Long-range dependence (LRD) is a widely verified property of Internet traffic, which severely affects network performance yielding longer queuing delays. Token-bucket policers ...
Overload can reduce the overall performance of a computer system up to a point where the whole service might collapse. Thus, for example the load on a server must be controlled to...
A crucial issue in the design of Component-Based (CB) applications is the ability to early guarantee that the system under development will satisfy its Quality of Service requireme...
World Wide Web search engines typically return thousands of results to the users. To avoid users browsing through the whole list of results, search engines use ranking algorithms ...
In this paper, we consider the problem of maximizing the battery life (or duration of service) in battery-powered CMOS circuits. We first show that the battery efficiency (or utili...