After more than a decade of active research on Quality of Service in IP networks and the
Internet, the majority of IP traffic relies on the conventional best-effort IP service model …

This article provides an in-depth review of the state-of-the-art and describes methodological
advances in the design and evaluation of road network pricing schemes. A number of …

Pricing is one of the biggest challenges of the next generation of the Internet. Even if flat rate
pricing is probably one of the main reasons of the Internet success, the only way to prevent …

Adoption of cloud infrastructure promises enterprises numerous benefits, such as faster time-
to-market and improved scalability enabled by on-demand provisioning of pooled and …

Ubiquitous environments facilitate the collection of information pieces from sensors,
databases, or mobile devices in order to compose the context of entities like users, places …

Pricing has become one of the main challenges of the networking community and is
receiving a great deal of interest in the literature. In this paper, we analyze the so-called …

Das Internet-Ökosystem ist gekennzeichnet durch eine starke Dynamik und ausgeprägte
Evolutorik. Während sich das Spektrum an Inhalten und Anwendungsdiensten, welche …

The volume of worldwide digital content has increased nine-fold within the last five years,
and this immense growth is predicted to continue in foreseeable future reaching 8ZB already …

This paper describes an architecture that provides support for quality of service (QoS)
specification and enforcement in heterogeneous distributed computing systems. The Quartz …

The volume of worldwide digital content has increased nine-fold within the last five years,
and this immense growth is predicted to continue in the foreseeable future to reach 8 ZB by …