— 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 ...
The ability to quickly predict the throughput of a TCP transfer between a client and a server, or between peers, has wide application in scientific computing and commercial compu...
The performance of receive side TCP processing has traditionally been dominated by the cost of the `per-byte' operations, such as data copying and checksumming. We show that ...
The TCP transport layer protocol is designed for connections that traverse a single path between the sender and receiver. However, there are several environments in which multiple...
Multi-homed mobile hosts situated in physical proximity may spontaneously team up to run high-bandwidth applications by pooling their low wireless wide-area network (WWAN) bandwid...