Utility functions can be used to represent the value users attach to job completion as a function of turnaround time. Most previous scheduling research used simple synthetic repre...
— The use of directional antennas in mobile ad hoc networks has shown to offer large potential throughput gains relative to omnidirectional antennas. When used in ad hoc networks...
— Slow convergence in the Internet can be directly attributed to the “path exploration” phenomenon, inherent in all path vector protocols. The root cause for path exploration...
In peer-to-peer overlay for video broadcast, peers contribute a portion of the bandwidth to the overlay in return for the service. In the presence of network heterogeneity, it is ...
This paper reports on and discusses three notions of approximation for Labelled Markov Processes that have been developed last year. The three schemes are improvements over former...