Unwanted traffic injection which amplifies the traffic loading and exhausts network resources is counted as network security threat. Despite of the numerous protection systems, th...
Abstract. Moving towards a global market of services requires flexible infrastructures that will deal with the inevitable semantic heterogeneity that occurs during the negotiation ...
— Two rate SLAs become increasingly popular in today’s Internet, allowing a customer to save money by paying one price for committed traffic and a much lower price for additio...
This paper focuses on two main areas. We first investigate various aspects of subscription and session Service Level Agreement (SLA) issues such as negotiating and setting up netwo...
Allocating resources in networks to QoS flows may require undesirable delays or costs. We consider a dynamic Service Level Agreement (SLA) negotiation scheme between peer autonomo...
Due to the autonomous nature of ISPs, the service level agreement (SLA) offering is currently confined to within a single provider network. In this work, we examine some methods o...
With the number of e-Business applications dramatically increasing, a service level agreement (SLA) will play an important part in Web services. The SLA is a combination of severa...
When having repeated interactions with a service provider, a service consumer might desire guarantees on the delivery of the service. These guarantees involve both functional and n...
Web and grid services are quickly maturing as a technology that allows for the integration of applications belonging to different administrative domains, enabling much faster and ...
Ana Carolina Barbosa, Jacques Philippe Sauvé...
In the current Internet, there is no clean way for affected parties to react to poor forwarding performance: to detect and assess Service Level Agreement (SLA) violations by a con...
Katerina J. Argyraki, Petros Maniatis, Ankit Singl...