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SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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Towards a top-down approach to teaching an undergraduate grid computing course
Early undergraduate Grid computing courses generally took a bottom-up approach to Grid computing education starting with network protocols, client-server concepts, creating Web an...
Barry Wilkinson, Clayton Ferner
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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Inspiring blind high school students to pursue computer science with instant messaging chatbots
Blind students are an underrepresented group in computer science. In this paper, we describe our experience preparing and leading the computer science track at the National Federa...
Jeffrey P. Bigham, Maxwell B. Aller, Jeremy T. Bru...
SIGMETRICS
2008
ACM
124views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2008»
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Class-of-service in ip backbones: informing the network neutrality debate
The benefit of Class-of-Service (CoS) is an important topic in the "Network Neutrality" debate. Proponents of network neutrality suggest that over-provisioning is a viab...
Murat Yuksel, Kadangode K. Ramakrishnan, Shivkumar...
SIGMETRICS
2008
ACM
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Performance bounds for peer-assisted live streaming
Peer-assisted streaming is a promising way for service providers to offer high-quality IPTV to consumers at reasonable cost. In peerassisted streaming, the peers exchange video ch...
Shao Liu, Rui Zhang-Shen, Wenjie Jiang, Jennifer R...
SIGMETRICS
2008
ACM
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An SLA perspective on the router buffer sizing problem
In this paper, we discuss recent work on buffer sizing in the context of an ISP's need to offer and guarantee competitive Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to its customers. Si...
Joel Sommers, Paul Barford, Albert G. Greenberg, W...