In this paper, we consider an M/M/k queueing system with setup costs. Servers are turned off when there is no work to do, but turning on an off server incurs a setup cost. The s...
In this paper, we document the evolution of a banner ad delivery system from a simple CGI script written in Perl running on a single host into a distributed computing application ...
—The Domain Name System (DNS) is an essential part of the Internet infrastructure and provides fundamental services, such as translating host names into IP addresses for Internet...
Lan Wang, Xiaoliang Zhao, Dan Pei, Randy Bush, Dan...
In this paper, we study energy conservation techniques for disk array-based network servers. First, we introduce a new conservation technique, called Popular Data Concentration (P...
Providing online access to sensitive data makes web servers lucrative targets for attackers. A compromise of any of the web server’s scripts, applications, or operating system c...
Bryan Parno, Jonathan M. McCune, Dan Wendlandt, Da...