— Efficient network provisioning mechanisms that support service differentiation and automatic capacity dimensioning are essential to the realization of the Differentiated Servi...
Virtual Private Networks provide secure and reliable communication between customer sites. With increase in number and size of VPNs, providers need efficient provisioning techniqu...
Satish Raghunath, K. K. Ramakrishnan, Shivkumar Ka...
This paper presents Contory, a middleware specifically deployed to support provisioning of context information on mobile devices such as smart phones. Contory integrates multiple...
Effective provisioning of next generation distributed applications hosted on diverse middleware platforms incurs significant challenges due to the applications’ growing complex...
Dimple Kaul, Arundhati Kogekar, Aniruddha S. Gokha...
— There is growing incentive to reduce the power consumed by large-scale data centers that host online services such as banking, retail commerce, and gaming. Virtualization is a ...
Dara Kusic, Jeffrey O. Kephart, James E. Hanson, N...
Role-based provisioning has been adopted as a standard component in leading Identity Management products due to its low administration cost. However, the cost of adjusting existin...
Qun Ni, Jorge Lobo, Seraphin B. Calo, Pankaj Rohat...
Dynamic resource provisioning aims at maintaining the endto-end response time of a web application within a predefined SLA. Although the topic has been well studied for monolithi...