Abstract. The use of Internet as an ubiquitous communication platform puts a strong demand on service providers regarding the assurance of multiple service levels consistently. Des...
The next generation Grid will demand the Grid middleware to provide flexibility, transparency, and reliability. This implies the appliance of service level agreements to guarantee...
In the past decade outsourcing a software system’s support and maintenance has become relatively common across most organizations. In this paper we consider a few issues governi...
In the field of real-time control applications, validation relies on a precise knowledge of the temporal characteristics of the used data such as delays and loss rates. These data...
Recently proposed scalable on-demand streaming protocols have previously been evaluated using a system cost measure termed the "required server bandwidth". For the scala...
Haonan Tan, Derek L. Eager, Mary K. Vernon, Hongfe...