It is common that Internet service hosting centres use several logical pools to assign server resources to different applications, and that they try to achieve the highest total r...
James Wen Jun Xue, Adam P. Chester, Ligang He, Ste...
This paper presents an examination of two distinct but complementary extensions of previous work on hot spot contention in multistage interconnection networks. The first extensio...
Matthew K. Farrens, Brad Wetmore, Allison Woodruff
— Structured peer-to-peer systems have emerged as infrastructures for resource sharing in large-scale, distributed, and dynamic environments. One challenge in these systems is to...
We present a model, based on the maximum entropy method, for analyzing various measures of retrieval performance such as average precision, R-precision, and precision-at-cutoffs....
Abstract—In this paper we analyze the M/G/1 processor sharing queue with heavy tailed services and with impatient customers. It is assumed that impatience depends on the value of...
Jacqueline Boyer, Fabrice Guillemin, Philippe Robe...