Abstract— Service placement is a key problem in communication networks as it determines how efficiently the user service demands are supported. This problem has been traditional...
Abstract: Nowadays, in the markets of broadband access services, traditional contracts are of "static" type. Customers buy the right to use a specific amount of resources...
Sergios Soursos, Costas Courcoubetis, Richard R. W...
Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) conveniently complement infrastructure-based networks, allowing mobile nodes to spontaneously form a network and share their services, including br...
Context-aware pervasive-computing applications require continuous monitoring of their physical and computational environment to make appropriate adaptation decisions in time. The ...
An important concept in the available bit rate (ABR) service model as defined by the ATM Forum is the minimum cell rate (MCR) guarantee as well as the peak cell rate (PCR) constra...
Yiwei Thomas Hou, Henry H.-Y. Tzeng, Shivendra S. ...