Abstract - Overlay multicast, which performs topology construction and data relaying in the application layer, has recently emerged as a promising vehicle for data distribution. In...
It is well known that optimal server placement is NP-hard. We present an approximate model for the case when both clients and servers are dense, and propose a simple server alloca...
We address the joint problem of clustering heterogenous clients and allocating scalable video source rate and FEC redundancy in IPTV systems. We propose a streaming solution that ...
-- We present a new class of finite queues in cyclic networks with production blocking. We show that with a threshold property related to the number of customers in the network, th...
Abstract: In this paper a novel payment system for Peer-to-Peer (P2P) commerce transactions is presented. It implements electronic cash-based transactions, between buyers and merch...