Abstract. Call admission control is a principal component for QoS delivery in IP networks. It determines the extent to which network resources are utilized. It determines also whet...
Multicast/broadcast is an important service primitive in networks. The IEEE 802.11 multicast/broadcast protocol is based on the basic access procedure of Carrier Sense Multiple Ac...
— This paper deals with the performance modeling of the various MAC states as defined by the cdma2000 protocol. Our method uses a composite performance metric which has the capa...
Data replication permits a better network bandwidth utilization and minimizes the effect of latency in large-scale systems such as computing grids. However, the cost of maintainin...
Effective caching in Domain Name System (DNS) is critical to its performance and scalability. Existing DNS only supports weak cache consistency by using the Time-To-Live (TTL) mec...