SIGMETRICS
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2002
ACM
Scalable resource discovery services form the core of directory and other middleware services. Scalability requirements preclude centralized solutions. The need to have directory ...
SIGMETRICS
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2002
ACM
Being able to model contention for software resources (e.g., a critical section or database lock) is paramount to building performance models that capture all aspects of the delay...
SIGMETRICS
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2002
ACM
On-line routing algorithms deal with requests as they arrive without assuming any knowledge of the underlying process that generates the streams of requests. By contrast, off-line...
SIGMETRICS
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2002
ACM
We describe a new, non-FCFS policy to schedule parallel jobs on systems that may be part of a computational grid. Our algorithm continuously monitors the system (i.e., the intensi...
SIGMETRICS
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2002
ACM
We explore the performance of an M/GI/1 queue under various scheduling policies from the perspective of a new metric: the it slowdown experienced by largest jobs. We consider sche...
SIGMETRICS
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2002
ACM
SIGMETRICS
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2002
ACM
SIGMETRICS
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2002
ACM
The number and heterogeneity of requests to Web sites are increasing also because the Web technology is becoming the preferred interface for information systems. Many systems host...
SIGMETRICS
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2002
ACM
Hot spots are a major obstacle to achieving scalability in the Internet. We have observed that the existence of hot spots in upload applications (whose examples include submission...
SIGMETRICS
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2002
ACM
Estimating end-to-end Internet distance can benefit many applications and services, such as efficient overlay construction, overlay routing and location, and peer-topeer systems. ...