In distributed P2P environments, peers (i.e., users) often have to request the services from some unfamiliar peers (i.e., resources) that could be altruistic, selfish, or even ma...
In this paper we discuss utility functions models to study Radio Resource Management. Our goal is to identify the characteristics of the wireless systems which make such theoretic...
This paper contributes to a facet from the area of Web Information Retrieval that has recently received much attention: The satisfaction of a user's personal information need ...
Service availability is one of the most closely scrutinized metrics in offering network services. It is important to cost-effectively provision a managed and differentiated networ...
Dahai Xu, Ying Li, Mung Chiang, A. Robert Calderba...
Fairness in multihop ad hoc networks has received considerable attention in the literature. Many schemes have been proposed, which attempt to compute the “optimal” bit rates o...