In stochastic thresholding, the threshold for quantization of a signal is randomized. An estimator based on quantized signal data can be optimized through stochastic thresholding. ...
In a competitive telecommunications marketplace, operators must provide customers with rapid access to both new and traditional service offerings. Market share is developed through...
Businesses selling multimedia rich software or e-content are growing in the Internet. The e-content can be downloaded or streamed immediately after an on-line transaction. Since I...
In this paper, we consider wide-area backbone networks where multiple connection-oriented guaranteed services with differing bandwidth/flow requirements are offered. Specifically,...
—Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks offer a cost effective and easily deployable framework for sharing user-generated content. However, intrinsic incentive problems reside in P2P networ...