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- A New Approach to Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation in Quality of Service Networks: Performance and Bounds
- Efficient dynamic resource provisioning algorithms are necessary to the development and automation of Quality of Service QoS networks. The main goal of these algorithms is to offer services that satisfy the QoS requirements of individual users while guaranteeing at the same time an efficient utilization of network resources. This paper...
- Tags: Bandwidth, QoS, Performance, Network, Provisioning, Allocation, Resource Provisioning Algorithm
- White papers 2006-12-06
- Distributed Algorithms for Dynamic Bandwidth Provisioning in Communication Networks
- Efficient dynamic resource provisioning algorithms are necessary to the development and automation of Quality of Service QoS networks. The main goal of these algorithms is to offer services that satisfy the QoS requirements of individual users while guaranteeing at the same time an efficient utilization of network resources. This paper...
- Tags: Bandwidth, QoS, Network, Provisioning, Academy Publisher, Resource Provisioning Algorithm
- White papers 2006-11-01
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- Hierarchical Provisioning Algorithm for Virtual Private Networks Using the Hose Model
- Virtual Private Networks VPN provides a secure and reliable communication between customer sites over a shared network. Two models were proposed for the service provisioning in VPNs. The "Hose model" for VPNs alleviates the scalability problem of the "Pipe model" by reserving bandwidths for aggregate ingress and egress requirements instead...
- Tags: Algorithm, Provisioning, University Of Victoria, VPNs, Network Security, Telecommunications, Networking, Security
- White papers 2007-08-07
- Provisioning Technology for Automation
- Vendors have recently been offering more products and solutions for IT system "Automation" management. Fujitsu's "Systemwalker Resource Coordinator" is a product that provides an infrastructure for automation to reduce the administrative costs of a complex, large-scale IT system. Although the term "Automation" is often used to discuss system management, how...
- Tags: Provisioning, Fujitsu Ltd., Automation
- White papers 2007-07-01
- Adaptive Call Admission Control for Prioritized Adaptive Services in Wireless/Mobile Multimedia Cellular Networks
- New generation cellular wireless networks are designed to support adaptive multimedia services by controlling individual ongoing flows to increase or decrease their bandwidth in response to changes in traffic load. There is growing interest in Quality of Service QoS provisioning under this adaptive multimedia framework, in which a bandwidth adaptation...
- Tags: Algorithm, Multimedia, Mobile, Wireless, Engineering
- White papers 2006-03-01
- ESG Report: Thin Provisioning
- ESG believes that Thin Provisioning is one of the most important yet misunderstood advancements within data storage. This report defines and discusses Thin Provisioning, its economic impact and how it works. Thin Provisioning minimizes the cumbersome task of storage provisioning while improving capacity utilization. The economic impact...
- Tags: Provisioning, Storage System, 3PARData Inc., ESG, Thin Provisioning, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware
- White papers 2006-04-01
- An Introduction to Storage Provisioning With Tivoli Provisioning Manager and TotalStorage Productivity Center
- This paper is intended as an introduction to the subject of storage provisioning and is written for anyone who needs to understand IBM's automated storage provisioning tools. IBM storage provisioning solutions are based on Tivoli Provisioning Manager TPM and IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center TPC. This paper examines TPM's support for...
- Tags: IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center, Storage Provisioning, Storage, Provisioning, IBM Corp.
- White papers 2005-07-01
- Performance Enhancements of UMTS Networks Using End-to-End QoS Provisioning
- This paper investigates end-to-end Quality of Service QoS provisioning approaches for UMTS networks in a DiffServ IP network environment. The effort was put on QoS class mapping from DiffServ to UMTS, Access Control, buffering and scheduling optimization. The DiffServ Code Point was utilized in the E2E UMTS QoS provisioning to...
- Tags: UMTS, QoS, Performance, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- White papers 2005-09-22
- Template-Based Automated Service Provisioning - Supporting the Agreement-Driven Service Life-Cycle
- Service Level Agreements SLAs are a vital instrument in service-oriented architectures to reserve service capacity at a defined service quality level. Provisioning systems enable service managers to automatically configure resources such as servers, storage, and routers based on a configuration specification. Hence, agreement provisioning is a vital step in managing...
- Tags: SLA, Provisioning, Specification, Service Provisioning, Service Level Management, Data Centers, It Operations, It service Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2005-11-28
- Worldwide Server Provisioning Software 2004 Vendor Shares
- The server provisioning market continues to grow as IT organizations drive down costs associated with server consolidation and standardize on processes for server management. This paper identifies the server provisioning market leaders and is a follow-on study to the previously published Worldwide Server Provisioning Software 2005-2009 Forecast. IBM is the...
- Tags: Server Provisioning, IBM Corp., International Data Group, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2005-06-01
- Levanta Marries Provisioning with Data Virtualization
- So many vendors provide console-based systems provisioning these days that it's hard to keep track of the differences—both claimed and real—between them. If that weren't enough, there's another smaller set of products that do data virtualization of one sort or another. Find out how the marriage of these two approaches--provisioning...
- Tags: Virtualization, Provisioning, Levanta Corp.
- White papers 2005-07-08
- S3: A Scalable Sensing Service for Monitoring Large Networked Systems
- Efficiently operating and managing large scale distributed and federated systems is an extremely challenging problem. Current solutions are a combination of centralized management and significant over-provisioning of the infrastructure. With the explosion of new resource-intensive media applications and services, over provisioning of the infrastructure is no longer a viable option....
- Tags: S3 Inc., Network, Network Service, Provisioning, Monitoring, Association For Computing Machinery, Networking
- White papers 2006-09-15
- Energy-Efficient MAC-PHY Resource Management With Guaranteed QoS in Wireless OFDM Networks
- Most of the current resource management algorithms are confined to a single layer of the network protocol stack, which leads to an inferior system performance. This paper proposes a joint MAC-PHY layer resource allocation algorithm. The proposed algorithm jointly optimizes the bandwidth and power allocation through an integrated design of...
- Tags: Algorithm, QoS, System Performance, Resource Management, Wireless, Engineering
- White papers 2005-08-09
- A Genetic-Algorithm Based Mobile Sensor Network Deployment Algorithm
- This paper describes a Genetic-Algorithm GA based deployment algorithm of mobile sensor network. The algorithm is designed for real-time online deployment for maximum coverage of the environment. The paper presents the details on the algorithm and the implementation, including the major components in the design: recombination, mutation, and the fitness...
- Tags: Algorithm, Mobile, Network, Sensor, Engineering
- White papers
- A Regression-Based Analytic Model for Dynamic Resource Provisioning of Multi-Tier Applications
- The multi-tier implementation has become the industry standard for developing scalable client-server enterprise applications. Since these applications are performance sensitive, effective models for dynamic resource provisioning and for delivering quality of service to these applications become critical. Workloads in such environments are characterized by client sessions of interdependent requests with...
- Tags: Client-server, Implementation, Regression, Provisioning, IEEE, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2007-06-16
- Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager 1.1 Deployment Best Practices
- Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager, a Web-based GUI product used to simplify IP telephony management with respect to activation services and call processing provisioning, is a product from the Cisco Unified Communications Management Suite. Provisioning Manager provides provisioning for Cisco Unified Communications initial deployments and implementations and then remains employed to...
- Tags: Provisioning, Cisco Unified Communications System, Cisco Systems Inc., Best Practice, Provisioning Manager
- White papers 2007-12-01
- The Business Value of Dual-Use DR: An Executive Overview of the Disaster Recovery Capability of Veritas Provisioning Manager
- Veritas Provisioning Manager is a leading automated server provisioning solution that has had great success when deployed and used to build servers within a local area data center environment. As Provisioning Manager has become more widely used, customers are discovering a growing number of ways to realize value from its...
- Tags: Server Provisioning, VERITAS Software Corp., Provisioning, Veritas Provisioning Manager, Disaster Recovery, Data Management
- White papers 2006-09-01
- Iterative Water-Filling for Load-Balancing in Wireless LAN or Microcellular Networks
- This paper presents an efficient iterative load-balancing algorithm for time and bandwidth allocation among Access Points APs and users subject to heterogeneous fairness and application requirements. The algorithm can be carried out either at a central network switch with site-specific propagation predictions, or in a decentralized manner. The algorithm converges...
- Tags: Algorithm, LAN, Network, Load Balancing, WLAN, Wireless, Engineering, Networking, Network Technology
- White papers 2006-04-14
- Automated Storage Provisioning for Windows Using TotalStorage Productivity Center and Tivoli Provisioning Manager
- The provisioning of SAN attached storage capacity to a server can be a time consuming and cumbersome process. The task requires skilled storage administrators. However, there is a solution to this through automation. This paper looks at how an automated storage provisioning solution can be realized for a Windows environment...
- Tags: IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center, Storage Provisioning, Provisioning, Microsoft Windows, IBM Corp., Storage Capacity, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-04-01
- A QoS Provisioning Framework for Wireless Mesh Network
- Moving on from the first generation of Wireless Mesh Networks WMNs, where community and city-wide type mesh networks are deployed to provide best-effort network access, the next generation WMNs is about extending its capability to allow Quality of Service QoS at carrier grade level, enabling real-time and multimedia applications to...
- Tags: QoS, Network, Wireless, THALES, Mesh Networking, Networking
- White papers 2008-03-06
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