The concept of microgrid has emerged as a feasible answer to cope with the increasing
number of distributed renewable energy sources which are being introduced into the …

Traffic engineering is an important mechanism for Internet network providers seeking to
optimize network performance and traffic delivery. Routing optimization plays a key role in …

Background subtraction is a crucial step in many automatic video content analysis
applications. While numerous acceptable techniques have been proposed so far for …

The aim of the paper is to introduce and present the main drivers and basic concepts for SLA
management. We discuss the business requirements according to two viewpoints: the …

Admission control is a key component for QoS delivery in IP networks because it determines
the extent to which network resources are utilized and whether the contracted QoS …

We present a stochastic traffic engineering framework for optimizing bandwidth provisioning
and route selection in networks. The objective is to maximize revenue from serving …

Policy-based management can guide the behavior of a network or distributed system
through high-level declarative directives that are dynamically introduced, checked for …

This article presents an architecture for supporting interdomain QoS across the multi-
provider global Internet. While most research to date has focused on supporting QoS within …

В современной теории военного противоборства все большее значение придается
внедрению новых систем управления, основанных на сетецентрических принципах …

Policy refinement is meant to derive lower-level policies from higher-level ones so that these
more specific policies are better suited for use in different execution environments. Although …