Enterprise customers are increasingly adopting MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) VPN (Virtual Private Network) service that offers direct any-to-any reachability among the cust...
Changhoon Kim, Alexandre Gerber, Carsten Lund, Dan...
This paper develops analytical models to predict the throughput and the response time of a replicated database using measurements of the workload on a standalone database. These m...
Sameh Elnikety, Steven G. Dropsho, Emmanuel Cecche...
The increased complexity of today's distributed, composite, Web-based systems presents difficult and unique systems management problems. The way these systems interact, and th...
Jeffery Li, Patrick Martin, Wendy Powley, Kirk Wil...
For applications relying on the transfer of multimedia, and in particular continuous media, it is essential that quality of service (QoS) is guaranteed system-wide, including end-s...
Andrew T. Campbell, Geoff Coulson, David Hutchison
The required real-time and high-rate transfers for multimedia data severely limit the number of requests that can be serviced concurrently by Video-on-Demand (VOD) servers. Resour...