In a competitive telecommunications marketplace, operators must provide customers with rapid access to both new and traditional service offerings. Market share is developed through...
Internet service utilities host multiple server applications on a shared server cluster. A key challenge for these systems is to provision shared resources on demand to meet servi...
Ronald P. Doyle, Jeffrey S. Chase, Omer M. Asad, W...
The new IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) provides an overlay architecture for IP based core networks and enables the efficient provision of an open set of potentially highly integrat...
We consider an SLA (Service Level Agreement) committed between two parties to use the guarantee of QoS provided by a QoS Enabled Network (QEN). QEN can provide guarantee of QoS bec...
In a history-based trust-management system, users and service providers use information about past transactions to make trust-based decisions concerning current transactions. One ...