The soft real-time nature of large scale web applications in today's datacenters, combined
with their distributed workflow, leads to deadlines being associated with the datacenter …

Abstract In recent years, Data Centers Networks (DCNs) have been deployed to serve as the
backbone to support the extensive variety of services offered through the Internet like social …

The past few years have witnessed a lot of debate on how large Internet router buffers
should be. The widely believed rule-of-thumb used by router manufacturers today mandates …

A perfect bidirectional communication network is a common assumption in smart grids.
However, it is unrealistic, especially in the neighborhood area network of microgrids. Due to …

Load factor based congestion control schemes have shown to enhance network
performance, in terms of utilization, packet loss and delay. In these schemes, using more …

Despite decades of operational experience and focused research efforts, standards for
sizing and configuring buffers in network systems remain controversial. An extreme example …

Simulation is a widely used mechanism for validating the theoretical models of networking
and communication systems. Although the claims made based on simulations are …

Given a suitably parametrized family of equilibrium models and a higher level criterion by
which to measure an equilibrium state, mathematical programs with equilibrium constraints …

With the Internet offering a single best-effort service, there have been numerous proposals of
diversified network services that align better with the divergent needs of different distributed …

Data center networks are characterized by high link speeds, low propagation delays, small
switch buffers, and temporally clustered arrivals of many concurrent TCP flows fulfilling data …