Minimizing Waiting Time Variance (WTV) is a job scheduling problem where we schedule a batch of n jobs, for servicing on a single resource, in such a way that the variance of thei...
Application layer multicast (ALM) provides a low-cost solution for multicast over the Internet. It overcomes the deployment hurdle of IP multicast by moving all multicast related ...
Internet end-systems employ various adaptation mechanisms that enable them to respond adequately to legitimate requests in overload situations. Today, these mechanisms are incorpo...
Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta, Yuti...
Connection preemption provides available and reliable services to high-priority connections when a network is heavily loaded and connection request arrival patterns are unknown, o...
In wireless sensor networks, poor performance or unexpected behavior may be experienced for several reasons, such as trivial deterioration of sensing hardware, unsatisfactory impl...
Marco Avvenuti, Paolo Corsini, Paolo Masci, Alessi...