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Article
A Report on CNSM 2010
The 6th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2010) was held on October 25–29, 2010 in Niagara Falls, Canada. CNSM is a premier annual conference, sponsored by IEEE Communications So...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Proxy-Based Mobile Grid
The increase in the popularity of small digital mobile devices also implies an increased demand in applications. The limited computing capabilities on the mobile devices and the unreliability of wireless links...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Achieving High-Level Directives Using Strategy-Trees
A strategy-tree provides a systematic approach to the evaluation of the effectiveness of deployed policy sets and a mechanism to dynamically alter policy sets (i.e., alter strategy) at run-time in response to ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Strategy-Trees: A Feedback Based Approach to Policy Management
A strategy-tree is an abstraction that encapsulates and relates multiple strategies for achieving a high level directive. Policies represent the expression of how a strategy is to be implemented (i.e., what to do...
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Article
Report on Policy 2006: Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks
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Article
Reducing Resource Usage Based on User Hints and Policies
Multimedia applications often have performance requirements that make these applications computing resource intense; e.g., the number of video frames displayed to the user must be about 25 frames per second. A...
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Article
Policy 2003: Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Administrative Policies to Regulate Quality of Service Management in Distributed Multimedia Applications
Properly capturing and handing administrative requirements for Quality of Service (QoS) management is a challenging, infrequently studied, problem. In this paper, we formalize administrative requirements as ad...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Predicting Violations of QoS Requirements in Distributed Systems
A Quality of Service (QoS) requirement refers to a non-functional requirement such as performance. A QoS management system allocates and schedules computing resources. A dynamic QoS management system is one th...
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Chapter
Policy Specification and Architecture for Quality of Service Management
An application’s Quality of Service (QoS) requirements refers to non-functional, run-time requirements. These requirements are usually soft in that the application is functionally correct even if the QoS requi...
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Article
Optimizing Management Functions in Distributed Systems
With the increased availability and complexity of distributed systems comes a greater need for solutions to assist in the management of distributed systems. Despite the significant contributions made towards t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Design and Implementation of an Application Layer Protocol for Reducing UDP Traffic Based on User Hints and Policies
This paper presents an application-layer protocol for UDP that makes use of user hints (e.g., a screen saver being invoked or covering a window with another) to reduce network traffic, which in turn may help r...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Methodology and Implementation for Analytic Modeling in Electronic Commerce Applications
Analytic queuing theory models are used to create accurate and informative models for phenomena that range from bank teller lines to complicated distributed systems. This paper defines a methodology for creati...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Introducing QoS to Electronic Commerce Applications
Business to consumer is expected to be one of the fastest growing segments of electronic commerce. One important and challenging problem in such context, is the satisfaction of user expectations about the Qual...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Issues in Managing Soft QoS Requirements in Distributed Systems Using a Policy-Based Framework
We address the problem of Quality of Service (QoS) requirements for multimedia applications (e.g., distance education, telemedicine, electronic commerce). These applications need to be able to co-exist with mo...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Distributed Resource Management to Support Distributed Application-Specific Quality of Service
This paper presents a policy-based software architecture and implementation for application Quality of Service (QoS) management. The approach is dynamic in that the application is started with an initial resou...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Delivering Adaptive Web Content Based on Client Computing Resources
This paper describes an approach to adapting Web content based on both static (e.g., connection speed) and dynamic information (e.g., CPU load) about a user’s computing resources. This information can be trans...
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Article
Applications Management — Current Practices, Research Results, and Future Directions
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Chapter
A Resource Management System Based on the ODP Trader Concepts and X.500
Distributed computing systems are composed of various types of hardware and software resources. Providing a reliable and efficient distributed computing environment largely depends on the effective management ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Formal derivation of an error-detecting distributed data scheduler using Changeling
This paper focuses on being able to detect component errors which can lead to system failures in the scheduling part of the lock manager portion of the distributed database system by using embedded executable ...
