As most computer systems are expected to remain operational 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, they must complete maintenance work while in operation. This work is in addition to the ...
Qi Zhang, Ningfang Mi, Evgenia Smirni, Alma Riska,...
Abstract— This paper presents an analytical model for evaluating the capability of wireless LANs (WLANs) to provision quantitative quality of service (QoS) guarantees. We conside...
Yu Cheng, Lin Cai, Xinhua Ling, Wei Song, Weihua Z...
— Intermittently Connected Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (ICMANs) are mobile networks in which complete source-todestination paths do not exist most of the time because of their sparse ...
The Distributed Probabilistic Protocol (DPP) is a new, approximate algorithm for solving Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems (DCSPs) that exploits prior knowledge to impr...
— We target the problem of predicting resource usage in situations where the modeling data is scarce, non-stationary, or expensive to obtain. This scenario occurs frequently in c...