The Internet is undergoing substantial changes from a communication and browsing infrastructure to a medium for conducting business and marketing a myriad of services. The World W...
Abstract—In the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing market, spot instances refer to virtual servers that are rented via an auction. Spot instances allow IaaS provi...
The use of feedback control theory for performance guarantees in QoS-aware systems has gained much attention in recent years. In this paper, we investigate merging, within a singl...
Ying Lu 0002, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Chenyang Lu, Lu...
As more business applications have become web enabled, the web server architecture has evolved to provide performance isolation, service differentiation, and QoS guarantees. Vario...
— Managing the performance of multiple-tiered Web sites under high client loads is a critical problem with the advent of dynamic content and database-driven servers on the Intern...