With the spread of the Internet the computing model on server systems is undergoing several important changes. Recent research ideas concerning dynamic operating system extensibil...
Slowdown, defined as the ratio of a request’s queueing delay to its service time, is accepted as an important quality of service metric of Internet servers. In this paper, we i...
Xiaobo Zhou, Yu Cai, C. Edward Chow, Marijke F. Au...
The development of network-attached devices has ushered in an era of autonomous, multi-function equipment demanding minimal human interaction: the only requirements are data and e...
Michael J. McMahon Jr., Sergiu M. Dascalu, Frederi...
: The Internet is experiencing an overwhelming growth that will have a negative impact on its performance and quality of service. In this paper we describe a new architecture that ...
Juan Carlos Diaz y Carballo, Alan Dearle, Richard ...
We propose a new connection management architecture for clustered Internet services called Active Connection Management (ACM) to improve the availability, quality of service, and ...