— Multicast services can be provided either as a basic network service or as an application-layer service. Higher level multicast implementations often provide more sophisticated...
Many value-added and content delivery services are being offered via service level agreements (SLAs). These services can be interconnected to form a service overlay network (SON) ...
Xiaohui Gu, Klara Nahrstedt, Rong N. Chang, Christ...
In the current Internet, there is no clean way for affected parties to react to poor forwarding performance: to detect and assess Service Level Agreement (SLA) violations by a con...
Katerina J. Argyraki, Petros Maniatis, Ankit Singl...
Internet technology is promised to provide the broadband multi-service future. Today this technology can not provide basic quality guarantees for the services rendered. Generally ...
Paul Sijben, Willem van Willigenburg, Michel de Bo...
Delivering data to on-line game participants requires the game data to be "customized" in real-time to each participant's characteristics. Using multicast in such a...
Manuel M. Oliveira, Jon Crowcroft, Christophe Diot