The empirical investigation of the effectiveness of information retrieval (IR) systems requires a test collection, a set of query topics, and a set of relevance judgments made by ...
We study the effects of RED on the performance of Web browsing with a novel aspect of our work being the use of a usercentric measure of performance — response time for HTTP req...
Mikkel Christiansen, Kevin Jeffay, David Ott, F. D...
We investigate the effect of search engine brand (i.e., the identifying name or logo that distinguishes a product from its competitors) on evaluation of system performance. This r...
—Several analytic models describe the steady-state throughput of bulk transfer TCP flows as a function of round trip time and packet loss rate. These models describe flows base...
Dynamic storage allocation continues to play an important role in the performance and correctness of systems ranging from user productivity software to high-performance servers. W...
Trishul M. Chilimbi, Richard E. Jones, Benjamin G....