Due to financial losses caused by Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, most defence mechanisms have been deployed at the network where the target server is located. We be...
— Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are contracts signed between a provider and a customer to govern the amount of traffic that will be serviced. This work pinpoints an important ...
— TCP is the dominant transport protocol used in the Internet and its performance fundamentally governs the performance of Internet applications. It is well-known that packet los...
— We investigate the validity of reducing router buffer size in a large-scale network that includes both core networks and edge networks. We first devise a novel mathematical an...