Abstract. Despite recent improvements in wireless network protocols and the manufacturing of better, more performant mobile devices, developing mobile applications and services sti...
Proportional slowdown differentiation (PSD) aims to maintain slowdown ratios between different classes of clients according to their pre-specified differentiation parameters. In t...
—In this paper, we argue that weak cache consistency mechanisms supported by existing Web proxy caches must be augmented by strong consistency mechanisms to support the growing d...
Over the last few years, application-layer multicast (ALM) has emerged as a plausible solution for supporting group-oriented applications. However, ALM suffers from inefficiency ...
Power-performance optimization is a relatively new problem area particularly in the context of server clusters. Poweraware request distribution is a method of scheduling service r...