Long-range dependence (LRD) is a widely verified property of Internet traffic, which severely affects network performance yielding longer queuing delays. Token-bucket policers ...
—Storage Area Networks (SANs) connect storage devices to servers over fast network interconnects. We consider the problem of optimal SAN configuration with the goal of meeting s...
Maximizing resource provider profit and satisfying user requirements at the same time is a challenging problem in utility computing environments. In this paper, we introduce adap...
Existing studies on IT outsourcing have mainly examined partnership factors that influence IT outsourcing effectiveness. This stream of IT outsourcing research has largely ignored...
— This paper addresses the problem of inter-domain QoS routing. We propose a solution based on virtual-trunk type aggregates corresponding to Service Level Agreements (SLA) for d...