QoS (Quality of Service) support in Web services is an important issue since it ensures service usability and utility for each client and, in addition, improves server utilization...
To accommodate the exponential growth of Web traffic, Content Distribution Networks (CDN) have been designed and deployed to distribute content to different cache servers, and to ...
Lin Cai, Jun Ye, Jianping Pan, Xuemin Shen, Jon W....
Web service composition provision which requires efficient coordination of the execution of component services is a critical issue in service-oriented computing. Nowadays, BPEL4WS...
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In cluster-based storage systems, the metadata server cluster must be able to adaptively distribute responsibility for metadata to maintain high system performance and long-term l...
Fault tolerance is a constant concern in data centers where servers have to run with a minimal level of failures. Changes on the operating conditions or on server demands, and var...