Excessive buffer requirement to handle continuous-media playbacks is an impediment to costeffective provisioning for on-line video retrieval. Given the skewed distribution of video...
— There is a growing interest among service providers to offer new services with Quality of Service (QoS) guaranties that are also resilient to failures. Supporting QoS connectio...
In an open environment such as the Internet, the decision to collaborate with a stranger (e.g., by granting access to a resource) is often based on the characteristics (rather tha...
Abstract— There are many applications where a timely response to an important event is needed. Often such response can require significant computation and possibly communication...
This paper addresses bandwidth allocation for an integrated voice/data broadband mobile wireless network. Specifically, we propose a new admission control scheme called EFGC, whic...