The majority of the traffic (bytes) flowing over the Internet today have been attributed to the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). This strong presence of TCP has recently spu...
Real-time media servers are becoming increasingly important as the Internet supports more and more multimedia applications. In order to meet these ever increasing demands, real-ti...
The Enhanced Pay-Per-View (EPPV) model for providing continuous-media services associates with each continuous-media clip a display frequency that depends on the clip's popula...
Future broadband satellite networks will support a variety of service types. Many such systems are being designed with ATM or ATM like technology. A majority of Internet applicatio...
Parallel programmers typically assume that all resources required for a program’s execution are dedicated to that purpose. However, in local and wide area networks, contention f...
Alain J. Roy, Ian T. Foster, William Gropp, Nichol...