Consider a stable open Jackson Network with a tree topology. Customers arrive at the single root of the tree. The system is stable in the sense that the average service rate at ea...
Network services play an important role in the Internet today. They serve as data caches for websites, servers for multiplayer games and relay nodes for Voice over IP (VoIP) conver...
— This paper studies connectivity maintenance of robotic networks that communicate at discrete times and move in continuous space. We propose a distributed algorithm that allows ...
We introduce a new type of graphical model called a `cumulative distribution network' (CDN), which expresses a joint cumulative distribution as a product of local functions. ...
This paper presents R-U-In? ? a social networking application that leverages Web 2.0 and IMS-based Converged Networks technologies to create a rich next-generation service. R-U-In...