— Many network operators offer some type of tiered service, in which users may select only from a small set of service levels (tiers). Such a service has the potential to simplif...
Service Level Agreement Management in the telecommunications domain consists of a set of mechanisms for provisioning and monitoring services according to requirements given by eit...
Identifying the set of resources that are expected to receive the majority of requests in the near future, namely hot set, is at the basis of most content management strategies of...
Our research addresses the efficient transfer of large data across wide-area networks, focusing on applications like remote visualization and real-time collaboration. To attain h...
Network Control is currently carried out mainly by means of signalling protocols. Although these protocols are robust and facilitate standardisation, they present several drawback...