Despite the fact that global multicast is still not possible in today’s Internet, many local networks are already multicastcapable (the so-called multicast “islands”). Howev...
— IP routing scalability is based on hierarchical routing, which requires that the IP address hierarchy be aligned with the physical topology. Both site multi-homing and switchin...
Xinyang Zhang, Paul Francis, Jia Wang, Kaoru Yoshi...
The rapid evolution of networks has been driven by new advances in enabling technologies and the explosive growth of Internet traffic. Optical Burst Switching (OBS) is not only co...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems are characterized by direct access between peer computers, rather than through a centralized server. File sharing is the dominant P2P application on the...
Publish/subscribe (pub/sub) systems are very suitable for the dissemination of dynamic information over the Internet. As dynamic information is usually characterized by a short li...