The DiffServ architecture has been proposed as a scalable approach for upgrading the Internet, adding service differentiation functionalities. However, several aspects of this arc...
Mario Barbera, Alfio Lombardo, Giovanni Schembra, ...
—Conventional wisdom about 802.11 WLANs dictates that as the number of active users increases, the contention windows (CW) of all the contending users needs to increase to preven...
How fast is the network? The speed at which real users can download content at different locations and at different times is an important metric for service providers. Knowledge o...
Alexandre Gerber, Jeffrey Pang, Oliver Spatscheck,...
— TCP-Friendly Rate Control (TFRC) is being adopted in Internet standards for congestion control of various streaming media applications. In this paper, we consider the transmiss...
It is challenging to manage the performance of real-time databases (RTDBs) that are often used in data-intensive real-time applications such as agile manufacturing and target trac...