To better represent human interactions in social networks, the authors take a network-oriented simulation approach to analyze the evolution of acquaintance networks based on local...
— 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 ...
We consider a traffic-groomed optical network consisting of N nodes arranged in tandem. This optical network is modeled by a tandem queueing network of multi-rate loss queues with...
Alicia Nicki Washington, Chih-Chieh Hsu, Harry G. ...
Due to the increasing deployment of conversational real-time applications like VoIP and videoconferencing, the Internet is today facing new challenges. Low end-to-end delay is a vi...
An indoor power line is one of the most attractive media for in-home networks. However, there are many technical problems for achieving in-home power line communication (PLC) with ...