Supporting Web-based services through geographical distributed clusters of servers is a common solution to the increasing volume and variability of modern traffic. These architec...
Mauro Andreolini, Sara Casolari, Michele Colajanni
With the wide-spread popularity of the World-Wide Web (WWW), network and server load increases dramatically. Caching proxies have been introduced to improve the system performance...
Ka Lun Eddie Law, Biswajit Nandy, A. S. J. Chapman
Accurate performance predictions are difficult to achieve for parallel applications executing on production distributed systems. Conventional point-valued performance parameters a...
Traditional performance models are too brittle to be relied on for continuous capacity planning and performance debugging in many computer systems. Simply put, a brittle model is ...
Discrete-event (DE) models are formal system specifications that have analyzable deterministic behaviors. Using a global, consistent notion of time, DE components communicate via...