4 papers
AppStreamer: Reducing Storage Requirements of Mobile Games through Predictive Streaming
Nawanol Theera-Ampornpunt, Shikhar Suryavansh, Sameer Manchanda +5
Storage has become a constrained resource on smartphones. Gaming is a popular activity on mobile devices and the explosive growth in the number of games coupled with their growing…
Eiffel: Efficient and Flexible Software Packet Scheduling
Ahmed Saeed, Yimeng Zhao, Nandita Dukkipati +4
Packet scheduling determines the ordering of packets in a queuing data structure with respect to some ranking function that is mandated by a scheduling policy. It is the core compo…
Mobility as an Alternative Communication Channel: A Survey
Benjamin Baron, Prométhée Spathis, Marcelo Dias de Amorim +2
We review the research literature investigating systems in which mobile entities can carry data while they move. These entities can be either mobile by nature (e.g., human beings a…
ex uno pluria: The Service-Infrastructure Cycle, Ossification, and the Fragmentation of the Internet
Mostafa H. Ammar
In this article I will first argue that a Service-Infrastructure Cycle is fundamental to networking evolution. Networks are built to accommodate certain services at an expected sca…