A Service-Level Agreement (SLA) provides surety for specific quality attributes to the consumers of services. However, current SLAs offered by cloud infrastructure providers do ...
Waheed Iqbal, Matthew N. Dailey, David Carrera, Pa...
In this paper, a communication system including n interfering additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) links is considered. Each transmitter uses a Gaussian codebook and each receiver...
Hajar Mahdavi-Doost, Masoud Ebrahimi, Amir K. Khan...
Distributed programming has become a topic of widespread interest, and many programmers now wrestle with tradeoffs between data consistency, availability and latency. Distributed...
Peter Alvaro, Neil Conway, Joe Hellerstein, Willia...
Abstract—Open Web-based and social platforms dramatically influence models of work. Today, there is an increasing interest in outsourcing tasks to crowdsourcing environments tha...
Harald Psaier, Florian Skopik, Daniel Schall, Scha...
—In mobile wireless systems, the quest to support delay-stringent multimedia applications challenges most existing solutions to the mobility support and traffic management proble...