— This paper is concerned with modeling, analysis and optimization/control of occupancy evolution in a large building. The main concern is efficient evacuation of a building in ...
Kun Deng, Wei Chen, Prashant G. Mehta, Sean P. Mey...
Abstract. The Reliable Server Pooling (RSerPool) protocol suite currently under standardization by the IETF is designed to build systems providing highly available services by prov...
Thomas Dreibholz, Erwin P. Rathgeb, Michael Tü...
To observe, analyze and control large scale distributed systems and the applications hosted on them, there is an increasing need to continuously monitor performance attributes of ...
Shicong Meng, Srinivas R. Kashyap, Chitra Venkatra...
Resource allocation is a key problem in autonomic computing. In this paper we use a data center scenario to motivate the need for decentralization and cooperative negotiation, and...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...
To be agile and cost effective, data centers should allow dynamic resource allocation across large server pools. In particular, the data center network should enable any server to...
Albert G. Greenberg, James R. Hamilton, Navendu Ja...