— The Internet provides no information on the fate of transmitted packets, and end systems cannot determine who is responsible for dropping or delaying their traffic. As a resul...
Katerina J. Argyraki, Petros Maniatis, O. Irzak, S...
entifies three levels of abstraction for resource requirements a service provider needs to manage, detailed specification of raw resources, virtualization of heterogeneous resource...
Asit Dan, Kavitha Ranganathan, Catalin Dumitrescu,...
Packet filtering firewall is one of the most important mechanisms used by corporations to enforce their security policy. Recent years have seen a lot of research in the area of ...
In Internet-scale distributed systems, replicationbased scheme has been widely deployed to increase the availability and efficiency of services. Hence, consistency maintenance amo...
: Existing Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) exhibit the nature of closed delivery networks which do not cooperate with other CDNs and in practice, islands of CDNs are formed. The l...