While several research projects have been proposed to use software agents to deal with information overload, their results are not applicable in the existing Web infrastructure ma...
New Web applications are rapidly moving from stand-alone systems to distributed applications that need to interoperate with third party systems, such as external Web services or le...
In this paper, we first propose an analytical model of WLANs (Wireless LANs) with an arbitrary backoff distribution and AIFS (Arbitration Inter-Frame Space). From the analysis, we ...
The large unstructured text collections demand full-text search capabilities from IR systems. Current systems typically allow users only to connect to a single database (or site) ...
Several Ka-band satellite systems have been proposed that will use ATM technology to seamlessly transport Internet traffic. The ATM UBR, GFR and ABR service categories have been de...