In mobile ad-hoc networks, the multicast paradigm is of central importance. It can help to save scarce medium bandwidth if packets are to be delivered to multiple destinations. We...
The performance of the protocol stack implementation of an operating system can greatly impact the performance of networked applications that run on it. In this paper, we present a...
Open shortest path first (OSPF) is the most widely used internal gateway routing protocol on the Internet. However, one shortcoming is that it does not take advantage of the exist...
Replication is a widely used method for achieving high availability in database systems. Due to the nondeterminism inherent in traditional concurrency control schemes, however, sp...
While in computer networks the number of possible protocol encapsulations is growing day after day, network administrators face ever increasing difficulties in selecting accurately...
Luigi Ciminiera, Marco Leogrande, Ju Liu, Fulvio R...