Long-term service agreements (LTSA) for the maintenance of capital-intensive equipment such as gas turbines and aircraft engines are gaining wide acceptance. A typical LTSA contra...
In a free of charge or flat-rate Internet access environment, there often exists abusive and unfair usage of network resources. In this paper, the Internet access by the dormitory...
Tsung-Ching Lin, Yeali S. Sun, Shi-Chung Chang, Sh...
Current uncertainties in the total solar irradiance (TSI) and aerosol radiative forcings of climate are so large that they limit quantitative evaluation of climate models against ...
Michael Mishchenko, Brian Cairns, Greg Kopp, Hal M...
— We consider a peer-to-peer network where nodes can send and receive files amongst their peers. File requests are generated randomly, and each new file can correspond to a dif...
Abstract—Resource sharing on the Internet is becoming increasingly pervasive. Recently, there is growing interest in distributed systems such as peer-to-peer and grid, with effor...