The paper presents a novel end-to-end seamless framework to support end-to-end Quality of Service and Traffic Engineering. The network model is based on the MPLS/DiffServ paradigm and addresses the definition of a network architecture according to both users and network providers requirements. A first solution relies on the centralized MPLS/DiffServ based Multi-protocol Access Inter-Domain (MAI...

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An important element of electronic inter-enterprise interactions is support for a rapid and cost-effective establishment of contracts, monitoring of parties’ performance to the contract and possible enforcement capability. We have previously developed a business contract architecture to address these requirements [6,7]. This paper presents an extension of the earlier work. The concept of bindin...

A principal goal of the Project Integration Architecture (PIA) is to facilitate the meaningful inter-application transfer of application-value-added information. Such exchanging applications may be largely unrelated to each other except through their applicability to an overall project; however, the PIA effort recognizes as fundamental the need to make such applications cooperate despite wide d...

The strategic value of Inter-Organizational Information System (IOIS), regarded as an automated information system shared by two or more companies, highly depends on its architecture to support agile business needs. The main requirements of this architecture for supporting business agility are flexibility and scalability, interoperability and integration as well as processcentric architecture a...

In this paper we present a flexible architecture providing a communication platform between heterogeneous components for inter-domain QoS and traffic analysis in large-scale, multi-domain Internet infrastructures.

The question of how a service consumer and a service provider should collaborate with each other in a business-to-business (B2B) setting is an ongoing research issue. The concept of electronic Sourcing (eSourcing) has been proposed as an integral concept with the EU research project CrossWork. The properties of eSourcing are explored, however, the question arises how a service consumer and a pr...

This paper presents a hardware implementation of a Time Multiplexing Architecture (TMA) that can interconnect arrays of neurons in an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) using a single metal wire. The approach exploits the relative slow operational speed of the biological system by using fast digital hardware to sequentially sample neurons in a layer and transmit the associated spikes to neurons in...

Virtual machine migration is an important tool that can be used in cloud computing environment for load balancing, disaster recovery, server consolidation, hardware maintenance, etc. Currently a few techniques have been proposed to secure the virtual machine migration process. However, these techniques have number of limitations e.g. lack of standard access control, mutual authentication, confi...

This paper proposes an efficient hardware architecture for high efficiency video coding (HEVC), which is the next generation video compression standard. It adopts several new coding techniques to reduce the bit rate by about 50% compared with the previous one. Unlike the previous H.264/AVC 6-tap interpolation filter, in HEVC, a one-dimensional seven-tap and eight-tap filter is adopted for luma ...