Many current effectiveness measures incorporate simplifying assumptions about user behavior. These assumptions prevent the measures from reflecting aspects of the search process...
Microprocessor vendors have provided special-purpose instructions such as psadbw and pdist to accelerate the sumof-absolute differences (SAD) similarity measurement. The usefulne...
Asadollah Shahbahrami, Ben H. H. Juurlink, Stamati...
Carriers increasingly differentiate their wide-area connectivity offerings by means of customized services, such as virtual private networks (VPN) with Quality of Service (QoS) g...
—This paper presents a new method, BART (Bandwidth Available in Real-Time), for estimating the end-toend available bandwidth over a network path. It estimates bandwidth quasi-con...
Svante Ekelin, Martin Nilsson, Erik Hartikainen, A...
Available bandwidth estimation is useful for route selection in overlay networks, QoS verification, and traffic engineering. Recent years have seen a surge in interest in availab...