— One of the challenges facing the networking industry today is to increase the profitability of Internet services. This calls for economic mechanisms that can enable providers ...
Abstract— We consider a multi-class queueing system operating under the Discriminatory Processor-Sharing (DPS) discipline. The DPS discipline provides a natural approach for mode...
Abstract. Wireless Sensor Networks are edging closer to widespread feasibility with recent research showing promising results in developing and adapting new mechanisms to suit thei...
Recent research on processor microarchitecture suggests using instruction criticality as a metric to guide hardware control policies. Fields et al. [3, 4] have proposed a directed...
Abstract— In WiFi networks, mobile nodes compete for accessing a shared channel by means of a random access protocol called Distributed Coordination Function (DCF). Although this...