In this paper the Northrhine-Westphalian metacomputing initiative is described. We start by discussing various general aspects of metacomputing and explain the reasons for founding...
—Epidemic protocols assume that information of a random set of nodes is provided at each protocol round. By definition, the random set needs to be chosen uniformly and randomly ...
Jin Sun, Paul J. Weber, Byung Kyu Choi, Roger M. K...
This paper develops and evaluates new share-based scheduling algorithms for differentiated service quality in network services, such as network storage servers. This form of resou...
In this paper, we address the server selection problem for streaming applications on the Internet. The architecture we consider is similar to the content distribution networks con...
The enlarging market of portable devices and wireless networks stimulates the provisioning of mobilityenabled Internet services with differentiated levels of Quality of Service (Q...