Status of This Memo This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract A frame relay pseudowire is a me...

Many organizations accustomed to the convenience of domestic frame relay service are considering international service to expand their markets. Global Frame relay services facilitate this process by providing a means of linking remote LANs to international sites. A growing market demand ensures the continued increase of service nodes worldwide. Based on revenue figures, AT&T (Warren NJ) control...

The advent of Web 2. 0 has been instrumental in paradigm shift of how people communicate? These communications are a rich source of relationship data. Analyzing such a vast amount of relationship data is not a trivial task. Social Network Analysis is a promising field of research to take advantage of this huge pool of relationship data. But before this data is analyzed from Social Network Analy...

Smartphones have been equipped with the cameras that can shoot HD videos, and the video chat apps such as Skype are becoming popular. We can, therefore, intuitively predict the trend that users are expecting to enjoy HD video chats via utilizing their smartphones. Most of the current Internet services, however, cannot support the live HD video transmissions because of their low uplink rate. In ...

The internet has opened a new social space for communication. The present work studies interpersonal relationships in cyberspace using the chat channel as an interaction medium. Data obtained have outlined the sociodemographic and personality profile of internet users who engage in online chats as well as group self-perception, chatters' use habits, motivations to interact online, and the chatt...

Cyber-criminals around the world are using Internet-based communication channels to establish trade relationships and complete fraudulent transactions. Furthermore, they control and operate publicly accessible information channels that serve as marketplaces for the underground economy. In this work, we present a novel system for automatically monitoring these channels and their participants. Ou...

Distributed applications deployed over the Internet, such as in grids, clouds, or P2P networks, crucially depend on the speed of their Internet connections. A common solution is to exploit underlying network parallelism via multipath routing within an application-level overlay network. Accurately selecting appropriate relay hosts within an overlay, however, remains a challenging problem, freque...

Status of This Memo This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract This memo defines a new Relay Ag...

Status of This Memo This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract This memo defines a new Subscrib...