IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Flow Theory - Networking, IEEE/ACM Transactions on

We develop a simple theory of flows to study the flow of data in real-time computing networks. Flow Theory is based on discrete and nondeterministic mathematics, rather than the customary continuous or probabilistic mathematics. The theory features two types of flows: smooth and uniform, and eight types of flow operators. We prove that, if the input flow to any of these operators is smooth or u...

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Effective Bandwidths with Priorities - Networking, IEEE/ACM Transactions on

The notion of effective bandwidths has provided a useful practical framework for connection admission control and capacity planning in high-speed communication networks. The associated admissible set with a single linear boundary makes it possible to apply stochastic-loss-network (generalized-Erlang) models for capacity planning. In this paper we consider the case of network nodes that use a pr...

Internet Routing Instability - Networking, IEEE/ACM Transactions on

This paper examines the network interdomain routing information exchanged between backbone service providers at the major U.S. public Internet exchange points. Internet routing instability, or the rapid fluctuation of network reachability information, is an important problem currently facing the Internet engineering community. High levels of network instability can lead to packet loss, increase...

European Transactions on Telecommunication: Special Issue on P2P Networking and P2P Services

Peer-to-peer (P2P) services evolved to the most popular applications in today’s Internet. In particular, P2P networks became very popular amid the relentless spread of Gnutella, Kazaa, eDonkey and BitTorrent file sharing applications. Remarkably, only very simple protocols and almost no support by the transport network was required to make these distributed services operable on a large scale in...