Maximizing resource provider profit and satisfying user requirements at the same time is a challenging problem in utility computing environments. In this paper, we introduce adap...
Abstract— In wireless mesh networks, the end-to-end throughput of traffic flows depends on the path length, i.e. the higher the number of hops, the lower becomes the throughput...
Claudio Cicconetti, Ian F. Akyildiz, Luciano Lenzi...
The performance of contiguous allocation strategies can be significantly affected by the distribution of job execution times. In this paper, the performance of the existing contigu...
—The IEEE 802.15.3 has introduced a type of time division multiple access (TDMA) which allocates the variable length of timeslot within a constant time interval. However, it need...
As third party logistic services become popular, the role of software agents increases in importance in terms of the logistics scheduling of buyers and sellers. To support many mo...