Mobile ad hoc wireless networks are expected to play a very important role in the future. Therefore, extensive research has been conducted to understand and analyze these networks under various conditions of strategic ...

With a growing number of portable computing devices like laptops and personal digital assistants (PDA), the need for seamless connectivity to the global Internet is driving the acceptance of different mobility solutions. ...

Mobile computing is becoming increasingly important due to the rise in the number of portable computers and the desire to have continuous network connectivity to the Internet irrespective of the physical location of the ...

MPLS VPNs are one of the most widely deployed VPN architectures in the global Internet. However, a major prerequisite for MPLS VPN is the support for MPLS in all the provider core routers. The situation becomes complicated ...

A novel technique is introduced to graphically analyze the runtime behavior of block replacement algorithms used in cache controllers. The new method allows a behavioral comparison of two or more algorithms, previously ...

Mobile ad-hoc networks have been envisioned as the future of wireless networking technology. Continuous efforts are being put to improve the performance of ad-hoc networks in terms of path selection, quality of service ...

Wireless LANs are gaining importance at a very rapid pace. The idea of being mobile and connected to the Internet is driving new innovations in this area. With the recent innovations in the field of multimedia networks, ...

An economical solution to the need for unlimited amounts of fast memory is a memory hierarchy, which takes advantage of locality and cost/performance of memory technologies. Most of the advanced block replacement algorithms ...