Current HTTP servers process requests using a first come first serve queuing policy. What this implies is that the web server must process each request as it arrives. The result is...
Abstract—In this paper, we describe a receiver based congestion control policy that leverages TCP flow control mechanisms to prioritize mixed traffic loads across access links....
Neil T. Spring, Maureen Chesire, Mark Berryman, Vi...
Mobile computing offers the possibility of dramatically expanding the versatility of computers, by bringing them off the desktop and into new and unique contexts. However, this ne...
Jacob Eisenstein, Jean Vanderdonckt, Angel R. Puer...
People now have available to them a diversity of digital storage devices, including palmtops, cell phone address books, laptops, desktop computers and web-based services. Unfortun...
Edward Swierk, Emre Kiciman, Vince Laviano, Mary B...
We study the effects of RED on the performance of Web browsing with a novel aspect of our work being the use of a usercentric measure of performance — response time for HTTP req...
Mikkel Christiansen, Kevin Jeffay, David Ott, F. D...