This paper uses a probe-based sampling approach to study the behavioural properties of Web server scheduling strategies, such as Processor Sharing (PS) and Shortest Remaining Proc...
: The WWW is currently experiencing a revolutionary growth due to its increasing participative community software applications. This paper highlights an emerging application develo...
Several recent language designs have offered a unified language for programming a distributed system, with explicit notation of locations; we call these “location-aware” lan...
In this paper we experimentally analyse various dynamic timeout adjustment strategies in server queues as potential counter-measures against degradation of service attacks. Previo...
Two convincing paradigms have emerged for achieving scalability in widely distributed systems: publish/subscribe communication and role-based, policy-driven control of access to t...
Jean Bacon, David M. Eyers, Jatinder Singh, Peter ...