In some contexts it may be useful to predict the latency for short TCP transfers. For example, a Web server could automatically tailor its content depending on the network path to...
Martin F. Arlitt, Balachander Krishnamurthy, Jeffr...
Credentials like passwords or cryptographic key pairs are a means to prove one’s identity to a web server. A practical problem in this context is the question of how a user can t...
Tobias Straub, Thilo-Alexander Ginkel, Johannes Bu...
HTML anchors are often surrounded by text that seems to describe the destination page appropriately. The text surrounding a link or the link-context is used for a variety of tasks...
The exponential growth of documents available in the World Wide Web makes it increasingly difficult to discover relevant information on a specific topic. In this context, growing ...
The success of the World Wide Web is boosting the development of multimedia database systems and their integration into the internet. For the documents stored and exchanged in the...