—The availability of optical network infrastructure and appropriate user control software has recently made it possible for scientists to establish end-to-end circuits across mul...
Abstract. In this paper we present a policy-based architecture for aggregating (grooming) IP/MPLS flows (packet-based LSPs) within lightpaths taking into account the possibility o...
—Current data-centers employ admission control mechanism to maintain low response time and high throughput under overloaded scenarios. Existing mechanisms use internal (on the ov...
—Increasing demand to transmit real-time data over packet-switched networks calls for quality-of-service support from the underlying network. Deadline-based networks were develop...
A large-scale multimedia server, in practice, has to service a large number of clients simultaneously. Given the real-time requirements of each client and the fixed data transfer ...