Load sharing in the data centre is an essential strategy for meeting service levels in high volume and high availability services. We investigate the accuracy with which simple, cl...
Abstract Utility Data Center (UDC) provides a exible, coste ective infrastructure to support the hosting of applications for Internet services. In order to enable the design of a \...
The performance of an e-commerce application can be measured according to technical metrics but also following business indicators. The revenue obtained by a commercial web applic...
Control methods are being used increasingly for uncertainty management and QoS in modern web server systems. Previous approaches have suggested combined feedforward and feedback c...
This paper addresses two questions. Firstly, how is it possible for an application to become aware of network conditions and secondly, given this awareness, how can a system be de...
Kristoffer Getchell, Martin Bateman, Colin Allison...