With the growing number of service advertisements in service marketplaces, there is a need for matchmakers which select and rank functionally similar services based on nonfunction...
This paper studies the optimal placement of web files for en-route web caching. It is shown that existing placement policies are all solving restricted partial problems of the ...
Context-aware pervasive-computing applications require continuous monitoring of their physical and computational environment to make appropriate adaptation decisions in time. The ...
The need for service providers to offer SLAs to gain consumers confidence has become increasingly apparent. Our work focuses on providers who manage the execution of long-running d...
Daniel Spaven, Madhavi Rani, Sumit Kumar Bose, Mik...
—This paper analyzes the quality of service (QoS) of scheduling algorithms for heterogeneous users in multiuser (MU) wireless systems that take advantage from a crosslayer design...