Because of the increasing need for application measurement, several vendors are offering products to track and record End-To-End Response Time. The question now becomes “where to measure” instead of “how to measure.” Measuring application response time at several points can produce an overwhelming amount of data but does not guarantee any meaningful information from the business point-of-view. ...

The proliferation of telecommunication services and the need to manage quality of service on an end-to-end basis require an approach for automatically selecting services that provide suucient quality of service at minimal cost. An agent-based approach is appropriate for such a purpose. For this reason, this paper presents a social carrier recommendation method, which is an essential component o...

Wide-area distributed applications are frequently limited by the performance of Internet data transfer. We argue that the principle cause of this effect is the poor interaction between host-centric congestion control algorithms and the realities of today's Internet traffic and infrastructure. In particular, when the duration of a network flow is short, then using end-to-end feedback to determin...

We present a learnt system for multi-view stereopsis. In contrast to recent learning based methods for 3D reconstruction, we leverage the underlying 3D geometry of the problem through feature projection and unprojection along viewing rays. By formulating these operations in a differentiable manner, we are able to learn the system end-to-end for the task of metric 3D reconstruction. End-to-end l...

We consider the problem of creating secure and resourceefficient blockchain networks i.e., enable a group of mutually distrusting participants to efficiently share state and then agree on an append-only history of valid operations on that shared state. This paper proposes a new approach to build such blockchain networks. Our key observation is that an append-only, tamper-resistant ledger (when ...

TCP tunnel is a technology that aggregates and transfers packets sent between end hosts as a single or multiple TCP connections. By using a TCP tunnel, the fairness among aggregate flows can be improved and several protocols can be transparently transmitted through an Internet firewall. However, since most applications running on end hosts generally use TCP, two TCP congestion controls (i.e., e...

Critical embedded systems are often designed as a set of real-time tasks, running on shared computing modules, and communicating through networks. Because of their critical nature, such systems have to meet strict timing properties. To help the designers to prove the correctness of their system, the real-time systems community has developed numerous approaches for analysing the worst case scena...

Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are believed to be the most powerful explosions that have occurred in the Universe since the Big Bang and are a mystery to the scientific community. “Swift”, a NASA mission that includes international participation, was designed and built in preparation for a 2003 launch to help to determine the origin of Gamma Ray Bursts. Locating the position in the sky where a burst o...