—In distributed computing systems (DCSs) where server nodes can fail permanently with nonzero probability, the system performance can be assessed by means of the service reliabil...
Network traffic matrices are important for various network planning and management operations. Previous work for estimation of traffic matrices is based on either link load record...
IPTV is increasingly being deployed and offered as a commercial service to residential broadband customers. Compared with traditional ISP networks, an IPTV distribution network (i...
Ajay Anil Mahimkar, Zihui Ge, Aman Shaikh, Jia Wan...
— A novel cooperative multiple access protocol for packet speech communications is proposed. Cooperation is achieved through a relay node and by exploiting the silence periods du...
Amr El-Sherif, Andres Kwasinski, Ahmed K. Sadek, K...
— Traditional SLAs, defined by average delay or packet loss, often camouflage the instantaneous performance perceived by end-users. We define a set of metrics for service avai...