A connection management protocol establishes a connection between two hosts across a wide-area network to allow reliable message delivery. Following previous work of Kleinberg et a...
We study, from the competitive analysis perspective, the trade off between communication cost and delay cost (or simply the sendor-wait dilemma) on a hierarchy (rooted tree). The p...
When controlling dynamic systems, such as mobile robots in uncertain environments, there is a trade off between risk and reward. For example, a race car can turn a corner faster b...
We investigate network management information for light-path assessment to dynamically set up end-to-end lightpaths across administrative domains. Our focus is on invetigating what...
Abstract. In this paper, a framework for previous and new quasi-exact extensions of the A -algorithm is presented. In contrast to previous approaches, the new methods guarantee to ...