Abstract— Service level agreements (SLAs) specify performance guarantees made by service providers, typically in terms of packet loss, delay, delay variation, and network availab...
Joel Sommers, Paul Barford, Nick G. Duffield, Amos...
Efficiently executing large-scale, data-intensive workflows such as Montage must take into account the volume and pattern of communication. When orchestrating data-centric workflo...
This paper proposes a novel approach for managing IP-based services and applications, reflecting the authors’ experience with the IBM Global Network. It describes how one can e...
Wide area ocean networks for monitoring and scientific exploratory purposes are in various stages of design; smallscale networks are already in various stages of deployment and te...
Sumit Roy, Payman Arabshahi, Dan Rouseff, Warren L...
Wireless sensor networks promise fine-grain monitoring in a wide variety of environments. Many of these environments (e.g., indoor environments or habitats) can be harsh for wire...