The management of the underlying network infrastructure, which supports the grid communications, is not proceeded through the same management systems used for the grid management....
Ricardo Neisse, Evandro Della Vecchia Pereira, Lis...
Grids are distributed infrastructures that have been used as an important and powerful resource for distributed computing. Since the nodes of a grid can potentially be located in ...
Challenging usage policy issues can arise within virtual organizations (VOs) that integrate participants and resources spanning multiple physical institutions. Participants may wi...
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...
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...