This paper first studied the timeslot assignment problem in time division multiple access/code division multiple access (TDMA/CDMA) wireless ad hoc networks. Given a path P, we pr...
Slowdown, defined as the ratio of a request’s queueing delay to its service time, is accepted as an important quality of service metric of Internet servers. In this paper, we i...
Xiaobo Zhou, Yu Cai, C. Edward Chow, Marijke F. Au...
Most research on QoS-aware computing considers systems where code is generally partitioned into separately schedulable tasks with associated timing constraints. In sharp contrast ...
Ronghua Zhang, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, John A. Stanko...
We describe a new network service, the “ticket server”. This service provides “tickets” that a client can attach to a request for a network service (such as sending email o...
The intricacy of real-time data service management increases mainly due to the emergence of applications operating in open and unpredictable environments, increases in software co...