With multimedia applications, the Internet traffic increased a lot in volume, but also suffered major alterations in its nature, requesting other network services besides the curr...
Mirror sites approach has been proposed recently for reducing the access delay and providing load balancing in network servers. In the mirror site approach a file, such as a multi...
With standard assumptions the routing and wavelength assignment problem (RWA) can be viewed as a Markov Decision Process (MDP). The problem, however, defies an exact solution bec...
A new medium access control (MAC) protocol for mobile wireless communications is presented and investigated. We explore, via an extensive simulation study, the performance of the ...
With a changing structure of networks and application systems due to the requirements of decentralised enterprises and open service markets, distributed systems with rapidly incre...