— Service creation by composing existing services and/or network resources is considered by Telecom and Internet industries as the trend for service provisioning in Next Generati...
: With Bandwidth Broker (BB) support in each domain, Differentiated Services (Diffserv) is seen as a key technology for achieving QoS guarantees in a scalable, efficient, and deplo...
Haci A. Mantar, Junseok Hwang, Steve J. Chapin, Ib...
The standardization of the IMS as a multi-access network implies that it can be accessed by different classes of terminals. Even at the heart of the same class of terminals (mobile...
Instant messaging (IM) has become increasingly popular due to its quick response time, its ease of use, and possibility of multitasking. It is estimated that there are several mil...
— Accurately estimating end-to-end performance in distributed systems is essential both for monitoring compliance with service-level agreements (SLAs) and for performance optimiz...