This paper describes a proposal for a framework allowing the interoperability between ISP management domains for the purpose of satisfying end to end user requirements based on agreed SLAs (Service Level Agreement). The paper considers future policy based enabled equipments and management centres based on the ongoing work undertaken in the frame of the rap (resource allocation protocol) and pol...

Peer-to-peer (P2P) locality has recently raised a lot of interest in the community. Indeed, whereas P2P content distribution enables financial savings for the content providers, it dramatically increases the traffic on inter-ISP links. To solve this issue, the idea to keep a fraction of the P2P traffic local to each ISP was introduced a few years ago. Since then, P2P solutions exploiting locali...

This document contains recommendations on how Internet Service Providers can use various remediation techniques to manage the effects of malicious bot infestations on computers used by their subscribers. Internet users with infected computers are exposed to risks such as loss of personal data and increased susceptibility to online fraud. Such computers can also become inadvertent participants i...

BACKGROUND The extent to which differences in cardiovascular risk between smokers with similar daily tobacco consumption may be related to plasma levels of inflammation-sensitive proteins (ISP) and whether these proteins are associated with levels of carboxyhemoglobin (COHb%) have not been clarified. METHODS AND RESULTS In a population-based cohort of 1489 never smokers, 1685 former smokers, ...

Cooperation between peer-to-peer (P2P) overlays and underlying networks has been proposed as an effective approach to improve the efficiency of both the applications and the underlying networks. However, fundamental characteristics with respect to ISP business relationships and inter-ISP routing information are not sufficiently investigated in the context of collaborative ISP-P2P paradigms in m...

Interhemispheric interactions through the corpus callosum play an important role in the control of bimanual forces. However, the extent to which physiological connections between primary motor cortices are modulated during increasing levels of bimanual force generation in intact humans remains poorly understood. Here we studied coherence between electroencephalographic (EEG) signals and the ips...

In safety-critical embedded real-time systems the timing behaviour is of highest importance, because applications underlie timing constraints that have to be met. Otherwise the system might fail causing harm to humans, the environment, or the system itself. Therefore, such hard real-time systems have to provide timing guarantees. Since the timing behaviour of the system does not only depend on ...

An ion sensitive probe (ISP) is developed as a robust diagnostic for measuring plasma potentials (Φ(P)) in magnetized plasmas. The ISP relies on the large difference between the ion and electron gyroradii (ρ(i)/ρ(e)∼60) to reduce the electron collection at a collector recessed behind a separately biased wall distance ∼ρ(i). We develop a new ISP method to measure the plasma potential that is ind...

This paper describes a new framework for the interoperability between ISP management domain for the purpose of satisfying end user requirement based on service level agreements (SLA) set up between a customer and its related ISP and also SLA set up between ISPs. The paper considers future policy based enabled equipments and management centers based on the ongoing work undertaken in the frame of...