Resource management is a precondition to build reliable, extensible middleware and to host potentially untrusted user components. Resource accounting allows to charge users for the...
Monitoring and information services form a key component of a distributed system, or Grid. A quantitative study of such services can aid in understanding the performance limitatio...
Xuehai Zhang, Jeffrey L. Freschl, Jennifer M. Scho...
—This paper presents a model-based approach to service creation. We observe that the complexity of software services increases. To manage this complexity, and to quickly create s...
Controlling the quality of collaborative multimedia sessions, that deploy multiple media streams, is a challenging problem. In this paper, we present a framework for achieving qua...
The dependability of overlay services rely on the overlay network’s capabilities to effectively diagnose and recover faults (e.g., link failures, overlay node outages). However,...