— Average transmission rate and rate oscillation are two important performance metrics for most wireless services. Both are often needed to be optimized in multi-user scheduling ...
Abstract— This work is concerned with definining a performance index that can be used as an objective measure in the evaluation and comparison of ad hoc networking protocols. Sp...
In measuring the overall security of a network, a crucial issue is to correctly compose the measure of individual components. Incorrect compositions may lead to misleading results...
The availability of a P2P service is a function of the individual peers’ availabilities, and it is often desirable to estimate how available a particular P2P service will be giv...
Richard J. Dunn, John Zahorjan, Steven D. Gribble,...
Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) balance costs and quality in services related to content delivery. This has urged many Web entrepreneurs to make contracts with CDNs. In the liter...
Konstantinos Stamos, George Pallis, Athena Vakali,...