— The IEEE 802.11-based wireless local area networks (WLANs) are widely used for high-speed wireless data access. With the recent 802.11e quality-of-service (QoS) extension, real...
We study the problem of finding optimal strategies for a life insurance company or pension fund that acts on behalf of an insured so as to maximize the expected utility (in a gene...
A content delivery cloud, such as MetaCDN1 , is an integrated overlay that utilizes cloud computing to provide content delivery services to Internet end-users. While it ensures sat...
Al-Mukaddim Khan Pathan, James Broberg, Rajkumar B...
—The implementation of distributed network utility maximization (NUM) algorithms hinges heavily on information feedback through message passing among network elements. In practic...
This paper presents a unified utility framework for resource selection of distributed text information retrieval. This new framework shows an efficient and effective way to infer ...