We present the Dynamic Priority (DP) parallel task scheduler for Hadoop. It allows users to control their allocated capacity by adjusting their spending over time. This simple mech...
This paper presents a study on the Grade-of-Service (GoS) differentiation of static resource allocation in lightpath routed WDM networks, where lightpath requests between node pai...
James Yiming Zhang, Jing Wu, Gregor von Bochmann, ...
QoS (Quality of Service) support in Web services is an important issue since it ensures service usability and utility for each client and, in addition, improves server utilization...
In the current Internet, business relationships and agreements between peered ISPs do not usually make specific guarantees on reachability, availability or network performance. How...
Panos Georgatsos, Jason Spencer, David Griffin, Ta...
In the next few years the landscape of the information and communications technology (ICT) industry will be subject to many changes. New and advanced ICT services will be brought ...
— Many network operators offer some type of tiered service, in which users may select only from a small set of service levels (tiers). Such a service has the potential to simplif...