In this paper, we propose using the network-attached disk (NAD) architecture to design highly scalable and cost-effective multimedia-on-demand (MOD) servers. In order to ensure en...
As dependence on the World Wide Web continues to grow, so does the need for businesses to have quantitative measures of the client perceived response times of their Web services. ...
The science of network service composition has emerged as one of the grand themes of networking research [17] as a direct result of the complexity and sophistication of emerging n...
Azer Bestavros, Adam Bradley, Assaf J. Kfoury, Ibr...
As service providers strive to improve the quality and efficiency of their IT (information technology) management services, the need to adopt a standard set of tools and processes...
We apply some of the existing web server redundancy techniques for high service availability and scalability to the relatively new IP telephony context. The paper compares various...