In wireless communication systems, the capacity of a cell (the amount of correctly delivered traffic in unit time) is a precious resource that can not be arbitrarily increased. T...
The heterogeneity of the Internet’s transmission resources and end system capability makes it difficult to agree on acceptable traffic characteristics among the multiple receive...
—Internet application performance over wireless links is disappointing, due to wireless impairments and their adverse interactions with higher protocol layers. In order to effect...
— Research on multimedia adaptation usually assumes undifferentiated, best-effort service from the network, and relies on signaling mechanisms such as packet loss rates for feedb...
Current HTTP servers process requests using a first come first serve queuing policy. What this implies is that the web server must process each request as it arrives. The result is...