A major class of network emulation testbeds is based on the Utah Emulab design: a local cluster of experimental nodes interconnected through Ethernet switches using VLANs. The VLA...
Resource location (or discovery) is a fundamental service for resource-sharing environments: given desired resource attributes, the service returns locations of matching resources....
Design by Contract is a design methodology that promotes software reliability and reusability by requiring each component module to have a well-specified interface and leaves a mo...
Phillip L. Nico, Clark Savage Turner, Kimberly Kno...
— Embedded processors are required to achieve high performance while running on batteries. Thus, they must exploit all the possible means available to reduce energy consumption w...
Resource brokering in Grids is nowadays handled by resource brokers that require detailed knowledge of the state of the resources that they broker. In business settings, surrender...