As Data Grids become more commonplace, large data sets are being replicated and distributed to multiple sites, leading to the problem of determining which replica can be accessed ...
Sudharshan Vazhkudai, Jennifer M. Schopf, Ian T. F...
— Loss networks provide a powerful tool for the analysis and design of many communication and networking systems. It is well known that a large number of loss networks have produ...
In this paper, we illustrate a model-based approach to Web server performance evaluation, and present an analytic queueing model of Web servers in distributed environments. Perfor...
Modern IT systems serve many different business processes on a shared infrastructure in parallel. The automatic request execution on the numerous interconnected components, hosted...
Queueing delays experienced by packets buffered at a node are among the most difficult to predict when considering the performance of a flow in a network. The arrivals of packets a...