Random Medium-Access-Control (MAC) algorithms have played an increasingly important role in the development of wired and wireless Local Area Networks (LANs) and yet the performanc...
Charles Bordenave, David McDonald, Alexandre Prout...
World Wide Web, the biggest distributed system ever built, experiences tremendous growth and change in Web sites, users, and technology. A realistic and accurate characterization ...
Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova, Fengbin Li, Xuan Wan...
- Since many Web applications employ a multi-tier architecture, in this paper, we focus on the problem of analytically modeling the behavior of such applications. We present a mode...
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Giovanni Pacifici, Prashant J. S...
Many time series exhibit dynamics over vastly different time scales. The standard way to capture this behavior is to assume that the slow dynamics are a “trend”, to de-trend t...
Supermarkets lose millions of pounds every year through lost trading and stock wastage caused by the failure of refrigerated cabinets. Therefore, a huge commercial market exists fo...