The convergence on IP of a wide variety of traffic types has strengthened the need for service differentiation. Service differentiation relies on two equally important components:...
—The newly emerged vehicular ad hoc network adopts the contention based IEEE 802.11 DCF as its MAC. While it has been extensively studied in the stationary indoor environment (e....
In open settings, the participants are autonomous and there is no central authority to ensure the felicity of their interactions. When agents interact in such settings, each relie...
—This paper presents the CONTRACT framework to address a fundamental deficiency of the IP network control plane, namely the lack of coordination between an IGP and other control...
Zheng Cai, Florin Dinu, Jie Zheng, Alan L. Cox, T....
The spreading of multicast technology enables the development of group communication and so dealing with digital streams becomes more and more common over the Internet. Given the f...