Existing studies on IT outsourcing have mainly examined partnership factors that influence IT outsourcing effectiveness. This stream of IT outsourcing research has largely ignored...
— This paper addresses the problem of inter-domain QoS routing. We propose a solution based on virtual-trunk type aggregates corresponding to Service Level Agreements (SLA) for d...
Broadband satellite-based IP networks have been considered as the technology to enable a strong and promising next-generation market. In satellite communication systems, the channe...
Hongqing Zeng, Anand Srinivasan, Brian Cheng, Chan...
Managing usage service level agreements (USLAs) within environments that integrate participants and resources spanning multiple physical institutions is a challenging problem. Mai...
Distributed trust and reputation management mechanisms are often proposed as a means of providing assurance in dynamic and open environments by enabling principals to building up ...