Monitoring is an important concept in network management as it helps network operators to
determine the behavior of a network and the status of its components. Traffic engineering …

The Internet has become essential to all aspects of modern life, and thus the consequences
of network disruption have become increasingly severe. It is widely recognised that the …

Over the past several years there has been a considerable amount of research within the
field of quality of service (QoS) support for distributed multimedia systems. To date, most of …

The Internet is undergoing substantial changes from a communication and browsing
infrastructure to a medium for conducting business and marketing a myriad of services. The …

Over the past several years there has been a considerable amount of research within the
field of quality-of-service (QoS) support for distributed multimedia systems. To date, most of …

A proper understanding of the general nature, potential and obligations of electronic
services may be achieved by examining existing commercial services in detail. The …

5581703 A 12/1996 Baugher et al ries and resource monitors). The resources in any
particular 5,774,660 A 6f1998 Brendel et al-709/201 Server are classified or partitioned as …

Real-time middleware services must guarantee predictable performance under specified
load and failure conditions, and ensure graceful degradation when these conditions are …

With increasingly diverse QOS requirements, it is impractical to continue to rely on
conventional routing paradigms that emphasize the search for an optimal path based on a …

Traditional object-oriented design methods deal with the functional aspects of systems, but
they do not address quality-of-service (QoS) aspects, such as reliability, availability …