A multicast session directory is a mechanism by which users can discover the existence of multicast sessions. In the Mbone, session announcements have also served as multicast add...
Recently, a parametric State Reward Markov Model SRMM p has been developed for the reliability and availability analysis of self-healing SONET mesh networks 2 . In this paper, w...
—The proliferation of applications that must reliably distribute bulk data to a large number of autonomous clients motivates the design of new multicast and broadcast protocols. ...
John W. Byers, Michael Luby, Michael Mitzenmacher,...
The rapid growth of the World Wide Web has caused serious performance degradation on the Internet. This paper o ers an end-to-end approach to improving Web performance by collecti...
Edith Cohen, Balachander Krishnamurthy, Jennifer R...
In this paper, we analyze the relative merits of uniform versus priority dropping for the transmission of layered video. We rst present our original intuitions about these two app...