This paper is concerned with workload minimization in re-entrant lines with exponential service times and preemptive control policies. Using a numerical algorithm called the power...
Abstract. Autonomic computing networks manage multiple tasks over a distributed network of resources. In this paper, we view an autonomic computing system as a network of queues, w...
- 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...
Abstract—In this work, we discuss how to support Video-onDemand service in multi-hop WiMax mesh networks. We are interested in the scenario that end users connect to the video se...
In this paper, we study a peer-to-peer media streaming system with the following characteristics: (1) its streaming capacity grows dynamically; (2) peers do not exhibit serverlike...
Dongyan Xu, Mohamed Hefeeda, Susanne E. Hambrusch,...