Abstract— In many IP media services, the media channels are point-to-point, dynamic, and set up with the participation of one or more application servers, even though the media p...
An optimistic acknowledgment (opt-ack) is an acknowledgment sent by a misbehaving client for a data segment that it has not received. Whereas previous work has focused on opt-ack ...
Differentiated services architectures are scalable solutions for providing class-based Quality of Service (QoS) over packet switched networks. While qualitative attributes of the o...
Abstract--The advent of electronic commerce and personal communications on the Internet heightens concerns over the lack of privacy and security. Network services providing a wide ...
This article is a critical review of computational techniques used to model, analyse and simulate signalling networks. We propose a conceptual framework, and discuss the role of s...