Join the Shortest Queue (JSQ) is a popular routing policy for server farms. However, until now all analysis of JSQ has been limited to First-Come-First-Serve (FCFS) server farms, ...
Varun Gupta, Mor Harchol-Balter, Karl Sigman, Ward...
We propose a simple framework for analyzing feedforward queueing networks that have the following features: each customer belongs to a (customer) flow and the route that a custom...
Among all peer-to-peer (P2P) systems, BitTorrent seems to be the most prevalent one. This success has drawn a great deal of research interest on the system. In particular, there h...
Many emerging mobile wireless applications depend upon secure group communications, in which data is encrypted and the group's data encryption key is changed whenever a membe...
Chun Zhang, Brian DeCleene, James F. Kurose, Donal...
This paper describes the use of a parallel discrete-event network emulator called the Internet Protocol Traffic and Network Emulator (IP-TNE) for Web server benchmarking. The expe...
Carey L. Williamson, Rob Simmonds, Martin F. Arlit...
In this paper, we study the use of continuous-time hidden Markov models (CT-HMMs) for network protocol and application performance evaluation. We develop an algorithm to infer the...
Priority scheduling for packets is becoming a hot topic, as attemps are being made to integrate voice services in existing data networks. In this paper, we consider a discrete-tim...