We study a queueing network where customers go through several stages of processing, with the class of a customer used to indicate the stage of processing. The customers are servic...
Recently, under a fixed power budget, asymmetric multiprocessors (AMP) have been proposed to improve the performance of multi-threaded applications compared to symmetric multiproc...
Motivated by the need to study traffic flow affected by incidents we consider M/M/C queueing system where servers operate in a Markovian environment. When a traffic incident hap...
Given that the global DNS system, especially at the higher root and top-levels, experiences significant query loads, we seek to answer the following questions: (1) How does the ch...
Server applications with adaptive behaviors can adapt their functionality in response to environmental changes, and significantly reduce the on-going costs of system deployment an...