Abstract—This work develops a discrete-time dynamical feedback system model for a simplified TCP network with RED control and provides a nonlinear analysis that can help in unde...
Abstract. The definition of a community in social networks varies with applications. To generalize different types of communities, the concept of linkpattern based community was pr...
In this paper, we describe the design and development of a social game called Familiars. Inspired by the daemons in Pullman’s “Dark Material” trilogy, Familiars are animal c...
Ben Kirman, Eva Ferrari, Shaun Lawson, Jonathan Fr...
In current networks, packet losses can occur if routers do not provide sufficiently large buffers. This paper studies how many buffers should be provided in a router to eliminat...
Distributed applications can fail in subtle ways that depend on the state of multiple parts of a system. This complicates the validation of such systems via fault injection, since...
Ramesh Chandra, Ryan M. Lefever, Michel Cukier, Wi...