On availability QoS for replicated multimedia service and content

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2515, Issue , 2002, Pages 313-326

  On, Giwon ^a   Schmitt, Jens ^a   Steinmetz, Ralf ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVAILABILITY; HEURISTIC METHODS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

ACHIEVED AVAILABILITY; CRITICAL FACTORS; INTERNET-BASED SERVICES; QOS PARAMETERS; QOS REQUIREMENTS; REPLICA PLACEMENT; SERVICE AVAILABILITY; SIMULATION STUDIES;

MULTIMEDIA SERVICES;

EID: 84943764296     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-36166-9_27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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