Dynamic Application Profiles using Neural Networks for adaptive quality of service support in the Internet

Computer Communications

Volumn 29, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 2985-2995

  Tsetsekas, Charilaos A ^a   Fertis, Apostolos G ^a   Venieris, Iakovos S ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Differentiated Services; Dynamic Application Profiles; End User Application Toolkit; Neural Networks; Quality of Service

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; INTERNET; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PACKET NETWORKS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

DIFFERENTIATED SERVICES; DISTRIBUTED QOS ARCHITECTURE; DYNAMIC APPLICATION PROFILES; END-USER APPLICATION TOOLKIT;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 33747173680     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2006.04.007     Document Type: Article

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