While the backbone networks have experienced substantial changes in the last decade; the access networks have not changed much. Recently, passive optical networks (PONs) seem to be...
Resource brokering in Grids is nowadays handled by resource brokers that require detailed knowledge of the state of the resources that they broker. In business settings, surrender...
We consider an SLA (Service Level Agreement) committed between two parties to use the guarantee of QoS provided by a QoS Enabled Network (QEN). QEN can provide guarantee of QoS bec...
Telco services are evolving under several aspects: for instance, services may combine different telecommunication features (messaging, multi-media, etc.) and may be activated and...
Maria Grazia Buscemi, Laura Ferrari, Corrado Moiso...
— We consider a set of computer resources used by a service provider to host enterprise applications subject to service level agreements. We present an approach for resource opti...