Enabling network measurement portability through a hierarchy of characteristics

Proceedings - IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 68-75

  Lowekamp, B B ^a   Tierney, B ^b   Cottrell, L ^c   Hughes Jones, R ^d   Kielmann, T ^e   Swany, M ^f  

^a The College of William and Mary   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Centralized control; Condition monitoring; Geographic Information Systems; Grid computing; Measurement standards; Particle measurements; Probes; Resource management; Throughput

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CONDITION MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MONITORING; PROBES; QUERY PROCESSING; THROUGHPUT;

ADAPTIVE APPLICATION; CENTRALIZED CONTROL; MEASUREMENT STANDARDS; MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; MEASUREMENT TOOLS; NETWORK MEASUREMENT; PARTICLE MEASUREMENT; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 84944457926     PISSN: 15505510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GRID.2003.1261700     Document Type: Conference Paper

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