A problem with many distributed applications is their behavior in lieu of unpredictable variations in user request volumes or in available resources. This paper explores a performa...
Abstract. The Web of today can be seen as an active and heterogeneous infrastructure of autonomous systems, where reactivity, evolution and propagation of information and changes p...
Abstract. While the Internet offers a single best-effort service, we remark that (i) core backbones are in general over provisioned, (ii) end users have increasingly faster acces...
Grid and service computing technologies have been explored by enterprises to promote integration, sharing, and collaboration. However, quick response to business environment chang...
Abstract. The topological design of distributed packet switched networks consists of finding a topology that minimizes the communication costs by taking into account a certain num...