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INFOCOM
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Adaptive Leases: A Strong Consistency Mechanism for the World Wide Web
—In this paper, we argue that weak cache consistency mechanisms supported by existing Web proxy caches must be augmented by strong consistency mechanisms to support the growing d...
Venkata Duvvuri, Prashant J. Shenoy, Renu Tewari
INFOCOM
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Performance Comparison of Two On-demand Routing Protocols for Ad Hoc Networks
Ad hoc networks are characterized by multihop wireless connectivity, frequently changing network topology and the need for efficient dynamic routing protocols. We compare the perf...
Samir Ranjan Das, Charles E. Perkins, Elizabeth M....
INFOCOM
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
The Throughput of Data Switches with and without Speedup
— In this paper we use fluid model techniques to establish two results concerning the throughput of data switches. For an input-queued switch (with no speedup) we show that a ma...
J. G. Dai, Balaji Prabhakar
INFOCOM
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Prefetching the Means for Document Transfer: A New Approach for Reducing Web Latency
User-perceived latency is recognized as the central performance problem in the Web. We systematically measure factors contributing to this latency, across several locations. Our s...
Edith Cohen, Haim Kaplan
INFOCOM
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Balanced Packet Discard for Improving TCP Performance in ATM Networks
TCP suffers from low performance over asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) networks. This is mainly because during phases of congestion, ATM drops cells without taking into account th...
Reuven Cohen, Yaniv Hamo
INFOCOM
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Framework for Multicast in Hierarchical Networks
—We propose a framework for the creation and maintenance of multicast trees in hierarchical ATM networks. This framework aims at coping with an inherent difficulty of topology a...
Reuven Cohen, Eyal Felstaine, Roy Emek
INFOCOM
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Energy Efficient Battery Management
Abstract—A challenging aspect of mobile communications consists in exploring ways in which the available run time of terminals can be maximized. In this paper, we present a detai...
Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Ramesh R. Rao
INFOCOM
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Energy Conserving Routing in Wireless Ad-hoc Networks
— An ad-hoc network of wireless static nodes is considered as it arises in a rapidly deployed, sensor based, monitoring system. Information is generated in certain nodes and need...
Jae-Hwan Chang, Leandros Tassiulas
INFOCOM
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
A QoS-Aware Multicast Routing Protocol
—The future Internet is expected to support multicast applications with quality of service (QoS) requirements. To facilitate this, QoS multicast routing protocols are pivotal in ...
Shigang Chen, Klara Nahrstedt, Yuval Shavitt
INFOCOM
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
RMX: Reliable Multicast for Heterogeneous Networks
—Although IP Multicast is an effective network primitive for best-effort, large-scale, multi-point communication, many multicast applications such as shared whiteboards, multi-pl...
Yatin Chawathe, Steven McCanne, Eric A. Brewer