In a public cloud, bandwidth is traditionally priced in a pay-asyou-go model. Reflecting the recent trend of augmenting cloud computing with bandwidth guarantees, we consider a n...
—Increasingly wireless networks use multi-antenna nodes as in IEEE 802.11n and 802.16. The Physical layer (PHY) in such systems may use the antennas to provide multiple streams o...
Wonsoo Kim, O. Khan, Kien T. Truong, Soon-Hyeok Ch...
Peer-to-peer (p2p) technology can potentially be used to build highly reliable applications without a single point of failure. However, most of the existing applications, such as ...
Alan Mislove, Ansley Post, Andreas Haeberlen, Pete...
Network, web, and disk I/O traffic are usually bursty, self-similar [9, 3, 5, 6] and therefore can not be modeled adequately with Poisson arrivals[9]. However, we do want to model...
Mengzhi Wang, Ngai Hang Chan, Spiros Papadimitriou...
A fair contract signing protocol allows two potentially mistrusted parities to exchange their commitments (i.e., digital signatures) to an agreed contract over the Internet in a f...