In presence of reconfigurable environments, such as AmI systems, the orchestration and coordination of more devices involved in the execution of services requested by users is of...
—An admission control algorithm should be properly designed to guarantee the Quality of Service (QoS) in wireless mesh networks (WMNs). Based on channel busyness ratio, an admiss...
—Multithreaded servers with cache-coherent shared memory are the dominant type of machines used to run critical network services and database management systems. To achieve the h...
Video-on-demand (VoD) service providers are intensely interested in transport, storage, streaming and caching in content delivery networks. Today’s 5,000-hour library may grow t...
The design of complex systems, e.g., telecom services, is nowadays usually based on the integration of components (COTS), loosely coupled in distributed architectures. When compon...