If a business built a plant to produce products without first designing a process to manufacture them, the risk would be lack of capacity without significant plant redesign. Simil...
—Knowledge of the network path properties such as latency, hop count, loss and bandwidth is key to the performance of overlay networks, grids and p2p applications. Network operat...
Rita H. Wouhaybi, Puneet Sharma, Sujata Banerjee, ...
Abstract. The trend towards cloud and utility computing infrastructures raises challenges not only for application development, but also for management: diverse resources, changing...
Skype is a popular peer-to-peer (P2P) voice over IP (VoIP) application evolving quickly since its launch in 2003. However, the ability to traverse network address translation (NAT...
Search engines are among the most important applications or services on the web. Most existing successful search engines use global ranking algorithms to generate the ranking of do...