Peer-to-peer are popular environments for exchanging services. A reputation mechanism is a proper means of discovering low-performing peers that fail to provide their services. In...
Correlations in traffic patterns are an important facet of the workloads faced by real systems, and one that has far-reaching consequences on the performance and optimization of t...
Varun Gupta, Michelle Burroughs, Mor Harchol-Balte...
Abstract. Round trip times (RTTs) play an important role in Internet measurements. In this paper, we explore some of the ways in which routing policies impact RTTs. In particular, ...
Han Zheng, Eng Keong Lua, Marcelo Pias, Timothy G....
We examine the password policies of 75 different websites. Our goal is understand the enormous diversity of requirements: some will accept simple six-character passwords, while o...
A strength of commitment protocols is that they enable agents to act flexibly, thereby enabling them to accommodate varying local policies and respond to exceptions. A consequent ...