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