A current research project at the University of Strathclyde is introduced which aims to better understand the role of distributed engineering design in industry and address presen...
Steven P. MacGregor, Avril I. Thomson, Neal P. Jus...
With the ever-increasing demands on server applications, many new server services are distributed in nature. We evaluated one hundred deployed systems and found that over a one-yea...
Abdur Chowdhury, Ophir Frieder, Paul Luse, Peng-Ju...
Using data collected between August 1999 and January 2000, we examine firm-level pricing strategies for 32 online bookstores. The data cover more than 300 books, including New Yor...
Video prefetching has been proposed recently for the transmission of variable-bit-rate(VBR) video over a packetswitched network. The objective of these protocols is to prefetch fu...
In this paper, we propose router mechanisms to regulate unresponsive best-effort traffic. By unresponsive traffic we mean flows that do not reduce their sending rate in response t...