A reward-based task typically consists of a mandatory part that must be accomplished before the given deadline, and an optional part that is associated with rewards for partial co...
Recently, a TCP-friendly, single-rate multicast congestion control scheme called pgmcc was introduced by one of the authors. In this paper, we study the fairness of pgmcc in a vari...
— We consider cell-based switch architectures, whose internal switching matrix does not provide enough speed to avoid input buffering. These architectures require a scheduling al...
Marco Ajmone Marsan, Emilio Leonardi, Marco Mellia...
Wide-area distributed applications are frequently limited by the performance of Internet data transfer. We argue that the principle cause of this effect is the poor interaction be...
We present the Smart Object, Dumb Archive (SODA) model for digital libraries (DLs). The SODA model transfers functionality traditionally associated with archives to the archived ob...
Michael L. Nelson, Kurt Maly, Mohammad Zubair, Ste...