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2009
ACM
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Restrained utilization of idleness for transparent scheduling of background tasks
A common practice in system design is to treat features intended to enhance performance and reliability as low priority tasks by scheduling them during idle periods, with the goal...
Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Xin Li, Evgenia Smirni, E...
SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
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Maximum likelihood estimation of the flow size distribution tail index from sampled packet data
In the context of network traffic analysis, we address the problem of estimating the tail index of flow (or more generally of any group) size distribution from the observation of...
Patrick Loiseau, Paulo Gonçalves, Sté...
SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
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Self-adaptive admission control policies for resource-sharing systems
We consider the problem of admission control in resource sharing systems, such as web servers and transaction processing systems, when the job size distribution has high variabili...
Varun Gupta, Mor Harchol-Balter
SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
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DRAM errors in the wild: a large-scale field study
Errors in dynamic random access memory (DRAM) are a common form of hardware failure in modern compute clusters. Failures are costly both in terms of hardware replacement costs and...
Bianca Schroeder, Eduardo Pinheiro, Wolf-Dietrich ...
SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
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Delay tolerant bulk data transfers on the internet
Many emerging scientific and industrial applications require transferring multiple Tbytes of data on a daily basis. Examples include pushing scientific data from particle accele...
Nikolaos Laoutaris, Georgios Smaragdakis, Pablo Ro...