— The packet losses imposed by IP networks can cause long and erratic recovery delays, since senders must often use conservative loss detection and retransmission mechanisms. Thi...
—Bowman is an extensible platform for active networking: it layers active-networking functionality in user-space software over variants of the System V UNIX operating system. The...
Shashidhar Merugu, Samrat Bhattacharjee, Ellen W. ...
— We consider cell-based switch architectures, whose internal switching matrix does not provide enough speed to avoid input buffering. These architectures require a scheduling al...
Marco Ajmone Marsan, Emilio Leonardi, Marco Mellia...
— We study wavelength assignment for lightpaths over WDM rings to minimize the SONET ADMs used. This problem has attracted much attention recently. However, its computation compl...
Current HTTP servers process requests using a first come first serve queuing policy. What this implies is that the web server must process each request as it arrives. The result is...
Abstract—In this paper, we present the implementation issues of a virtual backbone that supports the operations of the Uniform Quorum System (UQS) and the Randomized Database Gro...
—Large-scale applications are characterized by a large number of dynamic and often interactive group members. The nature of these applications is such that participants are not i...
Brian Neil Levine, Jon Crowcroft, Christophe Diot,...