With the rapid advances in Internet and Grid technique, an increasing number of applications will involve computing systems. These applications in turn create an increasing demand ...
Internet service utilities host multiple server applications on a shared server cluster. A key challenge for these systems is to provision shared resources on demand to meet servi...
Ronald P. Doyle, Jeffrey S. Chase, Omer M. Asad, W...
We study large-scale service systems with multiple customer classes and many statistically identical servers. The following question is addressed: How many servers are required (s...
—The ability of a web service to provide low-latency access to its contents is constrained by available network bandwidth. It is important for the service to manage available ban...
There is a growing demand for provisioning of different levels of quality of service (QoS) on Web servers to meet changing resource availability and satisfy different client requi...
Xiaobo Zhou, Yu Cai, Ganesh Godavari, C. Edward Ch...