SIGCOMM '92 Conference proceedings on Communications architectures & protocols
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IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
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IEEE Internet Computing
End-to-End Provision of Policy Information for Network QoS
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An autonomic network-aware scheduling architecture for grid computing
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QoS Requirements for a Medical Application on the Grid
Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design IV
Evaluation of Flow-Aware Networking (FAN) architectures under GridFTP traffic
Future Generation Computer Systems
Harmony - Advance Reservations in Heterogeneous Multi-domain Environments
NETWORKING '09 Proceedings of the 8th International IFIP-TC 6 Networking Conference
Provision and analysis of QoS for distributed grid applications
WiCOM'09 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Wireless communications, networking and mobile computing
Application of QoS based grid task scheduling to on-line examination system
WiCOM'09 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Wireless communications, networking and mobile computing
Network-aware heuristics for inter-domain meta-scheduling in Grids
Journal of Computer and System Sciences
Admission control in Flow-Aware Networking (FAN) architectures under GridFTP traffic
Optical Switching and Networking
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Grid users may wish to have fine-grained control of quality of service (QoS) guarantees in a network in order to allow timely data transfer in a distributed application environment. We present a discussion of the issues and problems involved, with some critical analysis. We propose possible solutions by making reference to and analysing existing work. Also, we describe the mechanisms being proposed as part of a work-in-progress (being conducted by the authors) that uses a peer-to-peer approach to micro-manage network capacity allocations at the edge of the network, at end-sites, in a multi-domain scenario. Scheduling controllers at the end-sites are employed, which are subject to local administrative controls and have flexibility in resource allocation based on user requests for network capacity. We highlight the issues in scaling such systems to large numbers of users and the issues concerning the interfaces available to applications and end-users for accessing such services.