Given a set of rectangles with fixed orientations, we want to find an enclosing rectangle of minimum area that contains them all with no overlap. Many simple scheduling tasks ca...
FG is a programming environment for asynchronous programs that run on clusters and fit into a pipeline framework. It enables the programmer to write a series of synchronous functi...
: We present an architecture and prototype implementation of a performance management system for cluster-based web services. The system supports multiple classes of web services tr...
Ronald M. Levy, Jay Nagarajarao, Giovanni Pacifici...
First Come First Served is a policy that is accepted for implementing fairness in a number of application domains such as scheduling in Operating Systems [28, 11], scheduling web ...
A novel algorithm for buffer management and rate allocation is presented for providing loss and delay differentiation for traffic classes at a network router. The algorithm, calle...