A cluster of PCs can be seen as a collection of networked low cost disks; such a collection can be operated by proper so as to provide the abstraction of a single, larger block de...
Alessandro Di Marco, Giovanni Chiola, Giuseppe Cia...
Network calculus is a min-plus system theory which facilitates the efficient derivation of performance bounds for networks of queues. It has successfully been applied to provide e...
An important factor in the successful deployment of federated web-services-based business activities will be the ability to guarantee reliable distributed operation and execution....
The high bandwidth and low latency of the modern internet has made possible the deployment of distributed computing platforms. The XenoServer platform provides a distributed compu...
David Spence, Jon Crowcroft, Steven Hand, Timothy ...
We study jitter control in networks with guaranteed quality of service (QoS) from the competitive analysis point of view: we propose on-line algorithms that control jitter and comp...