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WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Selective early request termination for busy internet services
Internet traffic is bursty and network servers are often overloaded with surprising events or abnormal client request patterns. This paper studies a load shedding mechanism called...
Jingyu Zhou, Tao Yang
WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
A convenient method for securely managing passwords
Computer users are asked to generate, keep secret, and recall an increasing number of passwords for uses including host accounts, email servers, e-commerce sites, and online finan...
J. Alex Halderman, Brent Waters, Edward W. Felten
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
A method for transparent admission control and request scheduling in e-commerce web sites
This paper presents a method for admission control and request scheduling for multiply-tiered e-commerce Web sites, achieving both stable behavior during overload and improved res...
Sameh Elnikety, Erich M. Nahum, John M. Tracey, Wi...
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Anti-aliasing on the web
It is increasingly common for users to interact with the web using a number of different aliases. This trend is a doubleedged sword. On one hand, it is a fundamental building bloc...
Jasmine Novak, Prabhakar Raghavan, Andrew Tomkins
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
A smart hill-climbing algorithm for application server configuration
The overwhelming success of the Web as a mechanism for facilitating information retrieval and for conducting business transactions has led to an increase in the deployment of comp...
Bowei Xi, Zhen Liu, Mukund Raghavachari, Cathy H. ...