— In this paper we provide a survey of three classes of combinatorial optimization problems that arise in communication network analysis. These problems, referred to as QoS (Qual...
We propose a novel approach to Quality of Service, intended for IP over SONET (or IP over WDM) networks, that offers end-users the choice between two service classes defined acco...
Patrick Thiran, Nina Taft, Christophe Diot, Hui Za...
Generally, the real-time applications exchange information on dedicated network and the other traffic is supported by another communication system. The differentiation of these tw...
Jean-Philippe Georges, Eric Rondeau, Thierry Divou...
— Broadband access for all will be a key functionality in future mobile radio networks. Depending on the length and the characteristic of the radio wave propagation the performan...
In recent years, extensive research has been conducted in the area of Service Level Agreement (SLA) for utility computing systems. An SLA is a formal contract used to guarantee th...