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Upload and download traffic often coexist in mobile networks. However, TCP download throughput could be substantially degraded by upload traffic even if the downlink is not the bottleneck. Previous works such as RSFC and TCP-RRE can substantially improve TCP download throughput in the presence of concurrent TCP upload flows, albeit at the expense of significantly degraded upload throughput performance...
Due to the widespread use of broadband communication media, it is often the case that the conventional TCP cannot fully utilize such broad bandwidth; hence, many improvements on TCP itself and a lot of accelerating methods which use multiple TCP flows have been proposed. In addition, video hosting services on the Internet as a new medium have become popular, and progressive downloading methods, which...
Applications are typically offered a single, generic option for end-to-end transport, which most commonly consists of the particular flavor of TCP that runs in the server host. This arrangement does not suit well the diversity of the requirements that individual applications pose on network metrics like throughput and delay. Link-Coupled TCP (LCTCP) is a new transport solution that leverages the architectural...
In the era of global-scale services, analytical queries are performed on datasets that span multiple data centers (DCs). Due to the scarce and expensive inter-DC bandwidth, various methods have been proposed to reduce either the traffic cost or the completion time for those analytics queries. However, current methods make no attempt to maximize the number of successfully served query requests. Moreover,...
Recently there has been increased research interest in developing adaptive control systems for autonomous vehicles. This study presents a comparative evaluation of two distinct approaches to automated intersection management for a multi-agent system of autonomous vehicles. The first is a centralized heuristic control approach using an extension of the Autonomous Intersection Management (AIM) system...
The core concept of Smart Grid (SG) is to enhance the level of intelligent management for power grid by the application of modern information, communication and other advanced technologies. With wide coverage, high reliability and large capacity, the Long-Term-Evolution (LTE) network is widely used in the SG wireless communication. However, SG is different from traditional cellular networks. Many...
Cross-technology communication (CTC) techniques are introduced in recent literatures to explore the opportunities of collaboration between heterogeneous wireless technologies, such as WiFi and ZigBee. Their applications include context-aware services and global channel coordination. However, state-of-the-art CTC schemes either suffer from channel inefficiency, low throughput, or disruption to existing...
Optical switches have been drawing attention due to their large data bandwidth and low power consumption. However, scheduling policies need to account for the schedule reconfiguration delay of optical switches to achieve good performance. The Adaptive MaxWeight policy achieves optimal throughput for switches with nonzero reconfiguration delay, and has been shown in simulation to have good delay performance...
Recent research on CTC (cross-technology communication) demonstrates the viability of direct coordination among heterogeneous devices (e.g., WiFi and ZigBee) with incompatible physical layers. Although encouraging, current solutions suffer from either severe inefficiency in channel utilization or low throughput using limited beacons. To address these limitations, this paper presents C-Morse, which...
We consider the problem of throughput-optimal packet dissemination, in the presence of an arbitrary mix of unicast, broadcast, multicast and anycast traffic, in a general wireless network. We propose an online dynamic policy, called Universal Max-Weight (UMW), which solves the above problem efficiently. To the best of our knowledge, UMW is the first throughput-optimal algorithm of such versatility...
Communication networks are large distributed systems designed to send messages from one location to another. Messages are generated by a source and transmitted through a server to their destinations. Servers are connected by the transmission links through which the data flows, and each server has a certain queue capacity. When the number of incoming messages exceeds the capacity of the server or the...
In data centers, micro-burst is a common traffic pattern. The packet dropping caused by it usually leads to serious performance degradations. Therefore, much attention has been paid to avoiding buffer overflow caused by micro-burst traffic. In particular, ECN is widely used in data centers to keep persistent queue occupancy low, so that enough buffer space can be available as headroom to absorb micro-burst...
Network providers now want to enable users to define their own flow priorities, and commercial devices already implement this ability. However, it has been shown that directly applying arbitrary user-defined priorities can fundamentally destabilize a network. In this paper, we show that it is possible to apply user-defined priorities while keeping the network stable. We introduce U-BP, a scalable...
The Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) is specified to cope with the changing network conditions and provide an adaptive bit-rate HTTP-based streaming solution. While there have been many researches of rate adaptation algorithms on adaptive HTTP streaming, much of the work is focused on Video on Demand (VoD) service — which is not same as live streaming. It is generally preferred to minimize...
Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) assists in monitoring of the health conditions of a patient. The monitored data of a patient require diverse QoS and need to be delivered to the coordinator without delay and packet loss. In this context, this paper proposes a MAC Superframe structure which allocates channels based on the severities of the detected data of a patient and transmit immediately without...
Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication is considered one of the essential elements of the Internet of Things (IoT) for enabling objects to communicate over potentially large distances. It is predicted to be the dominant source of traffic in 5G networks. To enable M2M communications on LTE networks, which is considered the main cellular access technology for M2M communications, several issues need...
This article describes a new latch-based asynchronous resilient bundled data design template. In environments with normally distributed combinational delays, Sharp achieves 8% higher throughput than state of the art controllers in simulation.
The increasing multimedia traffic and limited spectrum resource in Geosynchronous (GEO) satellite systems starve for an efficient Call Admission Control (CAC) scheme, which aims to provide acceptable Quality of Service (Qos) to massive users, however, the throughput may not be guaranteed. In order to maximize the total throughput of communication system, a dynamic CAC scheme, named Maximizing Throughput...
Active queue management (AQM) is broadly accepted as the tool of choice for tackling bufferbloat (the accumulation of large queueing delays) in network buffers. CoDel and PIE are considered two of the most promising AQM schemes, but little has been done to adopt them in cellular networks, which are particularly plagued by bufferbloat. This is partly due to the lack of adequate evaluation of their...
Real-time voice and video streaming applications require a certain Quality of Service (QoS) level for providing user satisfaction. As Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN's) are not designed for such applications, assessing the communication's QoS level is a challenging task. Sudden Onset Disasters (SODs) poses even a greater challenge as the QoS level must be assessed without generating traffic or...
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