Cluster computing environments built from commodity hardware have provided a cost-effective solution for many scientific and high-performance applications. Likewise, middleware te...
RSVP is a bandwidth reservation protocol that allows distributed real-time applications such as video-conferencing software to make bandwidth reservations over packetswitched netw...
We consider a system with two service classes with heterogeneous traffic characteristics and Quality-of-Service requirements. The available bandwidth is shared between the two tra...
Current ubiquitous computing environments provide many kinds of information. This information may be accessed by different users under varying conditions depending on various conte...
—Emerging Web2.0 applications such as virtual worlds or social networking websites strongly differ from usual OLTP applications. First, the transactions are encapsulated in an AP...