Grid computing is a new paradigm that enables the distributed coordination of resources and services which are geographically dispersed, span multiple trust domains and are hetero...
Sergio Andreozzi, Augusto Ciuffoletti, Antonia Ghi...
Outsourcing of complex IT infrastructure to IT service providers has increased substantially during the past years. IT service providers must be able to fulfil their service-qualit...
Abstract--As society's dependence on network technology increases, the need for resilience and survivability in these services becomes increasingly apparent. Since the user ex...
Justin P. Rohrer, Ramya Naidu, James P. G. Sterben...
— This paper provides an initial look at how support for advance reservations affects the complexity of the path selection process in networks. Advance reservations are likely to...
In distributed systems, transcoding techniques have been used to customize multimedia objects, utilizing trade-offs between the quality and sizes of these objects to provide diffe...