The IEEE 802.11e standard revises the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer of the former IEEE 802.11 standard for Quality-of-Service (QoS) provision in the Wireless Local Area Networ...
In this paper, we propose an accurate analytical model to analyze the performance of initial ranging requests in IEEE 802.16 networks. Two metrics, connection probability and aver...
Suppose a decision maker has to purchase a commodity over time with varying prices and demands. In particular, the price per unit might depend on the amount purchased and this pri...
Abstract— Priority queues are essential for various network processing applications, including per-flow queueing with Quality-of-Service (QoS) guarantees, management of large fa...
Abstract— Protocols such as TCP require packets to be accepted (i.e., delivered to the receiving application) in the order they are transmitted at the sender. Packets are sometim...