Recently, overlay network-based collaborative applications such as instant messaging, content sharing, and Internet telephony are becoming increasingly popular. Many of these appli...
Osama Al-Haj Hassan, Lakshmish Ramaswamy, John A. ...
Web 2.0 represents the evolution of the web from a source of information to a platform. Network advances have permitted users to migrate from desktop applications to so-called Ric...
Priya Nagpurkar, William Horn, U. Gopalakrishnan, ...
—Rapid expansion of the Internet and increasing demand for multimedia services fosters an immediate need for the development of new high-capacity networks capable of supporting t...
The content distribution techniques have recently started embracing peer-to-peer system as an alternative to the client-server architecture, such as BitTorrent system. BitTorrent ...
—Wireless Internet access is facilitated by IEEE 802.11 WLANs that, in addition to realizing a specific form of CSMA/CA—distributed coordination function (DCF)— implement a ...