There are two basic types of interconnection agreements between providers in the Internet: peering and transit. A decision every Internet network service provider (INSP) has to ma...
The contemporary high-speed networks, e.g. the Internet and asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) networks provide a convenient and cost-effective communication platform to carry the e...
Distributed optimal traffic engineering in the presence of multiple paths has been found to be a difficult problem to solve. In this paper, we introduce a new approach in an attem...
Differentiated Services (DiffServ) is a promising architecture for the next generation Internet due to its scalable and flexible design. In DiffServ, scheduling disciplines play an...
We show that inclusion order and single-step inclusion coincide for higher Bruhat orders B(n; 2), i.e., B(n; 2) = B (n; 2). Mathematics Subject Classi cations (1991). 06A06, 51G05,...