Reputation-based mechanisms and policies are vulnerable to the submission of untruthful ratings. In this paper, we define and analyze a game-theoretic model that captures the dyn...
Web caching has been recognized as an effective scheme to alleviate the service bottleneck and reduce the network traffic, thereby minimizing the user access latency on the Intern...
In this paper, we consider a variant of an M/M/c/c loss system with fluctuating server capacity. Given a set of primary inputs, such as arrival rate, service rate, and capacity fl...
Abstract--More and more embedded systems provide a multitude of services, implemented by a large number of networked hardware components. In early design phases, dimensioning such ...
—The call-level performance modelling and evaluation of 3G cellular networks is important for the proper network dimensioning and efficient use of the network resources, such as ...