The increased complexity of performance-sensitive software systems leads to increased use of automated adaptation policies in lieu of manual performance tuning. Composition of ada...
Jin Heo, Dan Henriksson, Xue Liu, Tarek F. Abdelza...
The Reliable Server Pooling (RSerPool) protocol suite currently under standardization by the IETF is designed to build systems providing highly available services by mechanisms an...
Business rules are often implemented as stored procedures in a database server. These procedures are triggered by various clients, but the execution load is fully centralized on th...
We consider a distributed server system model and ask which policy should be used for assigning tasks to hosts. In our model each host processes tasks in First-Come-First-Serve ord...
Mor Harchol-Balter, Mark Crovella, Cristina D. Mur...
We consider cluster systems with multiple nodes where each server is prone to run tasks at a degraded level of service due to some software or hardware fault. The cluster serves t...