Utility functions can be used to represent the value users attach to job completion as a function of turnaround time. Most previous scheduling research used simple synthetic repre...
– Optical burst switching (OBS) is a promising technique for next-generation optical switching networks. In traditional OBS, an entire burst is discarded when all output waveleng...
The increasing levels of system integration in Multi-Processor System-on-Chips (MPSoCs) emphasize the need for new design flows for efficient mapping of multi-task applications o...
Advance Reservations(AR) make it possible to guarantee the QoS of Grid applications by reserving a particular resource capability over a defined time interval on local resources. H...
—The Internet has witnessed a rapid growth in deployment of data-driven overlay network (DON) based streaming applications during recent years. In these applications, each nodes ...