Application layer multicast (ALM) provides a low-cost solution for multicast over the Internet. It overcomes the deployment hurdle of IP multicast by moving all multicast related ...
In this paper, we examine the operation of a node relaying packets from a number of users to a destination node. We assume that the relay does not have packets of its own, the traf...
Nikolaos Pappas, Apostolos Traganitis, Anthony Eph...
Service Level Agreements (SLAs) is currently one of the major research topics in Grid Computing. Among many system components for the supporting of SLA-aware Gridbased workflow, t...
In todays IP networks most of the network control and management tasks are performed at the end points. As a result, many important network functions cannot be optimized due to la...
— Multicast services can be provided either as a basic network service or as an application-layer service. Higher level multicast implementations often provide more sophisticated...