In today’s class, we cover the topic of the Internet with emphasis on review of TCP/IP. ( A good reference is [1] and a slightly more readable but less comprehensive is [2] I. NETWORKS Communication networks are usually defined by their size and complexity. From top-down, we have • Wide area networks(WAN) These networks connect computers and other terminals over large distances. They often requ...

This lecture gives a combinatorial market mechanism that is always efficient, budget-balanced, ex post individual rational and ‘almost’ dominant strategy incentive compatible in the complete information case. In the incomplete information case, it is budget-balanced, ex post individual rational and asymptotically efficient and Bayesian incentive compatible. I. THE COMBINATORIAL SELLERS’ BID DOU...

The 4,378-bp putative tetracycline resistance transposon Tn5706 of Pasteurella multocida consists of an internal tet(H)-tetR resistance gene region which is flanked by almost identical insertion elements, IS1596 and IS1597. Two reading frames for proteins of 70 and 228 amino acids were detected in each of these insertion sequence elements. The 228-amino-acid protein revealed homology to transpo...

In this course we survey some of the key recent ideas in networking, with an emphasis on quantitative methods. We also attempt to get a sense of where the field is going. In this introduction, we review historically how the major ideas appeared and their relationships. We then propose a partial panorama of networking research. I. KEY NETWORKING IDEAS Table I lists a number of key ideas in netwo...