We consider the problem of scheduling tasks with unpredictable service times on distinct processing nodes so as to meet a real-time deadline, given that all communication among no...
Abstract. In this paper, we present a separable, reusable middleware solution that provides coordinated, end-to-end QoS management over any type of service component, and can use e...
Denise J. Ecklund, Vera Goebel, Thomas Plagemann, ...
In this paper we propose a new resource discovery protocol, REALTOR, which is based on a combination of pullbased and push-based resource information dissemination. REALTOR has be...
Through the recent emergence of joint resource and network virtualization, dynamic composition and provisioning of time-limited and isolated virtual infrastructures is now possible...
Wide-area distributed systems like computational grids are emergent infrastructures for high-performance parallel applications. On these systems, communication mechanisms have to ...