— This work considers the problem of hosting multiple third-party Internet services in a cost-effective manner so as to maximize a provider’s business objective. For this purpo...
Bruno D. Abrahao, Virgilio Almeida, Jussara M. Alm...
In this note, we discuss issues pertaining to end-to-end qualityof-service management of commodity Internet applications and associated pricing incentive mechanisms. The issue of ...
Advances in server, network, and storage virtualization are enabling the creation of resource pools of servers that permit multiple application workloads to share each server in t...
Daniel Gmach, Jerry Rolia, Ludmila Cherkasova, Alf...
Disasters can cause extraordinary service demand by the public, while concurrently causing outages that reduce network capacity to serve the surging demand. It is imperative that ...
David A. Garbin, Patrick V. McGregor, Denise M. Be...
The existing telecommunications infrastructure in most of the world is adequate to deliver voice and text applications, but demand for broadband services such as streaming video an...
Yann d'Halluin, Peter A. Forsyth, Kenneth R. Vetza...