Authenticating mobile computing users can require a significant amount of processing and communications resources— particularly when protocols based on public key encryption are...
The caching behavior of multimedia applications has been described as having high instruction reference locality within small loops, very large working sets, and poor data cache p...
— Accurately estimating end-to-end performance in distributed systems is essential both for monitoring compliance with service-level agreements (SLAs) and for performance optimiz...
In this paper we present an experimental study conducted in 802.11based mesh networks of three existing rate adaptation algorithms. The aim of this study is twofold. On the one ha...
We perform a head-to-head comparison of the performance characteristics of a 3G network operated by a nation-wide provider and a metro-scale WiFi network operated by a commercial ...