Service providers and their customers agree on certain quality of service guarantees through Service Level Agreements (SLA). An SLA contains one or more Service Level Objectives (S...
Yuan Chen, Subu Iyer, Xue Liu, Dejan S. Milojicic,...
This paper proposes a new scheduling policy for cluster-based servers called DAS (Deferred Assignment Scheduling). The main idea in DAS is to defer scheduling as much as possible,...
Victoria Ungureanu, Benjamin Melamed, Michael N. K...
With the advent of grid technologies, scientists and engineers are building more and more complex applications to utilize distributed grid resources. The core grid services provid...
Karen M. McCann, Maurice Yarrow, Adrian De Vivo, P...
Economic principles are increasingly being suggested for addressing some complex issues related to distributed resource allocation for QoS (Quality of Service) enhancement. Many p...
Wireless sensor networks are comprised of a vast number of ultra-small autonomous computing, communication and sensing devices, with restricted energy and computing capabilities, ...
Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Elisavet Konstantinou, Va...