We investigate the preservation of quality of service guarantees to a flow of packets in the presence of flow aggregation. For efficiency, multiple flows, known as the constituent...
Due to the increasing use of service level agreements for the provisioning of IT services, providers have to ensure that the guarantees for the quality of their offered services, ...
– In IEEE 802.16e networks, the mobility of mobile stations (MSs) induces that energy saving becomes an important issue for the battery-powered MSs to extend their operational li...
A computer network consists of a set of computing nodes interconnected via communication channels. It is commonly assumed that, for each pair of network nodes u and v, there is at...
The Internet is undergoing substantial changes from a communication and browsing infrastructure to a medium for conducting business and marketing a myriad of services. The World W...