A Shrew attack, which uses a low-rate burst carefully designed to exploit TCP’s retransmission timeout mechanism, can throttle the bandwidth of a TCP flow in a stealthy manner....
—We introduce variable-bandwidth servers (VBS) for scheduling and executing processes under programmable temporal isolation. A VBS is an extension of a constant-bandwidth server ...
Silviu S. Craciunas, Christoph M. Kirsch, Hannes P...
—During the last years next generation networks (NGNs) have gained attention, as an increasing number of network operators moved toward triple-play services: telephony, Internet ...
Token passing is a channel access technique used in several communication networks. Among them, one of the most effective solution for supporting both real-time traffic (synchron...
Gianluca Franchino, Giorgio C. Buttazzo, Tullio Fa...
—Significant progress has been made in understanding the behavior of TCP and congestion-controlled traffic over multihop wireless networks. Despite these advances, however, no ...