In today’s businesses we can see the trend that serviceoriented architectures (SOA) represent the main paradigm for IT infrastructures. In this setting, a software offers its fu...
Network, web, and disk I/O traffic are usually bursty, self-similar [9, 3, 5, 6] and therefore can not be modeled adequately with Poisson arrivals[9]. However, we do want to model...
Mengzhi Wang, Ngai Hang Chan, Spiros Papadimitriou...
: Web services serve as a leading technology platform for web-based data-centric environments providing flexibility of loose coupling, message-based communication. Interest in more...
Service level agreements (SLAs), or contracts, have an important role in web services. These contracts define the obligations and rights between the provider of a web service and i...
Sidney Rosario, Albert Benveniste, Stefan Haar, Cl...
Client request rates for Internet services tend to be bursty and thus it is important to maintain efficient resource utilization under a wide range of load conditions. Network ser...