— The peer-to-peer communication paradigm, when used to disseminate bulk content or to stream real-time multimedia, has enjoyed the distinct advantage of scalability when compare...
Proportional delay differentiation (PDD) model is an important approach for relative differentiated services provisioning on the Internet. It aims to maintain pre-specified packet ...
— We propose a game theoretic pricing mechanism for statistically guaranteed service in packet-switched networks. The mechanism provides congestion control, differentiated qualit...
Differentiated Services (DS) is currently the major approach discussed to provide network layer service differentiation in IP networks. However, the discussion mainly addresses ...
Slowdown, defined as the ratio of a request’s queueing delay to its service time, is accepted as an important quality of service metric of Internet servers. In this paper, we i...
Xiaobo Zhou, Yu Cai, C. Edward Chow, Marijke F. Au...