Middleboxes are ubiquitous in today’s networks and perform a variety of important functions, including IDS, VPN, firewalling, and WAN optimization. These functions differ vastl...
Exponentially growing bandwidth requirements and slowing gains in processor speeds have led to the popularity of multiprocessor architectures. Network stack parallelism is increas...
Two schools of thoughts have emerged over the recent debate on internet router buffer sizing. One school argues that the presence of a large number of flows leads to traffic desync...
Event simulation and analytic modeling are used to evaluate the performance of Low Latency Queueing (LLQ), a queueing discipline available in some Internet packet switching router...
Denise M. Bevilacqua Masi, Martin J. Fischer, Davi...
This paper takes a known approach for scheduling and admission control in integrated services networks1 , the Priority Token Bank (PTB), whose mechanism and performance have been ...