In P2P systems, large volumes of data are declustered naturally across a large number of peers. But it is very difficult to control the initial data distribution because every use...
—Although IP Multicast is an effective network primitive for best-effort, large-scale, multi-point communication, many multicast applications such as shared whiteboards, multi-pl...
Three protocols for gossip-based failure detection services in large-scale heterogeneous clusters are analyzed and compared. The basic gossip protocol provides a means by which fai...
Usage-based pricing of offered traffic to a data network can be an effective technique for congestion control. To gain insight into the benejits usage-based pricing offers, we pro...
Abstract—Virtual Private Networks (VPN) and link sharing are cost effective way of realizing corporate intranets. Corporate intranets will increasingly have to provide Integrated...