Network-centric computing aims to solve the problems associated with traditional client/server systems, namely the high performance requirements, and costly maintenance of, the co...
We introduce and evaluate a middleware clustering technology capable of allocating resources to web applications through dynamic application instance placement. We define applicat...
A. Karve, Tracy Kimbrel, Giovanni Pacifici, Mike S...
— Content Delivery Overlays improves end-user performance by replicating Web contents on a group of geographically distributed sites interconnected over the Internet. However, wi...
Electronic commerce servers have a significant presence in today’s Internet. Corporations require good performance for their business processes. To date, little empirical evide...
Qing Wang, Dwight J. Makaroff, H. Keith Edwards, R...
To cope with the explosive increase in the number of requests to Internet server systems, one popular solution is a load-balancing technique that uses a dispatcher in the front-en...