In order to deliver a qualitative Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) service over vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), a quality of service (QoS) mechanism is needed to manage the allocate of network resources to the diverse IPTV application traffic demands. Unlike other mobile network, VANETs have certain unique characteristic that presents several difficulties in providing an effective QoS. S...

We present a mathematically rigorous Quality-of-Service (QoS) metric which relates the achievable quality of service metric (QoS) for a real-time analytics service to the server energy cost of offering the service. Using a new iso-QoS evaluation methodology, we scale server resources to meet QoS targets and directly rank the servers in terms of their energy-efficiency and by extension cost of o...

Determining the QoS (quality of service) of composite Web services is of high importance for both service providers and service consumers. Heterogeneity of service descriptions, however, often hinders the aggregation of QoS parameters. We propose ontology-based QoS aggregation that integrates the semantics of QoS parameters and their aggregation into the overall aggregation process. The contrib...

Cloud computing systems promise to offer subscription-based, enterprise-quality computing services to users worldwide. As the demand for delivering services to a large number of users has increased, they need to offer differentiated services to users and meet their expected quality requirements. Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) enables the alignment of loosely coupled services with different le...

In this paper, we present a quality of service (QoS) architecture for supporting real-time data transmission in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). The QoS architecture includes a QoS transport layer, QoS routing, queue management and a priority MAC protocol. Through simulations, we find that the QoS architecture reduces packet delay and greatly improves the quality of realtime video streams in MA...

Service-oriented architecture facilitates rapid development and management of large-scale distributed servicebased systems (SBS), where new workflows are composed of available services. Besides services’ capabilities, the qualities of services (QoS) also need to be considered in service composition in order to have high-quality workflows. The QoS profiles of services provided by their service p...

In distributed multimedia systems, since multimedia objects are voluminous and unstructured, manipulation, transfer and visualization of such objects can require a lot of time and resources. It then becomes essential to prevent unsatisfactory information delivery. For that purpose, Quality of Service (QoS) management appears as an essential function supplied by distributed multimedia systems to...

Building high quality cloud applications becomes an urgently required research problem. Nonfunctional performance of cloud services is usually described by quality-of-service (QoS). In cloud applications, cloud services are invoked remotely by internet connections. The QoS Ranking of cloud services for a user cannot be transferred directly to another user, since the locations of the cloud appli...

Most web services need to be contracted through service level agreements that typically specify a certain quality of service (QoS) in return for a certain price. We propose a new form of service level agreement where the price is determined by the QoS actually delivered. We show that such agreements make it optimal for the service provider to deliver the service at the promised quality. To allo...