Application-level multicast is a new mechanism for enabling multicast in the Internet. Driven by the fast growth of network audio/video streams, application-level multicast has be...
— Multicast services can be provided either as a basic network service or as an application-layer service. Higher level multicast implementations often provide more sophisticated...
Abstract— Network service providers contract with network owners for connection rights, then offer individual users network access at a price. Within this hierarchy, the service ...
Abstract— Service availability is one of the most closely scrutinized metrics in offering network services. It is important to costeffectively provision a managed and differentia...
Dahai Xu, Ying Li, Mung Chiang, A. Robert Calderba...
We propose a microeconomic approach to service provisioning in ATM networks. Our provisioning procedure consists of two algorithms, one executed by the network and the other by in...