This paper presents three simple techniques for improving network service using relatively unknown features of many existing networks. The resulting system provides greater reliab...
In general, decision support is one of the main purposes of model-based analysis of systems. Response surface methodology (RSM) is an optimization technique that has been applied ...
Social networking services well know that some users are unwilling to freely share the information they store with the service (e.g. profile information). To address this, servic...
1 Challenges of scale have limited the development of event notification systems with strong properties, despite the urgent demand for consistency, reliability, security, and other...
Ken Birman, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Krzysztof Ostrow...
We analyze the behavior of the Ethernet in networks with a small number of active stations, and describe what is known as the Ethernet capture effect, where a station transmits co...