Abstract— Current computing systems employ different mechanisms to deal with overload conditions. Of those widely deployed are content adaptation mechanisms whereby the quality l...
Mina Guirguis, Joshua Tharp, Azer Bestavros, Ibrah...
Multimedia and real-time services are spreading all over the Internet. The delivery quality of such contents is closely related to its network performance, for example in terms suc...
Abstract. Multicasting is increasingly used as an efficient communication mechanism for group-oriented applications in the Internet. In order to offer secrecy for multicast applic...
The Self Distributing Virtual Machine (SDVM) is a parallel computing machine which consists of a cluster of customary computers. The participating machines may have different comp...
Retransmission can be used for loss recovery in continuous media applications but the number of retransmission attempts is bounded by the size of the playout buffer. For efficient...