context. In contrast to previous approaches that take a very abstract view of IQ properties, we allow scientists to define the quality characteristics that are of importance to the...
Alun D. Preece, Paolo Missier, Suzanne M. Embury, ...
—Clusters of identical intermediate servers are often created to improve availability and robustness in many domains. The use of proxy servers for the World Wide Web (WWW) and of...
Abstract. With many organizations now employing multiple data centres around the world to share global traffic load, it is important to understand the effects of geographical distr...
Circuit networks are expensive to build, difficult to operate, fragile, and not easily scalable. Many network operators would like to carry circuit traffic as an overlay on top of...
Kathleen M. Nichols, Van Jacobson, Kedarnath Podur...
We apply some of the existing web server redundancy techniques for high service availability and scalability to the relatively new IP telephony context. The paper compares various...