Abstract. The paper proposes a priority-aware MAC (Medium Access Control) protocol for a core metropolitan area network in the next generation Internet, which is an OPS (Optical Pa...
Multi-field packet classification is a key enabling function of a variety of network applications, such as firewall processing, Quality of Service differentiation, traffic billing...
—Flash-crowd attacks are the most vicious form of distributed denial of service (DDoS). They flood the victim with service requests generated from numerous bots. Attack requests...
Abstract— As an efficient distribution mechanism, peer-topeer technology has become a tremendously attractive solution to offload servers in large scale video streaming applica...
Under device failures and maintenance activities, network resources reduce and congestion may arise inside networks. As a result, users experience degraded performance on packet d...