In networks that support quality of service, an admission control algorithm determines
whether or not a new traffic flow can be admitted to the network such that all users will …

Due to the dramatic increase in competition over the last few years, it has become more and
more important for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to run an efficient business and offer an …

Datacenter operators are increasingly deploying virtualization platforms to improve resource
usage efficiency and to simplify the management of tenant applications. Although there are …

We study usage-sensitive charging schemes for broadband communications networks. We
argue that a connection's “effective bandwidth” is a good proxy for the quantity of network …

Operators of multi‐service networks require simple charging schemes with which they can
fairly recover costs from their users and effectively allocate network resources. This paper …

We present an approach to managing and pricing service level agreements (SLA) for
differentiated services that uses a simple upper bound for the effective bandwidth of the …

Network function virtualization and 5G network slicing technology can provide a more
resilient and manageable Internet by deploying various requests on different slices. In this …

Datacenter networks are commonly structured with hierarchical topologies in which
multipaths are provided to create redundant paths between end-to-end servers. Without a …

Modern datacenters rely heavily on virtualization technologies to offer customized
computing and network resources on demand to a large number of tenant applications …

While there is a rapidly increasing demand for flexible, ubiquitous access to ever-growing
archives of raster images and maps of various types, data management technology lags …