Title :
Guest Editors´ Introduction: Application-Level QoS
Author :
Woodside, Murray ; Menascé, Daniel A.
Author_Institution :
Carleton University
Abstract :
Application-level quality of service (QoS) is the Achilles´ heel of services offered overthe Internet. The articles in this special issue cover various aspects of this complex problem, while exposing the challenges we have yet to overcome.
Keywords :
QoS; distributed applications; quality of service; Data security; Databases; Delay; Design methodology; Middleware; Predictive models; Quality of service; Testing; Uncertainty; Web and internet services; QoS; distributed applications; quality of service;
Journal_Title :
Internet Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MIC.2006.49