Video on Demand (VoD) is a technology used to provide a number of programs to a number of users on request. In developing a VoD system, a fundamental problem is load balancing, wh...
The Open Spectrum approach to spectrum access can achieve near-optimal utilization by allowing devices to sense and utilize available spectrum opportunistically. However, a naive d...
If the frame size of a multimedia encoder is small, Internet Protocol (IP) streaming applications need to pack many encoded media frames in each Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP)...
As the size of parallel computers increases, as well as the number of sources per router node, congestion inside the interconnection network rises significantly. In such systems, ...
TCP-based data flows generate packets and ACKs in two directions, be it in the wireline or wireless networks. In the latter case, packets are typically found in the downlink where...