— Traditional SLAs, defined by average delay or packet loss, often camouflage the instantaneous performance perceived by end-users. We define a set of metrics for service avai...
Abstract. We introduce a novel remotely-mounted attack that can expose the network identity of an anonymous client, hidden service, and anonymizing proxies. To achieve this, we emp...
To cope with the explosive increase in the number of requests to Internet server systems, one popular solution is a load-balancing technique that uses a dispatcher in the front-en...
We demonstrate a framework for improving the availability of cluster based Internet services. Our approach models Internet services as a collection of interconnected components, e...
In large-scale clusters and computational grids, component failures become norms instead of exceptions. Failure occurrence as well as its impact on system performance and operatio...