Virtualised e-Learning on the IRMOS real-time Cloud

Service Oriented Computing and Applications

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 151-166

  Cucinotta, Tommaso ^a   Checconi, Fabio ^a   Kousiouris, George ^b   Konstanteli, Kleopatra ^b   Gogouvitis, Spyridon ^b   Kyriazis, Dimosthenis ^b   Varvarigou, Theodora ^b   Mazzetti, Alessandro ^c   Zlatev, Zlatko ^d   Papay, Juri ^d   Boniface, Michael ^d   Berger, Sören ^e   Lamp, Dominik ^e   Voith, Thomas ^f   Stein, Manuel ^f  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c eXact learning solutions SpA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^f NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

e Learning; Real time scheduling; Stochastic modelling; Virtualised infrastructures

Indexed keywords

E-LEARNING APPLICATION; EUROPEAN PROJECT; INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONS; MOBILE CONTENT DELIVERY; PERFORMANCE GUARANTEES; REAL TIME SCHEDULING; RUNTIMES; SOFT REAL TIME; STOCHASTIC MODELLING; VIRTUAL WORLDS; VIRTUALISED INFRASTRUCTURES;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SCHEDULING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 84861234194     PISSN: 18632386     EISSN: 18632394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11761-011-0089-4     Document Type: Article

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