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Best-effort delivery

Known as: Best-effort service, Best-effort network, Best effort 
Best-effort delivery describes a network service in which the network does not provide any guarantees that data is delivered or that a user is given… 
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Circuit switchingEnd-to-end principleInternet transitPer-hop behaviour

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Network performance

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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Why does it pay to be selfish in a MANET?
Routing protocols for a mobile ad hoc network have assumed that all mobile nodes voluntarily participate in forwarding others… 
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Absolutely Positively on Time: What Would It Take?
Despite considerable progress in software and hardware techniques, many recent computing advances do more harm than good when… 
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Comparative analysis of new high data rate wireless communication technologies "From Wi-Fi to WiMAX"
The aim of this paper is, by a precise description of the different existing and developing wireless networks, to determine how… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Energy‐aware delay‐constrained routing in wireless sensor networks
Recent years has witnessed a growing interest in the applications of unattended wireless sensor networks. Due to the limitation… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Quality of service scheduling in cable and broadband wireless access systems
Several last mile high-speed technologies have been explored to provide Internet access and multimedia services to end users… 
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Utility-based power control in cellular wireless systems
Distributed power control algorithms for systems with hard SIR constraints may diverge when infeasibility arises. We present a… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Distributed power control and spreading gain allocation in CDMA data networks
We study the radio resource allocation problem of distributed joint transmission power control and spreading gain allocation in a… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Scalable delivery of Web pages using cyclic best-effort multicast
The World Wide Web (WWW) has gained tremendously in popularity. In this work we explore the use of UDP, best-effort multicast as… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Transport and Display Mechanisms for Multimedia Conferencing Across Packet-Switched Networks
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Economic Incentives for Countertrade
This paper examines countertrade using standard economic theory. We show that in many circumstances countertrade is a rational… 
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