Content providers base their business on their ability to receive and answer requests from clients distributed across the Internet. Since disruptions in the flow of these request...
Engineering design is validated by engineering analysis. In the process for predicting the physical behavior of the design, the design components, physical mechanisms, etc. are id...
In this paper, we consider a set of HTTP flows using TCP over a common drop-tail link to download files. After each download, a flow waits for a random think time before reques...
We view scientific workflows as the domain scientist's way to harness cyberinfrastructure for e-Science. Domain scientists are often interested in "end-to-end" fram...
We introduce a new realistic input model for geometric graphs and nonconvex polyhedra. A geometric graph G is local if (1) the longest edge at every vertex v is only a constant fa...