On the remote server problem or more about TCP acknowledgments

On the remote server problem or more about TCP acknowledgments

We study an on-line problem that is motivated by service calls management in a remote support center. When a customer calls the remote support center of a software company, a technician opens a service request and assigns it a severity rating. This request is then transferred to the appropriate support engineer (SE) who establishes a connection to the customer’s site and uses remote diagnostic ...

Multicast TCP via concast merged acknowledgments

One of the challenges in reliable multicast is approximating or replicating TCP’s congestion control algorithm. This has led to various proposals to adapt TCP itself for use over multicast. The drawback of these multicast TCP services is that they place significant processing load on the sender and they fail to deal with the problem of ACK implosion. This paper shows how concast, a network-laye...

More precise view about remote DNA replication

The works of Luc Montagnier and Peter Gariaev suggests remote replication of DNA is possible. The developments in the model of dark DNA allow to imagine a detailed mechanism for how water can represent DNA and how DNA could be transcribed to dark DNA essentially the analog of DNA-RNA transcription would be in question. The transcription/association represents a rule and rules are represented in...

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A Note on the Server Problem

We consider the k-server problem, with the additional assumptions that (1) the adversary makes only lazy moves (if it has a free server, not matched with our server, then it puts a request on such a server without moving it), and (2) whenever all our servers are matched with his servers, then he announces it to our algorithm. We show a k-competitive algorithm against such an adversary. As with ...