Wong, Dillon, and Lin offer fellow researchers and designers/planners an examination of some of the novel practical fault tolerance techniques that can help shorten the end-to-end service roundtrip time (RTT) of a logical Internet channel, to demonstrate how the Internet can be utilized for serious time-critical applications such as online remote diagnosis in telemedicine. Coverage includes an overview of issues associated with the Internet, previous strategies for reducing the service RTT, real-time traffic pattern detection (RTPD) and its importance, dynamic buffer size tuning (DBST), dynamic cache size tuning (DCST), and practical DBST and DCST application cases supported by the RTPD mechanism and empirical results. Wong is with Hong Kong Polytechnic U. Dillon is with Curtin U. of Technology, Australia. Lin is a researcher specializing in dynamic buffer tuning for Internet application; his institutional affiliation is not stated. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
