This article revisits the concept of autopoiesis and examines its relation to cognition and life. We present a mathematical model of a 3D tesselation automaton, considered as a min...
— Many network operators offer some type of tiered service, in which users may select only from a small set of service levels (tiers). In this work, we study the problem of desig...
A strong candidate for the future Internet core is optical packet-switched (OPS) network. In this paper, we study the impact of mechanisms as employed in OPS networks on the perfo...
Abstract— Network processing is becoming an increasingly important paradigm as the Internet moves towards an architecture with more complex functionality inside the network. Mode...
Abstract--The information propagation speed (IPS) of a network specifies how fast the information can be transmitted in a network. In this paper, we derive an IPS upper bound in co...