Desktop Grids have become very popular nowadays, with projects that include hundred of thousands computers. Desktop grid scheduling faces two challenges. First, the platform is vo...
— In the current Internet, many applications start sessions with multiple connections to multiple servers in order to expedite the reception of data. One may argue that such aggr...
Pradnya Karbhari, Ellen W. Zegura, Mostafa H. Amma...
Abstract. Bounded fairness is a stronger notion than ordinary eventuality-based fairness, one that guarantees occurrence of an event within a fixed number of occurrences of anothe...
Nachum Dershowitz, D. N. Jayasimha, Seungjoon Park
Introducing a new concept of (, )-fairness, which allows for a bounded fairness compromise, so that a source is allocated a rate neither less than 0 1, nor more than 1, times...
Moshe Zukerman, Musa Mammadov, Liansheng Tan, Irad...
Abstract—We study the problem of dynamic resource allocation to clustered Web applications. We extend application server middleware with the ability to automatically decide the s...
David Carrera, Malgorzata Steinder, Ian Whalley, J...