My PhD thesis title is 'Enhancing HTTP to Improve Page and Object Retrieval Time With Congested Networks.'
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R. L. R. Mattson and S. Ghosh, "HTTP(P2P): a transaction based (HTTP) peer-to-peer protocol for the dissemination of Web-objects in congested networks," presented at Cluster Computing and the Grid, 2004. CCGrid 2004., Chicago, IL., 2004.
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R. L. R. Mattson and S. Ghosh, "HTTP-MPLEX: An application layer multiplexing protocol for the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)", Presented at The 20th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences October 26-28, 2005 - Istanbul, Turkey. Published in: New Trends in Computer Science by Imperial College Press, London, UK.
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R. L. R. Mattson and S. Ghosh, "A Performance Analysis of Page Retrieval with HTTP-MPLEX on Asymmetric Links", Presented at The 14th IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications and 8th IEEE Malaysia International Conference on Communications 14th - 17th May, 2007, Penang, Malaysia Published in: IEEEXplore (and conference proceedings).
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R. L. R. Mattson and S. Ghosh, "A performance analysis of page and object retrieval using HTTP-MPLEX in symmetric network environments", Presented at The 6th International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS 2007) July 11-13, 2007, Melbourne, Australia.
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R. L. R. Mattson and S. Ghosh, "HTTP-MPLEX: An Enhanced Hypertext Transfer Protocol and its Performance Evaluation.", Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Volume 32, Issue 4, July 2009, Pages 925-939, ISSN 1084-8045.
[DOI: 10.1016/j.jnca.2008.10.001]
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