In the next few years the landscape of the information and communications technology (ICT) industry will be subject to many changes. New and advanced ICT services will be brought ...
— In today’s service market the provisioning of high quality services has become a critical issue for providers as the business success of their customers is often based on the...
For applications relying on the transfer of multimedia, and in particular continuous media, it is essential that quality of service (QoS) is guaranteed system-wide, including end-s...
Andrew T. Campbell, Geoff Coulson, David Hutchison
While the backbone networks have experienced substantial changes in the last decade; the access networks have not changed much. Recently, passive optical networks (PONs) seem to be...
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...