ICAS
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2009
IEEE
— This paper evaluates the performance of VoIP services over mobile accesses, with special focus on currently deployed Best Effort UMTS networks. There are different configuratio...
ICAS
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2009
IEEE
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) IPTV applications have increasingly been considered as a potential approach to online broadcasting. These overcome fundamental client-server issues and introduc...
ICAS
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2009
IEEE
Existing middleware platforms for multi-agent systems (MAS) do not provide general support for observation. On the other hand, observation is considered to be an important mechani...
ICAS
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2009
IEEE
Dynamic adaptive systems are becoming increasingly popular due to their ability to adapt to heterogeneous and changing environments. Such systems must avert adverse feature intera...
ICAS
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2009
IEEE
IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) entails novel business opportunities for pioneering and emerging multimedia services, such as IPTV and VoIP video call applications. However, this st...
ICAS
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2009
IEEE
Modern distributed systems that have to avoid performance degradation and system overload require several runtime management decisions for load balancing and load sharing, overloa...
ICAS
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2009
IEEE
Abstract—Traditionally, performance has been the most important metrics when evaluating a system. However, in the last decades industry and academia have been paying increasing a...
ICAS
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2009
IEEE
Recent years have seen a growing interest in autonomic computing, an approach to providing systems with self managing properties [1]. Autonomic computing aims to address the incre...
ICAS
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2009
IEEE
In open systems where the components, i.e. the agents and the resources, may be unknown at design time, or in dynamic and self-organizing systems evolving with time, there is a ne...
ICAS
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2009
IEEE
Policies form an important part of management and can be an effective means of implementing self-adaptation in pervasive systems. Most policy-based systems focus on large-scale ne...