—Energy conservation is drawing increasing attention in data networking. One school of thought believes that a dominant amount of energy saving comes from turning off network ele...
During counterinsurgency operations, government forces with superior …repower confront weaker lowsignature insurgents. Under what conditions should government (Blue) forces atta...
There is growing interest in, and an increasing number of attempts by, traditional information providers to engage social content creation and sharing communities in creating and ...
In this paper we consider server farms with a setup cost. This model is common in manufacturing systems and data centers, where there is a cost to turn servers on. Setup costs alw...
In a M/M/N+M queue, when there are many customers waiting, it may be preferable to reject a new arrival rather than risk that arrival later abandoning without receiving service. O...