Optical burst switching (OBS) has been proposed as the next generation optical network for grid computing. In this paper, we envision a heterogeneous Grid served by an Optical Burs...
Process control systems (PCSs) are instrumental to the safe, reliable and efficient operation of many critical infrastructure components. However, PCSs increasingly employ commodit...
Robert K. Cunningham, Steven Cheung, Martin W. Fon...
Outsourcing of work to support software development and services is seen primarily as a transfer of labor to another shore. But intellectual property, as software, is transferred a...
Gio Wiederhold, Amar Gupta, Rajat Mittal, Erich J....
An increasing number of enterprises outsource their IT services to third parties who can offer these services for a much lower cost due to economy of scale. Quality of service is ...
Abstract— Software routers are becoming an important alternative to proprietary and expensive network devices, because they exploit the economy of scale of the PC market and open...
Andrea Bianco, Jorge M. Finochietto, Giulio Galant...