— Grid computing requires network services beyond what is currently provided by the Best-Effort Internet. Among the different approaches towards network Quality of Service, aggre...
Abstract— Despite the emergence of voice over IP and videoconferencing services, recent studies have shown that the Internet still may not provide acceptable quality for interact...
Fernando Silveira Filho, Edson H. Watanabe, Edmund...
In this note we identify a phenomenon for processor sharing queues that is unique to ones with time-varying rates. This property was discovered while correcting a proof in Hampshi...
This paper proposes and evaluates a Network Aware Forward Caching approach for determining the optimal deployment strategy of forward caches to a network. A key advantage of this ...
Jeffrey Erman, Alexandre Gerber, Mohammad Taghi Ha...
— The tolerable packet-loss ratio of an Internet Protocol (IP) based wireless networks varies according to the specific services considered. File transfer for example must be er...