A weapon system consisting of a swarm of air vehicles whose mission is to search for, classify, attack, and perform battle damage assessment, is considered. It is assumed that the target field information is communicated to all the elements of the swarm as it becomes available. A network flow optimization problem is posed whose readily obtained solution yields the optimum resource allocation am...

A distributed operating system is one that looks to its user like an ordinary centralized operating system, but runs on multiple, independent nodes. A distributed operating system should: control resource allocation to allow their use in the most effective way; provide the user with a convenient virtual computer that serves as a high-level programming environment; hide the distribution of the r...

We develop a bicriteria model for the resource allocation problem in PERT networks, in which the total direct costs of the project as the first objective, and the mean of project completion time as the second objective are minimized. The activity durations are assumed to be independent random variables with either exponential or Erlang distributions, in which the mean of each activity duration ...

The issue of management and allocation of resources in cloud computing environments, according to the breadth of scale and modern technology implementation, is a complicated issue. Issues such as: the heterogeneity of resources, resource dependencies to each other, the dynamics of the environment, virtualization, workload diversity as well as a wide range of management objectives of cloud servi...

An Agent-Based Approach for Distributed Resource Allocations Antoine Nongaillard, PhD Concordia University Université Lille 1, 2009 Resource allocation problems have been widely studied according to various scenarios in literature. In such problems, a set of resources must be allocated to a set of agents, according to their own preferences. Self-organization issues in telecommunication, schedul...

Abstract Distributed antenna network (DAN) can mitigate the problems arising from of the propagation path loss and shadowing loss and achieve better transmission performance over the entire cell area compared to centralized antenna network (CAN). Many transmit antennas are spatially distributed in DAN while they are co-located at the same base station in CAN. The use of space time block coded t...

Application-layer networks (ALN) are software architectures that allow the provisioning of services requiring a huge amount of resources by connecting large numbers of individual computers. The ALN simulation project CATNET evaluates a decentralized mechanism for resource allocation in ALN, which is based on the economic paradigm of the Catallaxy, against a centralized mechanism using an arbitr...

Considerable efforts are going on towards the decentralization of Grid Information Service (GIS). In order to facilitate resource sharing it is important that Grid Resource Management System (GRMS) finds the location of desired service and timely fashion. Current approaches to resource discovery in GIS are based on centralized or hierarchical client/server models. In this model one or more inde...

Introduction of new services on the Internet is a laborious, time-consuming task. Application networks, applications being serviced through multiple interconnected service nodes disseminated across the Internet for better performance, fault tolerance and availability, as well are costly to set up. In order to provide a network-enabled application service, a number of surrogate servers have to b...