Towards the Technology Neutral Modeling of Management Components
This paper outlines an Architectural Model and accompanying modeling notation that addresses on the need to model management component interfaces and their business contexts in a technology neutral manner in order to promote convergence on stable, ...
The WSLA Framework: Specifying and Monitoring Service Level Agreements for Web Services
We describe a novel framework for specifying and monitoring Service Level Agreements (SLA) for Web Services. SLA monitoring and enforcement become increasingly important in a Web Service environment where enterprise applications and services rely on ...
A Multi-Agent Architecture for QoS Management in Multimedia Networks
Increasing interest in the transmission of audiovisual applications over best-effort networks (i.e., IP and ATM ABR, and UBR services) and efficient video-aware congestion control techniques have to be designed in order to improve the video quality in ...