and multi-queue architectures are common mechanisms used in a large variety of applications (call centers, Web services, computer systems). One of the major motiva...
Multi-server and multi-queue architectures are common mechanisms used in a large variety of applications (call centers, Web services, computer systems). One of the major motivatio...
Recently, research has focused on enabling fair exchange between payment and electronically shipped items. The reason for this is the growing importance of Electronic Commerce and...
: Fair exchange protocols allow both or neither of two parties to obtain the other's items, and this property is essential in e-commerce. In this paper, we construct an optimi...
In EPONs, differentiated services enable higher quality of service (QoS) for some queues over others. However, owing to the coarse granularity of DiffServ, DiffServ in EPONs can ha...