This paper describes how soft performance bounds can be expressed for software systems using stochastic probes over stochastic process algebra models. These stochastic probes are ...
Ashok Argent-Katwala, Jeremy T. Bradley, Nicholas ...
— We propose a rank-based peer-selection mechanism for peer-to-peer media streaming systems. The mechanism provides incentives for cooperation through service differentiation. Co...
Open networks allow users to communicate without any prior arrangements such as contractual agreement or organisation membership. However, the very nature of open networks makes a...
In the present paper, we outline few characteristics that every viable congestion control protocol for elastic traffic should satisfy. We provide and outline ways by which these c...
Abstract-- In this work the problem of modeling reconfigurable systems behavior with a precise, executable semantics is considered. The possibility of synthesising such models onto...
Giovanni Agosta, Francesco Bruschi, Marco D. Santa...