The trend of data intensive grid applications has brought grid storage protocols and servers into focus. The objective of this study is to gain an understanding of how time is spen...
Prefetching – die vorsorgliche ¨Ubertragung in Zukunft wahrscheinlich ben¨otigter Daten – stellt in verteilten Client-Server-Systemen ein wichtiges Konzept dar, um die Leist...
The use of feedback control theory for performance guarantees in QoS-aware systems has gained much attention in recent years. In this paper, we investigate merging, within a singl...
Ying Lu 0002, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Chenyang Lu, Lu...
A high-performance file system is normally a key point for large cluster installations, where hundreds or even thousands of nodes frequently need to manage large volumes of data. ...
Abstract Many models for customers impatience in queueing systems have been studied in the past; the source of impatience has always been taken to be either a long wait already exp...