End-to-end Internet packet dynamics
SIGCOMM '97 Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM '97 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Why we don't know how to simulate the Internet
Proceedings of the 29th conference on Winter simulation
Best-effort versus reservations: a simple comparative analysis
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM '98 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Distributed Processing over Stand-alone Systems and Applications
VLDB '97 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
WISE: Business to Business E-Commerce
RIDE '99 Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering: Information Technology for Virtual Enterprises
Fundamental design issues for the future Internet
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
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Electronic commerce has attracted a great deal of attention recently. Among the different types of electronic commerce, business-to-business is the one most wide-spread in terms of turnover. An important aspect in business- to-business e-commerce scenarios is how to meet response time and throughput requirements of applications in spite of execution taking place across corporate boundaries and, in the future, via the Internet instead of using leased lines. Given the unpredictable variations of available bandwidth in today's Internet, providing Application Quality of Service guarantees for these requirements is a complex task. Due to the current trend to run multimedia applications over the Internet, we assume that the future Internet will not only support best effort service but also guaranteed service, e.g., via network resource reservation. This allows to take advantage of this service also for e-commerce applications. The problem remains non-trivial due to the wide variations among application scenarios. As a first step towards implementing a generic solution, this paper proposes a scheme which enables virtual business processes to meet response times and throughput requirements through network resource reservation. The paper describes the application scenarios we have in mind, the system where these ideas are being implemented (WISE), and the mechanisms involved in providing Quality of Service guarantees at the application level.