Web servers must be protected from overload since server overload leads to low server throughput and increased response times experienced by the clients. Server overload occurs wh...
As Internet services become more popular and pervasive, a critical problem that arises is managing the performance of services under extreme overload. This paper presents a set of...
Overload control mechanisms such as admission control and connection differentiation have proven effective for preventing overload of application servers running secure web applic...
Although Web prefetching is regarded as an effective method to improve client access performance, the associated overhead prevents it from being widely deployed. Specifically, a ...
This paper presents a method for admission control and request scheduling for multiply-tiered e-commerce Web sites, achieving both stable behavior during overload and improved res...
Sameh Elnikety, Erich M. Nahum, John M. Tracey, Wi...