This work investigates the benefits and drawbacks of using a lottery to schedule and drop packets within a router. We find that a lottery can provide many distinct levels of serv...
Service Level Agreements (SLA) include quality of service (QoS) constraints and bounds that have to be honoured by the service provider. To maximise the Service Provider revenue wh...
Mike J. Boniface, Stephen C. Phillips, Alfonso S&a...
—In the majority of today’s IT organizations, Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are an important means for underpinning IT service provisioning by clearly defined Quality of Ser...
Heterogeneous subscriber base with wide range of wireless services makes the wireless service market more challenging for a service provider (SP). This challenge is related to the ...
Client request rates for Internet services tend to be bursty and thus it is important to maintain efficient resource utilization under a wide range of load conditions. Network ser...