Slowdown, defined as the ratio of a request’s queueing delay to its service time, is accepted as an important quality of service metric of Internet servers. In this paper, we i...
Xiaobo Zhou, Yu Cai, C. Edward Chow, Marijke F. Au...
— The Assured Forwarding (AF) service of the IETF DiffServ architecture provides a qualitative service differentiation between classes of traffic, in the sense that a low-priori...
The deterministic network calculus offers an elegant framework for determining delays and backlog in a network with deterministic service guarantees to individual traffic flows. T...
The Differentiated Services (DiffServ) approach is intended to provide Quality of Service (QoS) in IP-based networks. This is a very important issue not only in wire-line fixed n...
: The sector of Knowledge-Intensive Business Services (KIBS) is characterised by high rates of firm fluctuation, rapid changes in technological progress (e.g., in the software indu...