— Today’s Internet carries an ever broadening range of application traffic with different requirements. This has stressed its original, one-class, best-effort model, and has b...
In many service industries, companies compete with each other on the basis of the waiting time their customers experience, along with the price they charge for their service. A fi...
Abstract Many security problems are caused by vulnerabilities hidden in enterprise computer networks. It is very important for system administrators to have knowledge about the sec...
Embedded real-time systems must satisfy not only logical functional requirements but also para-functional properties such as timeliness, Quality of Service (QoS) and reliability. W...
provides a powerful abstraction basically allowing to perceiving all compute resources as entities that can be dynamically discovered and composed. These entities are called servic...