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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Peering"”.
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The economics of internet peering interconnections
… links: (a) transit (customer-provider) and (b) peering links. Recent studies have shown that despite being optional for most ASes, a rich and dynamic peering fabric exists among ASes. Peering has also grown as one of the main instruments for catching up with asymmetric traffic due to CDNs, …
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Peering into Candida albicans pir protein function
The fungal cell wall, which primarily is comprised of protein and polymeric carbohydrate, maintains cell structure and protects the fungal cell from the environment. Cell wall structure is an avid field of study because the cell wall is an important antifungal drug target. Pir proteins (proteins …
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Peering In: Improving Existing Buildings with Colorful Increments
<p>Existing office buildings’ embodied energy, history and culture offer something a newly constructed building cannot. On the other hand, new office buildings’ adoption of new technologies and building philosophies offer a range of sustainable efficiencies previously unavailable. Combining these …
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Peering Into The Future: Three Essays on the Nascent Phenomenon of Collaborative Consumption
The primary objective of this dissertation is to examine the theoretical and practical implications of the collaborative consumption phenomenon for individuals, businesses and society. To accomplish this goal, a research approach at three levels of analysis is used to explore how market …
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Game Theoretic Models of Connectivity Among Internet Access Providers
… Two main forms of interconnection have emerged — peering under which the providers carry each other's traffic without any payments and transit under which the downstream provider pays the upstream provider a certain settlement payment for carrying its traffic. This dissertation develops three game …
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Peering into the shadows: using the four branches of the Mabinogi to explore perceptions of women in medieval Welsh society
There is a lack of sources for medieval Wales, and for the lives of women in particular. The objective of this dissertation, therefore, is to establish whether a close reading of the Mabinogi can provide any detail about the ways medieval Welsh women were perceived by their contemporaries. The …
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Network Formation and Economic Applications
… We also look at three network applications. A peering contract is an arrangement between Internet Service Providers under which they exchange traffic with one another free of cost. We analyze incentives for peering contracts among Internet service providers using the notion of pairwise …
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Increasing DOGMA Scaling Through Clustering
… the peer-to-peer abilities of DOGMA to include peering client server communication by creating dynamic clusters of clients. The client clusters aggregate their communication with only one client communicating with the server directly. This further reduces the network traffic and server usage …
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The regulation of internet interconnection : assessing network market power
… proposed mergers, network neutrality, Internet peering, and last mile competition have generated much discussion about whether Internet interconnection regulation is warranted. In order to determine whether such regulation is necessary, policymakers need appropriate metrics to help gauge a …
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Reducing short flows' latency in the internet
… routing policies, 54.9% is caused by peering policies, and 25.6% is caused by intra-domain routing policies. This result shows that the main component of the path inflation is caused by peering policies which may require more attention for future research. Besides this, we also analyze …
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Gritting Teeth: A Memoir of Unhealthy Love
… ulterior motives, or the woman/man interested in peering into the recesses of a neurotic, obsessive, and generally warped female mind, the writer offers this memoir.</p>
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ON THE BREAK-EVEN POINTS BETWEEN CLOUD-ASSISTED AND TRADITIONAL ROUTING
… traffic towards these prefixes. Multi-homing and peering practices as well as the demand on more routing flexibility (e.g., source routing, multi-path routing, QoS routing) have been contributing to this routing complexity. Operators rightfully expect more flexibility and programmability in router …
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Legendary metal smiths and early English literature
… the study began, a reading which, rather than peering backwards into the pagan past, looks forward to subsequent and more familiar examples of the forge in literature.
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Bridging infrared and visible light with nano-optics
… and help us resolve the birth of stars by peering deeper into space than ever before with the James Webb Space Telescope. However, the detection of IR photons presents significant challenges, with existing technologies being inefficient, prohibitively expensive, and impractical. To overcome …
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Content Management in Planet-Scale Video CDNs
… CDNs. We optimize the proper server count, peering bandwidth, and server configuration as the disk drives and the necessary SSD and/or RAM cache layers to sustain the intensive I/O load. The optimization framework carefully captures the interaction of cache layers inside each server, the …
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Reflections of Reflections of Reflections: A Multi-Case Study of Women Educators' Callings to the High Arctic
… view of her life's work through calling by peering even more intimately into the looking glass of her past. Each felt transformed through and by her calling as educator in the High Arctic, becoming one with people of differing cultural backgrounds and beliefs. Each also feels she has given …
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Topological characteristics of IP networks
… disassortative network, to a soft-hierarchical, peering-oriented, assortative network. This change is indicative of evolving business relationships amongst organisations.
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(in)Equality.
… The exhibition includes portraits peering down from above, illuminated by projected patterns and manipulated messages from Nike’s “Equality.” (2017). The purpose of this thesis paper is to describe the elements of identity, marginalization, and personal reaction to advertising, as …
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A framework for analyzing the sustainability of peer produced science commons
… development are also addressed, including the peering of provision and production activities in contemporary research settings, polycentric models of governance, and the emergence of new types of commons models, including the knowledge commons. The results of this dissertation demonstrate that …
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Blazing Turquoise and Coral Light Jewels of Veiled Empowerment: Buddha Ye shes mTsho rgyal (ཡེ་ཤེས་མཚོ་རྒྱལ) and Saint Hildegard von Bingen in the Lotus of Ever-Excellent Feminist Dialogue
… frameworks. Second, I explore Meyda Yeğenoğlu’s “peering behind the veil” to recognize false colonial paradigms that she questions and renders a counter-Orientalist narrative. Finally, I arrest further systemic harmful structures of suppression of women by using my device of “rendering them …
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