The successful deployment of next-generation distributed multimedia systems is signi cantly dependent on the e cient management support that improves the performance and the relia...
—In this paper we extend our previous work on soft probabilistic contracts for QoS management, from the particular case of “response time”, to general QoS parameters. Our stu...
Dynamic service-oriented architectures aim to provide more flexible and robust systems that are able to handle change over time. Their dynamic nature however, provides extra chall...
The Reliable Server Pooling (RSerPool) protocol suite currently under standardization by the IETF is designed to build systems providing highly available services by mechanisms an...
The Internet has grown dramatically and evolved significantly over the past 10 years. While this growth provides new opportunities and many value-added services for millions of I...