In this paper we discuss the need for resource reservation in the Internet and examine some of the strengths and weaknesses of RSVP, which is currently the most popular of Internet reservation protocols that have been developed. We also discuss some alternative reservation protocols for packet networks, in particular the ATM Block Transfer(ABT) reservation protocol that has been designed for us...

In most Grid systems, submitted jobs are initially placed into a queue if there are no available compute nodes. Therefore, there is no guarantee as to when these jobs will be executed. This usage policy may cause a problem for time-critical applications or task graphs where jobs have inter-dependencies. To address this issue, using advance reservation (AR) in Grid systems would allow users to s...

Table 1: Reservation probabilities for A uniform on 0; a] and unit intervals. The ^ P(a;) are values from simulations. Algorithmics is yet another obvious avenue of research. The greedy rule is a theme of this paper, but in general it is unlikely to be an optimal policy in the sense of maximizing the reservation probability. As a simple example, consider unit reservation intervals and advance n...

Real-time applications in dynamic systems such as multimedia systems may change their timing characteristics on the fly and may be created and terminated at any time. A priori resource allocation decisions may not hold throughout the lifetime of such applications because of changing user needs and interests. The ability to monitor and control system resources dynamically is fundamental to build...

As many travelers use online for their travel arrangement, hotels provide online reservation system, so as to take the benefits of internet marketing such as the cost reduction. However, there has been minimal research regarding a detailed examination of hotel booking Web sites and e-service performance on customers’ reuse intentions for online hotel reservation. This paper thus examines the ef...

In this paper we present the BandWidth Inheritance (BWI) protocol, a new strategy for scheduling real-time tasks in dynamic systems, which extends the resource reservation framework to systems where tasks can interact through shared resources. The proposed protocol provides temporal isolation between independent groups of tasks, and enables a schedulability analysis for guaranteeing the perform...

In this paper, we present an application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to the design and implementation of Airline Reservation System (ARS). We provide a multi autonomous agent based framework. Autonomous agents are intelligent enough and provide autonomy, simplicity of communication, computation, and a well developed semantics. The steps of design and implementation are discussed in depth, i...

The Internet, like most packet switched networks, is vulnerable to aggressive behaviors of emerging multimedia applications. Such deficiency can be overcome through the intervention of a network manager. The manager makes a management strategy aimed at improving the entire network’s performance and guides selfoptimizing users to achieve their individual performance objectives in harmony. This p...