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The concept of Active Queue Management (AQM), broadly used in Internet Congestion Control, has been recently introduced to ad hoc wireless networks as a means to mitigate the severe TCP unfairness across flows. In particular, Neighborhood RED (NRED) has been proposed as an exten…

In recent years, we have witnessed a growing interest in improving the reliability when running parallel batch jobs on the High Performance Computing (HPC) environments. However, existing distributed memory HPC systems do not provide proper quality of service (QoS) controls and …

Multi User Virtual Environments (MUVE) are a new class of Internet application with a significant user base. This thesis adds to our understanding of how MUVE network traffic fits into the mix of Internet traffic, and how this relates to the application's needs. MUVEs differ fro…