1 -- Design of a Set-top Box (STB) is presented to provide virtual platforms such that it can support multiple service providers. Each service provider is able to manage its own mu...
Muhammad Shoaib Siddiqui, Choong Seon Hong, Young-...
The next generation of software systems will be highly distributed, component-based and service-oriented. They will need to operate in unattended mode and possibly in hostile envi...
This paper describes a hierarchical architecture of active policies that performs the management of a differentiated services (DiffServ) network. These policies monitor quality of ...
—Federated computing environments offer requestors the ability to dynamically invoke services offered by collaborating providers in the virtual service network. Without an effici...