A key issue in utility computing environments, such as utility Grids, is the provisioning, orchestration and allocation of resources to services. In these environments, providers ...
Advances in the development of large scale distributed computing systems such as Grids and Computing Clouds have intensified the need for developing scheduling algorithms capable...
Claris Castillo, George N. Rouskas, Khaled Harfous...
Systems that use or serve multimedia data require timely access to data on hard drives. To ensure adequate performance users must either prevent overload of disk resources, or use...
This paper presents a novel approach that simplifies real-time multimedia communication applications development and service provision. Such applications are no longer required to...
— There is growing incentive to reduce the power consumed by large-scale data centers that host online services such as banking, retail commerce, and gaming. Virtualization is a ...
Dara Kusic, Jeffrey O. Kephart, James E. Hanson, N...