Rate-Delay (RD) Network Services constitute a promising differentiated-services architecture for multi-provider networks, by offering users a choice between high throughput or low ...
Abstract—Inspired by the recent development of optical queueing theory, in this paper we study a class of multistage interconnection networks (MINs), called twister networks. Unl...
Ching-Ming Lien, Cheng-Shang Chang, Jay Cheng, Dua...
In this paper we consider the MAX-WEIGHT protocol for routing and scheduling in wireless networks under an adversarial model. This protocol has received a significant amount of a...
We study the market partition between two distinct firms that deliver services to waiting time sensitive customers. In our model, the incoming customers select a firm on the basis...
Experimental performance studies on computer systems, including Grids, require deep understandings on their workload characteristics. The need arises from two important and closel...