A method for providing QoS in Distributed Virtual Environments

Proceedings - 13th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing 2005, PDP 2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 152-159

  Morillo, P ^a   Orduna J M ^a   Fernandez M ^a   Duato, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SERVERS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; PARTITIONING PROBLEM; SYSTEM LATENCY; SYSTEM THROUGHPUT;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 33646553889     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMPDP.2005.4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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