The applications in many scientific fields, like bioinformatics and high-energy physics etc, increasingly demand the computing infrastructures can provide more computing power and...
Xiaohui Wei, Zhaohui Ding, Wilfred W. Li, Osamu Ta...
This paper describes the design and implementation of a network virtualization substrate (NVS) for effective virtualization of wireless resources in WiMAX networks. Virtualization...
Ravi Kokku, Rajesh Mahindra, Honghai Zhang, Sampat...
The Web Service Resource Framework (WSRF) was announced in January 2004 as a new way for manipulating "stateful resources" to perform grid computing tasks using Web Serv...
Fair-queuing schedulers provide clients with bandwidth or latency guarantees provided they are well-behaved i.e. the requested service is always within strict predefined limits. V...
We consider the problem of minimizing staffing costs in an inbound call center, while maintaining an acceptable level of service in multiple time periods. The problem is complicat...