A grid virtual enterprise is a community of independent enterprises concerned with a particular sector of the economy. Its members (nodes) are small or medium size enterprises (SME...
Alfredo Cuzzocrea, Alessandro D'Atri, Andrea Gualt...
How fast is the network? The speed at which real users can download content at different locations and at different times is an important metric for service providers. Knowledge o...
Alexandre Gerber, Jeffrey Pang, Oliver Spatscheck,...
A pervasive requirement of distributed systems is to deal with churn — change in the set of participating nodes due to joins, graceful leaves, and failures. A high churn rate ca...
—This paper considers the design of opportunistic packet schedulers for users sharing a time-varying wireless channel from the performance and the robustness points of view. Firs...
— We study problems related to supporting multicast connections with Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. We investigate the problem of optimal resource allocation in the conte...