We study a queueing network where customers go through several stages of processing, with the class of a customer used to indicate the stage of processing. The customers are servic...
When users' tasks in a distributed heterogeneous computing environment (e.g., cluster of heterogeneous computers) are allocated resources, the total demand placed on some sys...
Jong-Kook Kim, Debra A. Hensgen, Taylor Kidd, Howa...
Applications require the composition of resources to execute in a grid computing environment. The Grid Service Providers (GSPs), the owners of the computational resources, must for...
Near-Video-On-Demand (NVOD) entails the provision of viewing flexibility that approaches that of VOD to an unlimited number of viewers of a "hot" movie at afixed cost to...
The grid is the next generation computing infrastructure able to handle the growing requirements for computing power. Portals are anticipated as the user’s access point to these...
Piotr Grzybowski, Michal Kosiedowski, Cezary Mazur...