We examine a policy for managing modem pools that disconnects users only if not enough modems are available for other users to connect. Managing the modem pool then becomes a repl...
level is a grid abstract machine, which consists of a collection of typed nodes -- data nodes (purple), director nodes (red), management nodes (orange), and various processing node...
Reducing power consumption has become a major challenge in the design and operation of today's computer systems. This chapter describes different techniques addressing this c...
Abstract. With the emergence of Cloud Computing resources of physical machines have to be allocated to virtual machines (VMs) in an ondemand way. However, the efficient allocation ...
—Quality-of-service (QoS) management often requires a continuous monitoring service to provide updated information about different hosts and network links in the managed system. ...