As communications systems increasingly gather and propagate information about people’s reachability or “presence”, users need better tools to minimize undesired interruption...
There has been much work on developing techniques for estimating the capacity and the available bandwidth of network paths based on end-point measurements. The focus has primarily...
Karthik Lakshminarayanan, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, ...
Most of the solutions proposed to support real-time (i.e. guaranteed performance) communication services in packet-switching networks adopt a connection-oriented and reservation-o...
The design of complex concurrent systems often involves intricate performance and dependability considerations. Continuous-time Markov chains (CTMCs) are widely used models for co...
Lijun Zhang, Holger Hermanns, Ernst Moritz Hahn, B...
—BitTorrent suffers from one fundamental problem: the long-term availability of content. This occurs on a massivescale with 38% of torrents becoming unavailable within the first...