Due to a lack of incentives, Internet peerings are a notorious bandwidth bottleneck. Through the use of direct interconnection and content delivery networks, content providers are...
We develop a framework to study differentiated services when there are competing network providers. We adopt a multi-class queueing model, where providers post prices for various s...
In the last few years there has been much interest in the delivery of software-as-a-service. The concept of the remote delivery of software by Application Service Providers (ASPs)...
— To ensure the operability and reliability of large scale Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP), a peak-load oriented hardware sizing is often used. Better utilization can ...
Martin Wimmer, Valentin Nicolescu, Daniel Gmach, M...
Utility services providers offer on-demand services for multiple users and applications from a shared resource pool. The utility computing environment provider manages resources th...