Quality of service (QoS) is one of the key features for new Internet-based multimedia and other applications. Meanwhile, energy remains as a big concern for systems that perform s...
—Popular Internet services are hosted by multiple geographically distributed datacenters. The location of the datacenters has a direct impact on the services’ response times, c...
This paper describes an approach to real-time decisionmaking for quality of service based scheduling of distributed asynchronous data replication. The proposed approach addresses ...
Significant research has been devoted to aggregation in sensor networks with a view to optimize its performance. Existing research has mostly concentrated on maximizing network li...
The integration of the telephone network and the internet enables convergence of voice and data services. The explosion of information appliances also provides new service opportun...