Abstract. A communication protocol consists of a sequence of messages used by peer entities to communicate. Each entity in a network is equipped by at least one protocol stack. Due...
To maintain consistency, designers of replicated services have traditionally been forced to choose from either strong consistency guarantees or none at all. Realizing that a conti...
A large and increasing gap exists between processor and memory speeds in scalable cache-coherent multiprocessors. To cope with this situation, programmers and compiler writers mus...
As the Internet grows in size, it becomes crucial to understand how the speeds of links in the network must improve in order to sustain the pressure of new end-nodes being added e...
Passive monitoring is an important tool for measuring, troubleshooting, and protecting modern wireless networks. To date, WiFi monitoring has focused primarily on indoor settings ...