Peer-to-peer networks have been commonly used for tasks such as file sharing or file distribution. We study a class of cooperative file distribution systems where a file is bro...
—Network flow control regulates the traffic between sources and links based on congestion, and plays a critical role in ensuring satisfactory performance. In recent studies, glob...
— We consider an edge optical burst switching (OBS) node with or without converters, and with no buffering. The OBS node serves a number of users, each connected to the switch ov...
New standards in document representation, like for example SGML, XML, and MPEG-7, compel Information Retrieval to design and implement models and tools to index, retrieve and prese...
Fabio Crestani, Luis M. de Campos, Juan M. Fern&aa...
With reference to the General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), an extension of the Global System Mobile Communication (GSM) addressing packetoriented traffic, this paper contributes t...
Stefano Porcarelli, Felicita Di Giandomenico, Andr...