Data replication permits a better network bandwidth utilization and minimizes the effect of latency in large-scale systems such as computing grids. However, the cost of maintainin...
Scalability considerations drive the switch fabric design to evolve from output queueing to input queueing and further to combined input and crosspoint queueing (CICQ). However, f...
While Internet telephony aims to provide services at least equal to traditional telephony, the architecture of Internet telephony is sufficiently different to make it necessary to ...
Despite the availability of video-on-demand (VoD) services in a number of cities around the world, large-scale deployment of VoD services in a metropolitan area is still economical...
This material was presented in a series of lectures at fosad, a summer school on Foundations of Security Analysis and Design, at the University of Bologna Center at Bertinoro in Se...