The development of Web Services has transformed the World Wide Web into a more application-aware information portal. The various standards ensure that Web Services are interpretabl...
In this paper we present a scalable protocol for conducting periodic probes of network performance in a way that minimizes collisions between separate probes. The goal of the prot...
Richard Wolski, Benjamin Gaidioz, Bernard Touranch...
Virtual machine monitors (VMMs) have enjoyed a resurgence in popularity, since VMMs can help to solve difficult systems problems like migration, fault tolerance, code sandboxing, ...
Andrew Whitaker, Richard S. Cox, Marianne Shaw, St...
The backup of large data sets is preferably performed automatically outside of regular working hours. In highly structured computer networks, however, faults and exceptions may rel...
Service Level Agreements (SLAs) define the level of service that a service provider must deliver. An SLA is a contract between service provider and consumer, and includes appropri...
Tony Chau, Vinod Muthusamy, Hans-Arno Jacobsen, El...