Current developments show that tomorrow’s information systems and applications will no longer be based on monolithic architectures that encompass all the functionality. Rather, t...
There is a growing demand for provisioning of different levels of quality of service (QoS) on Web servers to meet changing resource availability and satisfy different client requi...
Xiaobo Zhou, Yu Cai, Ganesh Godavari, C. Edward Ch...
This paper addresses two questions. Firstly, how is it possible for an application to become aware of network conditions and secondly, given this awareness, how can a system be de...
Kristoffer Getchell, Martin Bateman, Colin Allison...
Performance critical services over Internet often rely on geographically distributed architectures of replicated servers. Content Delivery Networks (CDN) are a typical example whe...
— The Internet has witnessed a rapid growth in deployment of Web-based streaming applications during recent years. In these applications, server should be able to perform end-to-...
Reza Rejaie, Haobo Yu, Mark Handley, Deborah Estri...