Abstract—In the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing market, spot instances refer to virtual servers that are rented via an auction. Spot instances allow IaaS provi...
One of the open questions in the design of multimedia storage servers is in what order to serve incoming requests. Given the capability provided by the disk layout and scheduling ...
True VoD systems provide interactive on-demand video service by allocating each client a dedicated stream. Such a scheme is inefficient when the system has a large number of users...
Bahjat Qazzaz, Remo Suppi, Fernando Cores, Ana Rip...
As web-based transactions become an essential element of everyday corporate and commerce activities, it becomes increasingly important that the performance of web-based services b...
Chang Li, Gang Peng, Kartik Gopalan, Tzi-cker Chiu...
Nowadays, systems often integrate a variety of applications whose service requirements are heterogeneous. Consequently, systems must be able to concurrently serve applications whi...