— Recent studies have shown that designing a Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol combined with a cooperative approach may improve the attainable network throughput, despite redu...
Intermediate network elements, such as network address translators (NATs), firewalls, and transparent caches are now commonplace. The usual reaction in the network architecture co...
Michael Walfish, Jeremy Stribling, Maxwell N. Kroh...
As the number of hosts attached to a network increases beyond what can be connected by a single local area network (LAN), forwarding packets between hosts on different LANs become...
Thomas L. Rodeheffer, Chandramohan A. Thekkath, Da...
Virtual circuits can reduce routing overheads with irregular topologies and provide support for a mix of quality of service (QOS) requirements. Information about network loads and...
—End to end available bandwidth is often constrained by IEEE 802.11 hops in the access network. Available bandwidth measurement is particularly challenging in the wireless enviro...