Near-Video-On-Demand (NVOD) entails the provision of viewing flexibility that approaches that of VOD to an unlimited number of viewers of a "hot" movie at afixed cost to...
: Industrial countries are faced with a growing elderly population. Homecare systems with assistive smart house technology enable elderly to live independently at home. Development...
Due to the autonomous nature of ISPs, the service level agreement (SLA) offering is currently confined to within a single provider network. In this work, we examine some methods o...
—We study two convex optimization problems in a multi-class M/G/1 queue with adjustable service rates: minimizing convex functions of the average delay vector, and minimizing ave...
As the size of distributed systems keeps growing, the peer to peer communication paradigm has been identified as the key to scalability. Peer to peer overlay networks are charact...
Erwan Le Merrer, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Laurent Mas...