Event-driven sensor networks operate under an idle or light load and then suddenly become active in response to a detected or monitored event. The transport of event impulses is l...
Chieh-Yih Wan, Shane B. Eisenman, Andrew T. Campbe...
— Most Internet telephony applications currently use either TCP or UDP to carry their voice-over-IP (VoIP) traffic. This choice can be problematic, because TCP is not well suite...
H. Vlad Balan, Lars Eggert, Saverio Niccolini, Mar...
Vegas is a new implementation of TCP that achieves between 40 and 70% better throughput, with one-fifth to onehalf the losses, as compared to the implementation of TCP in the Reno...
Lawrence S. Brakmo, Sean W. O'Malley, Larry L. Pet...
Many sophisticated mechanisms have been implemented at both the transport and the network layers in order to estimate network conditions and avoid overload of network links. We ev...
Ageliki Tsioliaridou, Christos V. Samaras, Vassili...
In a distributed system where scalability is an issue, like in a GRID [5], the problem of enforcing mutual exclusion often arises in a soft form: the infrequent failure of the mut...