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2008
Springer
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2008
Springer
Following up on a recently renewed interest in computational methods for M/G/1-type processes, this paper considers an M/G/1-like system in which the service time distribution is ...
PE
2008
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Springer
One of the major concerns in optical networks is the bandwidth underutilization problem. In fact, as WDM technology keeps maturing, there is a bandwidth gap between the transmissi...
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2008
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Springer
Computer systems researchers have begun to apply the Foreground-Background (FB) scheduling discipline to a variety of applications, and as a result, there has been a resurgence in...
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2008
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Springer
Ratings (also known as recommendations) provide an efficient and effective way to build trust relationship in the human society, by making use of the information from others rathe...
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2008
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Springer
In this paper we describe an analytical technique for the performance evaluation of wide-area networks carrying realistic TCP traffic, such as that produced by a large number of f...
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2008
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Springer
By characterizing the worst case profile, which maximizes the content of a buffer fed with leaky bucket regulated flows in packet telecommunication networks, we derive a tight upp...
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2008
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Springer
We propose and analyze a scalable and efficient region-based group key management protocol for secure group communications in mobile ad hoc networks. For scalability and dynamic r...
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2008
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Springer
As the size of parallel computers increases, as well as the number of sources per router node, congestion inside the interconnection network rises significantly. In such systems, ...
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2008
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Springer
In this paper we present a new approach to derive heavy-traffic asymptotics for polling models. We consider the classical cyclic polling model with exhaustive or gated service at ...
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2008
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Springer