Latency is increasingly becoming a performance bottleneck for Internet Protocol (IP)
networks, but historically, networks have been designed with aims of maximizing throughput …

The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) carries most Internet traffic, so performance of the
Internet depends to a great extent on how well TCP works. Performance characteristics of a …

One of the major applications of future generation parallel and distributed systems is in big-
data analytics. Data repositories for such applications currently exceed exabytes and are …

We present an approach to easily remove the effects of haze from images. It is based on the
fact that usually airlight scattered by atmospheric particles is partially polarized. Polarization …

Sprout is an end-to-end transport protocol for interactive applications that desire high
throughput and low delay. Sprout works well over cellular wireless networks, where link …

Legacy congestion controls including TCP and its variants are known to perform poorly over
cellular networks due to highly variable capacities over short time scales, self-inflicted …

As peer-to-peer (P2P) emerges as a major paradigm for scalable network application
design, it also exposes significant new challenges in achieving efficient and fair utilization of …

While cloud computing providers offer guaranteed allocations for resources such as CPU
and memory, they do not offer any guarantees for network resources. The lack of network …

Inter-datacenter wide area networks (inter-DC WAN) carry a significant amount of data
transfers that require to be completed within certain time periods, or deadlines. However …

In a load balancing system, user-configurable geographic prefixes are provided. IP address
prefix allocations provided by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) and …