In this paper, we show through detailed simulations that BitTorrent can be used to assist a server or content distribution network (CDN) for large-scale streaming delivery. Speciï...
Ryan LaFortune, Christopher D. Carothers, William ...
— Effective and efficient management of wireless network resources is attracting more and more research attention, due to the rapid growing deployment of wireless mesh and ad hoc...
In this paper, we focus on addressing the tradeoffs between timeliness, accuracy and cost for applications requiring real-time information collection in distributed real-time envi...
In today’s computing environment, unauthorized accesses and misuse of critical data can be catastrophic to personal users, businesses, emergency services, and even national defe...
Jianfeng Peng, Chuan Feng, Haiyan Qiao, Jerzy W. R...
In this paper we present a new approach to derive heavy-traffic asymptotics for polling models. We consider the classical cyclic polling model with exhaustive or gated service at ...