Abstract-A mechanism for the estimation of the available bandwidth between two end-points of a best-effort network is presented. The estimation is obtained by a simple statistical ...
: As service management systems are deployed in an open service market environment, the pressures on their developers to shorten development times and improve the flexibility of sy...
In this paper, we consider wide-area backbone networks where multiple connection-oriented guaranteed services with differing bandwidth/flow requirements are offered. Specifically,...
The application of software agent technology to the management of communications' infrastructures is a challenging domain as it requires management on different time scales a...
Alex L. Hayzelden, John Bigham, Stefan Poslad, Phi...
The increasing complexities of modern networks coupled with the popularity of multimedia applications have placed higher demands on network managers. This paper reviews the main r...
The successful deployment of next-generation distributed multimedia systems is signi cantly dependent on the e cient management support that improves the performance and the relia...