In this paper we argue that the best approach to providing Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees to current Internet services is to use admission control and traffic shaping techni...
Josep M. Blanquer, Antoni Batchelli, Klaus E. Scha...
Recently, the scheme of parallel downloading (PD) has been adopted by a number of Internet file downloading applications. With the wide deployment of content distribution network...
— A significant research effort has been devoted in recent years to the design of simple and efficient scheduling policies for Input Queued (IQ) and Combined Input Output Queue...
Marco Ajmone Marsan, Paolo Giaccone, Emilio Leonar...
— Rate adaptive multimedia streams offer significant system and client benefits over non-adaptive streams. These benefits come at the price of increased complexity in providin...
A crucial factor for real-time (interactive) services is the end-to-end delay experienced by the application. The contribution resulting from the queuing delay induced by the netwo...