Three service providers in competition, try to optimize their quality of service / content level and their service access price. But, they have to deal with uncertainty on the cons...
Abstract. Trust is hard to establish in a service-oriented grid architecture because of the need to support end user single sign-on and dynamic transient service. In order to enhan...
Abstract--This paper presents a Cross-layer Network Management System (NMS) that allows Service Providers (SPs) to perform cost-effective network resource reservations with their N...
Resource brokering in Grids is nowadays handled by resource brokers that require detailed knowledge of the state of the resources that they broker. In business settings, surrender...
We consider an SLA (Service Level Agreement) committed between two parties to use the guarantee of QoS provided by a QoS Enabled Network (QEN). QEN can provide guarantee of QoS bec...