For most of its existence, Linux has been used primarily as a personal desktop operating system. Yet, in recent times, its use as a cost-efficient alternative to commercial operat...
This paper evaluates the congestion control performance of Pseudofed, a congestion-controlled, reliable multicast transport protocol for bulk data transfer. Pseudofed's conge...
A large-scale, distributed video-on-demand (VOD) system allows geographically dispersed residential and business users to access video services, such as movies and other multimedia...
Constantinos Vassilakis, Michael Paterakis, Peter ...
We construct, analyze and solve models of systems where a number of servers offer services to an incoming stream of demands. Each server goes through alternating periods of being ...
Server selection plays an essential role in content replication networks, such as peer-to-peer (P2P) and content delivery networks (CDNs). In this paper, we perform an analytical i...