—Many large-scale distributed systems can benefit from a service that allows them to select among alternative nodes based on their relative network positions. A variety of appro...
—The call-level performance modelling and evaluation of 3G cellular networks is important for the proper network dimensioning and efficient use of the network resources, such as ...
Communication delay is a key source of uncertainty in distributed systems. Existing approaches to reduce this uncertainty focus on maintaining sufficient surplus bandwidth; appli...
Many Internet applications use overlay networks as their basic facilities, like resource sharing, collaborative computing, and so on. Considering the communication cost, most over...
Multiplayer gaming over the Internet continues to grow in popularity, despite a lack of Quality of Service (QoS) mechanisms. Future QoS-aware networks such as those based on the D...