In this paper we introduce a pricing scheme to be employed between a group of Internet service providers (ISPs) and a customer who wishes to initiate a packet flow from a fixed o...
Abstract— Many emerging applications for peer to peer overlays may require nodes to satisfy strict timing deadlines to access a replica of a given object. This includes multimedi...
Videogames now enable players to spend virtual fortunes on exotic virtual goods and even create and sell virtual artefacts. Online consumers may also browse endlessly through virt...
Supply Chain Management deals with the planning and coordination of bidding, production and procurement activities across the multiple organizations involved in the delivery of on...
Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) have been widely adopted in many Internet-scale P2P systems. Emerging P2P applications such as massively multi player online games (MMOGs) and P2P ca...