The availability of high-speed transmission media and networking equipment in contemporary networks, as well as the evolution of quality-demanding applications has focused researc...
Content distribution networks (CDNs) increase the capacity of individual Web sites and attempt to deliver content from caches that are located "closer" to end-users than...
Alexandros Biliris, Charles D. Cranor, Fred Dougli...
Large-scale distributed applications are becoming more and more demanding in terms of efficiency and flexibility of the technological infrastructure, for which traditional soluti...
We present a method for the prediction of the performance of a service-oriented architecture during its early stage of development. The system under scrutiny is modelled with the U...
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...