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Advancements in the application service provisioning have created stringent scenarios in the world of cloud. The framework now needs to comply with specific requirements of consumers with specific demands. The diversified needs of storage and other related services in the dynamically changing needs of consumers. Such application requirements are becoming frequent as a consequence to high performance...
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have gained significant attention due to their wide range of applications. In these networks, the sensor nodes collect different types of data from the surrounding environment. There are many applications that require sensor node to transmit urgent data packets faster than normal data packets. In the literature, most of the available medium access control (MAC) protocols...
Optical Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) networks based on fixed grid technology have exposed some questions, including wasting of bandwidth resources in multi-domain heterogeneous networks. Flexible grid technologies can provide end-to-end optical path according to the client flexibly and effectively. However, it is unpractical to deploy a one-time green-field flexible grid technologies subjected...
Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communications encapsulate significant challenges as a result of the vast number of wireless technologies deployed, nodes mobility and large applications range. One of the greatest challenges is to provide adequate QoS guarantees even in this demanding environment. State-of-the-art solutions for QoS provisioning over wireless links are based on cross-layering packet schedulers...
In recent years, video streaming traffic has increased exponentially over the Internet. This can be observed through the emergence of various video on demand sites such as Netflix, Amazon movies and others. In parallel, IEEE 802.11 (WiFi) technology has been deployed extensively from home to public areas. Although significant research has been done to address issues on video streaming through WiFi...
Internet of Things (IoT) has become a favored wireless communication concept in many application domains recently. Most of the IoT networks must fulfill the strict quality of service (QoS) requirements such as low latency and high reliability. Besides, low power consumption is essential in those networks due to the use of battery operated devices. Time Slotted Channel Hopping (TSCH), an operating...
Reliable service provisioning is crucial to the public safety (PS) communications especially when network outage happens. Isolated E-UTRAN operation, introduced in LTE Release 13, is able to host separate core network functions at the base stations (BSs) to provide limited set of services to the users. However, a significant issue remains to be solved is to coordinate among BSs to create an autonomous...
Large scale observatories are shared-use resources that provide open access to data from geographically distributed sensors and instruments. This data has the potential to accelerate scientific discovery. However, seamlessly integrating the data into scientific workflows remains a challenge. In this paper, we summarize our ongoing work in supporting data-driven and data-intensive workflows and outline...
A key challenge in software systems that are exposed to runtime variabilities, such as workload fluctuations and service degradation, is to continuously meet performance requirements. In this paper we present an approach that allows performance self-adaptation using a system model based on queuing networks (QNs), a well-assessed formalism for software performance engineering. Software engineers can...
In Online-to-Offline (O2O) commerce, customer services may need to be composed from online and offline services. Such composition is challenging, as it requires effective selection of appropriate services that, in turn, support optimal combination of both online and offline services. In this paper, we address this challenge by proposing an approach to O2O service composition which combines offline...
Networked embedded software systems incorporate varying degrees of adaptation behavior to sustain their operations with acceptable quality of service (QoS), in the face of hostile external events — such as resource outages in a cloud service, road slipperiness in a car driving, etc. For instance, a highly agile cruise control system of a car may dynamically adjust its controller parameters...
Currently, 4G mobile communication systems are supported by the 3GPP standard. In view of the significant increase in mobile data traffic, it is necessary to characterize it to improve the performance of current wireless networks. Indeed, video transmission and video streaming are fundamental assets for the upcoming smart cities and urban environments. Due to the high costs of deploying a real LTE...
In distributed Smart Farming applications, a reliable communication is often crucial, in particular during collaborating operations. In rural areas, the network connectivity via Public Land Mobile Networks is, however, not always sufficient. Network disruptions may occur hindering reliable transmissions. For the delivery of periodic sensor data streams of agricultural machines, several modern communication...
The authors study the methodology of evaluation of service quality of a large system — the system of Volgograd public passenger transport. The offered decomposition and aggregate method of integral evaluation of quality is based on complex combination of quantitative (method of profiles) and qualitative (Analytical Hierarchy Process methods) approaches to measuring the hierarchically structure objects...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are used in many mission-critical applications, such as target tracking on a battlefield, emergency alarms, and disaster detection. In such applications, QoS provisioning in the timeliness domain is indispensable. Moreover, because of the diversity of sensory data, QoS provisioning should support not only one but multiple levels of end-to-end delay constraints. As a...
The service-oriented paradigm offers support for engineering service-based systems based on service composition. QoS (Quality of Service)-aware service composition chooses a set of services to collectively construct a service-based system, while satisfying global QoS constraints and budget restriction. The service providers naturally are self-interested and strive to maximize their own utilities....
Channel state information (CSI) is essential for efficient power and spectrum allocation policies. In cognitive radio (CR) channels, although perfect CSI of the direct link (between the secondary transmitter and the secondary receiver) is a reasonable assumption at the secondary transmitter (ST), however, perfect knowledge of its interfering links to the primary receivers (PRs) is not. Power allocation...
Internet of things, a trend of the following years, makes it possible to develop new applications and services as well as creates a huge amount of data to be processed. In order to support this new paradigm, an extension of cloud computing, named Fog Computing, has been developed. Fog computing improves the cloud security, availability and performance by providing a distributed and powerful communication...
Long Term Evolution (LTE) is a new bearer service for 4G that greatly improves and simplifies wireless access to packet data transfer. The purpose of the LTE is to efficiently accommodate data users which are busty in nature. A key challenge of incorporating voice traffic into networks with efficiency guarantees lies in the difficulty of releasing the available communication resource when the channels...
Recently, the development of wireless body area network (WBAN) is accelerated due to rapid development of wireless technology. In the WBAN environment, many WBANs coexist where communication ranges overlap with each other, resulting in the possibility of interference. Since many variety of applications exist in the WBAN environment, each prospective user may have different quality of service (QoS)...
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