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Half-Pipe Anchoring: An Efficient Mechanism for TCP Connection Handoff
White Papers This paper presents the design and implementation of Split-Stack, a novel and efficient mechanism for handing off TCP connections that enables fine-grain load balancing among the servers of a cluster.
[December 20, 2007, 0:01]
Antikythera Mechanism just keeps getting better
Blog They had all the bits), I have nothing but love for the Antikythera Mechanism - the 2000 year old precision clockwork astronomical device discovered in a Grecian shipwreck. As someone whose boyish fantasies ran along the lines of "What would have...
[July 31, 2008, 13:08]
A Novel Mechanism in MPLS Network Under Adversarial Uncertainty
White Papers Aiming at this problem in MPLS Network, this paper proposes a novel mechanism in MPLS network under adversarial uncertainty, making use of the theory of artificial intelligence. Secondly, during the process of data transmission, the transmission...
[June 25, 2008, 1:01]
Congestion Control Mechanism of TCP for Achieving Predictable Throughput
White Papers This paper proposes a congestion control mechanism of TCP for achieving predictable throughput. The demand of Internet users for diversified services has increased due to the rapid development of the Internet, and applications requiring QoS...
[December 21, 2007, 0:01]
Content Based Billing: The Data Delivery Mechanism That Enables Maximum Revenue at Deployment
White Papers This paper elaborates on the Content Based Billing system, its data delivery mechanism and how operators can maximize their revenue by deploying such a feature into their network. With the implementation of packet-based data and next generation...
[August 15, 2009, 1:20]
TCP Nice: A Mechanism for Background Transfers
White Papers Nice provides a mechanism to improve application performance by harnessing this capacity in a non-interfering manner. This paper presents an end-to-end congestion control algorithm optimized to support background transfers.
[October 31, 2007, 0:00]
An Extenics-Based Load Balancing Mechanism in Distributed Computing Systems
White Papers There are four policies consisted in the proposed Extenics-based Load Balancing Mechanism (ELBM). In distributed computing systems, load balancing is one of the most important factors that affect the system performance.
[July 10, 2008, 1:01]
Implementation Experiments of the TCP Proxy Mechanism
White Papers In the TCP overlay network, TCP proxy is a fundamental mechanism that transparently splits a TCP connection between sender and receiver hosts into multiple TCP connection at some nodes in the network and relays data packets from the sender host to...
[August 25, 2009, 10:14]
A Control Theoretical Approach to a Window-Based Flow Control Mechanism With Explicit Congestion Notification
White Papers A window-based flow control mechanism is a sort of feedback-based congestion control mechanisms, and has been widely used in current TCP/IP networks. Recently proposed TCP Vegas is another version of the TCP mechanism and has potential to achieve...
[December 6, 2007, 0:01]
A Window-Based Flow Control Mechanism Based on TCP Vegas With Explicit Congestion Notification
White Papers A window-based flow control mechanism is a sort of feedback-based congestion control mechanisms, and has been widely used in TCP/IP networks. Recently proposed TCP Vegas is another version of the TCP mechanism and has potential to achieve much...
[December 6, 2007, 0:01]
Analysis of a Window-Based Flow Control Mechanism Based on TCP Vegas in Heterogeneous Network Environment
White Papers In the previous studies, steady-state behavior of a window-based flow control mechanism based on TCP Vegas has been analyzed for a simple network topology. Another version of TCP called TCP Vegas has been proposed and studied in the literature.
[December 6, 2007, 0:01]
A Load Balancing Mechanism With Verification
White Papers It derives a compensation and bonus type mechanism that solves the load balancing problem in distributed systems in which computers are characterized by linear latency functions. The paper proves that this mechanism is truthful and satisfies the...
[July 10, 2008, 1:01]
Rule-Based Defense Mechanism Against Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks
White Papers There is therefore a need to create a lighter mechanism to detect and respond to such new and transformed types of attacks with greater speed. This paper proposes a rule-based defense mechanism against DDoS attacks.
[October 2, 2009, 1:23]
A Caching Mechanism to Improve the Reliability of Multicasting in Multihop MANET
White Papers This paper presents a mechanism to selectively cache the packets with the Forwarding Group members. Reliable multicasting takes help of re-transmissions from the source, to recover lost packets .This imposes a huge overhead on the bandwidth...
[August 13, 2007, 15:14]
A Truthful Mechanism for Fair Load Balancing in Distributed Systems
White Papers Using techniques from mechanism design theory a mechanism for fair load balancing is designed in heterogeneous distributed systems. It proves that this mechanism is truthful and satisfies the voluntary participation condition.
[July 10, 2008, 1:01]
The Cumulus Assessment Module as General SLA Evaluation Mechanism for Telecommunication Services
White Papers Therefore, a general mechanism to assess their fulfillment is extremely helpful for both contract partners, but by no means easy to be realized. Service Level Agreements (SLAs) form the heart of every business relation between service users and...
[August 4, 2006, 1:00]
MIC: An Interdomain Call Mechanism for Linux
White Papers MIC (Mechanism for Interdomain Calls) is an implementation of the lightweight remote procedure call mechanism in Linux. The new system calls are provided by a loadable module which facilitates the portability of this mechanism between different...
[April 18, 2007, 1:00]
A Network Connectivity Power-Saving Mechanism for Mobile Devices in DLNA Home Networks
White Papers This paper proposes a Network Connectivity Power Saving (NC-PS) mechanism for mobile devices in Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) home networks, which allows them to conserve power without compromising their higher-layer functionality.
[March 29, 2008, 0:01]
Modeling TCP Throughput Over Wired/Wireless Heterogeneous Networks for Receiver-Based ACK Splitting Mechanism
White Papers The paper had proposed receiver-based ACK splitting mechanism to solve that problem previously. The mechanism does not need modifications to the sender TCP or the base station. Recently, heterogeneous networks with wired and wireless links are...
[December 27, 2007, 0:01]
Antikythera Mechanism just keeps getting better
Blog Comment A fascinating subject.I've often wondered how much we actualy do know about our past, maybe we have had technological societys before, I mean thousands, hundred thousands, or even millions of years ago.
[July 31, 2008, 19:52]
