In this paper we argue that the best approach to providing Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees to current Internet services is to use admission control and traffic shaping techni...
Josep M. Blanquer, Antoni Batchelli, Klaus E. Scha...
The IETF is currently focused on Differentiated Services (Diffserv) as the architecture to provide Quality of Service in IP networks (IP-QoS). The Diffserv architecture consists o...
Fulu Li, Nabil Seddigh, Biswajit Nandy, Diego Matu...
Performance critical services over Internet often rely on geographically distributed architectures of replicated servers. Content Delivery Networks (CDN) are a typical example whe...
— This work considers the problem of hosting multiple third-party Internet services in a cost-effective manner so as to maximize a provider’s business objective. For this purpo...
Bruno D. Abrahao, Virgilio Almeida, Jussara M. Alm...
Disasters can cause extraordinary service demand by the public, while concurrently causing outages that reduce network capacity to serve the surging demand. It is imperative that ...
David A. Garbin, Patrick V. McGregor, Denise M. Be...