Abstract--Some recent publications have proposed methodologies to assess the performance of multimedia services in introducing subjective estimate of the end-to-end quality of vari...
— Internet traffic is bursty and network servers are often overloaded with surprising events or abnormal client request patterns. This paper studies scheduling algorithms for in...
The rapid growth of the Internet has made IP addresses a scarce resource. To get around this problem, today and in the foreseeable future, networks will be deployed with reusable-...
—Popular Internet services are hosted by multiple geographically distributed datacenters. The location of the datacenters has a direct impact on the services’ response times, c...
This paper reports our experience with representing and reasoning with context information within the CARE middleware. CARE was developed to support context-aware service adaptati...