Abstract

Network convergence and new applications running on end-hosts result in increasingly variable and unpredictable traffic patterns. By providing origin-destination pairs with several possible paths, load-balancing has proved itself an excellent tool to face this uncertainty. Formally, [...]

Abstract

The issue of providing Quality of Service (QoS) in the Internet is becoming more and more important because of two phenomena: (1) the growth of value added services that require QoS (e.g., IPTV) and (2) network convergence towards a unified IP-based architecture, for voice, image [...]