Real-time scheduling theory has developed powerful tools for translating conditions on aggregate system utilization into per-task schedulability guarantees. The main breakthrough ...
Differentiated service approach has been proposed as a potential solution to provide Quality of Services (QoS) in the next generation Internet. The ultimate goal of end-to-end serv...
Popular Internet applications deploy a multi-tier architecture, with each tier provisioning a certain functionality to its preceding tier. In this paper, we address the challengin...
Overload control mechanisms such as admission control and connection differentiation have proven effective for preventing overload of application servers running secure web applic...
—In this paper, we study how to build a front-end flow management system for SIP application servers. This is challenging because of some special characteristics of SIP and SIP a...