IT service providers are increasingly required to orientate their service portfolio towards the IT support of their consumer’s business processes. This enables diversification a...
In this paper, we propose a novel MAC protocol, called Quality-ofservice Guarantee Multiple Access (QGMA), in wireless local area networks to support the quality of service requir...
Parameter-space studies involve running a single application several times with different parameter sets. Since the jobs are mutually independent, many computing resources can be r...
Anand Natrajan, Marty A. Humphrey, Andrew S. Grims...
With the offer from cloud computing providers, scientists have the opportunity to utilize pay-as-you-go resources together with their own and shared resources. However, scientist...
Single sign-on is critical for the usability of distributed systems. While there are several authentication mechanisms which support single sign-on (e.g. Kerberos and X.509), it m...