The underlying structure of why and how consumers value reliability of electric service is explored, together with the technological options and cost characteristics for the provi...
Timothy Mount, William Schulze, Richard E. Schuler
Networking hardware manufacturers face the dual demands of supporting ever increasing bandwidth requirements, while also delivering new features, such as the ability to implement ...
Utility computing delivers compute and storage resources to applications as an `on-demand utility', much like electricity, from a distributed collection of computing resource...
Abstract. Web portals hosting large-scale internet applications have become popular due to the variety of services they provide to their users. These portals are developed using co...
Nilabja Roy, Yuan Xue, Aniruddha S. Gokhale, Larry...
Abstract— Service level agreements (SLAs) specify performance guarantees made by service providers, typically in terms of packet loss, delay, delay variation, and network availab...
Joel Sommers, Paul Barford, Nick G. Duffield, Amos...