A number of analytical models have been proposed to describe the priority schemes of the Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) mechanism of the IEEE 802.11e standard. EDCA pr...
: The Internet continues its growth as a medium for the sale of goods and services – and yet, although it would seem that digital content was one of the most obvious products for...
- Since many Web applications employ a multi-tier architecture, in this paper, we focus on the problem of analytically modeling the behavior of such applications. We present a mode...
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Giovanni Pacifici, Prashant J. S...
This paper addresses the issue of provisioning end-to-end bandwidth guarantees across multiple Autonomous Systems (ASes). We first review a cascaded model for negotiating and est...
Kin-Hon Ho, Michael P. Howarth, Ning Wang, George ...
— One of the critical challenges facing the networking industry today is to increase the profitability of Internet services. One well-known method in economics for increasing th...