A service provisioning system is examined, where a number of servers are used to offer different types of services to paying customers. A customer is charged for the execution of ...
Michele Mazzucco, Isi Mitrani, Mike Fisher, Paul M...
In order to be economically feasible and to offer high levels of availability and performance, large scale distributed systems depend on the automation of repair services. While t...
— We consider a queueing system with controllable service rate; for example, a transmitter whose rate can be controlled by varying the transmission power. For such a system we ob...
The primary original design goal for email was to provide best-effort message delivery. Unfortunately, as the ever increasing uproar over SPAM demonstrates, the existing email inf...
Saket Kaushik, Paul Ammann, Duminda Wijesekera, Wi...
Business and economic considerations are driving the extensive use of service differentiation in Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) operated for business enterprises today. The resul...
Yu-Wei Eric Sung, Carsten Lund, Mark Lyn, Sanjay G...