— The need to monitor real time network services has prompted service providers to use new measurement technologies, such as service-specific probes. Service-specific probes ar...
To create acceptable levels of Quality of Service (QoS), designers need to be able to predict users’ behaviour in response to different levels of QoS. However, predicting behavio...
Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) has been considered as a feasible solution for transparent LAN service. By virtually locating all of the service intelligence in the provider ed...
As current Voice-over-IP (VoIP) systems encourage a direct communication between the callees they are similar in design to peerto-peer (P2P) approaches. Therefore, we introduce a f...
1 Distributed and collaborative applications are rapidly converging towards the adoption of a computing paradigm based on service-oriented architectures, according to which an appl...