Internet traffic is bursty and network servers are often overloaded with surprising events or abnormal client request patterns. This paper studies a load shedding mechanism called...
Abstract. When a set of servers are available for a certain client-server style service, a client selects one of the servers using some server selection algorithm. The best-server ...
Recently, peer-to-peer (P2P) networks have emerged as an attractive solution to enable large-scale content distribution without requiring major infrastructure investments. While s...
Thomas Karagiannis, Pablo Rodriguez, Konstantina P...
Abstract. IP Geolocation is used to determine the geographical location of Internet users based on their IP addresses. When it comes to security, most of the traditional geolocatio...
Matthijs G. T. van Polen, Giovane Cesar Moreira Mo...
The Web frequently suffers from failures which affect the performance and consistency of applications run over it. An important fault-tolerance technique is the use of atomic tran...