End-to-end congestion control algorithms in TCP are designed for a highly co-operative environment with the assumption that the end hosts voluntarily participate in it and obey th...
Crash and omission failures are common in service providers: a disk can break down or a link can fail anytime. In addition, the probability of a node failure increases with the num...
Real-time applications often have mixed hard and soft deadlines, can be preempted subject to the cost of context switching or the restart of computation, and have various data dep...
This paper describes a novel technique for establishing a virtual file system that allows data to be transferred user-transparently and on-demand across computing and storage serve...
Renato J. O. Figueiredo, Nirav H. Kapadia, Jos&eac...
The lecture notes cover the following topics,
Fundamentals (OSI Reference Model, Coding, Ethernet), Data Link Control (Flow Control, Error Control, HDLC, PPP), Internet Protocol ...