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CCR
2011
13 years 4 months ago
Dynamically scaling applications in the cloud
Scalability is said to be one of the major advantages brought by the cloud paradigm and, more specifically, the one that makes it different to an “advanced outsourcing” solu...
Luis M. Vaquero, Luis Rodero-Merino, Rajkumar Buyy...
CCR
2011
13 years 7 months ago
Application flow control in YouTube video streams
This paper presents the results of an investigation into the application flow control technique utilised by YouTube. We reveal and describe the basic properties of YouTube applic...
Shane Alcock, Richard Nelson
CCR
2011
13 years 7 months ago
Misbehaviors in TCP SACK generation
While analyzing CAIDA Internet traces of TCP traffic to detect instances of data reneging, we frequently observed seven misbehaviors in the generation of SACKs. These misbehaviors...
Nasif Ekiz, Abuthahir Habeeb Rahman, Paul D. Amer
CCR
2011
13 years 7 months ago
The politecast communication primitive for low-power wireless
ion can improve performance without significantly breaking layered abstractions; explicit bursts are preferable to steady, constant bitrate traffic. Furthermore, the vagaries and c...
Marcus Lundén, Adam Dunkels
CCR
2011
13 years 7 months ago
IP geolocation databases: unreliable?
The most widely used technique for IP geolocation consists in building a database to keep the mapping between IP blocks and a geographic location. Several databases are available ...
Ingmar Poese, Steve Uhlig, Mohamed Ali Kâafa...
CCR
2011
13 years 7 months ago
Two-way TCP connections: old problem, new insight
Many papers explain the drop of download performance when two TCP connections in opposite directions share a common bottleneck link by ACK compression, the phenomenon in which dow...
Martin Heusse, Sears A. Merritt, Timothy X. Brown,...
CCR
2011
13 years 7 months ago
Instrumenting home networks
In managing and troubleshooting home networks, one of the challenges is in knowing what is actually happening. Availability of a record of events that occurred on the home network...
Kenneth L. Calvert, W. Keith Edwards, Nick Feamste...
CCR
2011
13 years 7 months ago
Session reports for SIGCOMM 2010
This document collects together reports of the sessions from the 2010 ACM SIGCOMM Conference, the annual conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOM...
Shailesh Agrawal, Kavitha Athota, Pramod Bhatotia,...
CCR
2011
13 years 7 months ago
ExtremeCom: to boldly go where no one has gone before
Research on networks for challenged environments has become a major research area recently. There is however a lack of true understanding among networking researchers about what s...
Anders Lindgren, Pan Hui
CCR
2011
13 years 7 months ago
Papyrus: a software platform for distributed dynamic spectrum sharing using SDRs
Proliferation and innovation of wireless technologies require significant amounts of radio spectrum. Recent policy reforms by the FCC are paving the way by freeing up spectrum fo...
Lei Yang, Zengbin Zhang, Wei Hou, Ben Y. Zhao, Hai...