Wireless Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols such as IEEE 802.11 use distributed contention resolution mechanisms for sharing the wireless channel. In this environment, selfish...
— A recently proposed active queue management, CHOKe, is stateless, simple to implement, yet surprisingly effective in protecting TCP from UDP flows. As UDP rate increases, even...
Decentralized file-sharing systems like Napster [11] and Gnutella [23] have popularized the peer-to-peer approach [18,20,22], which emphasizes the use of distributed resources in ...
— Popular documents are frequently mirrored on multiple sites in an effort to share the load and reduce clients’ retrieval latencies. However, choosing the best mirror site is ...
We describe the MPI/SX implementation of the MPI-2 standard for one-sided communication (Remote Memory Access) for the NEC SX-5 vector supercomputer. MPI/SX is a non-threaded impl...