Future integrated services networks will need to provide quality of service (QoS) guarantees to multimedia applications. To ensure that the contracted QoS is sustained, it is not ...
Abstract. We propose a prediction-based best-effort real-time service to support distributed, interactive applications in shared, unreserved computing environments. These applicati...
Peter A. Dinda, Loukas F. Kallivokas, Bruce Loweka...
—Popular web services and applications such as Google Apps, DropBox, and Go.Pc introduce a wasteful imbalance of processing resources. Each host operated by a provider serves hun...
– With software-as-a-service becoming mainstream, more and more applications are delivered to the client through the Web. Unlike a desktop application, a web application is split...
: Computing is being transformed to a model consisting of services that are commoditised and delivered in a manner similar to utilities such as water, electricity, gas, and telepho...