Website traffic varies through time in consistent and predictable ways, with highest traffic in the middle of the day. When providing media content to visitors, it is important to...
—In this paper, we study how to build a front-end flow management system for SIP application servers. This is challenging because of some special characteristics of SIP and SIP a...
A staggering number of multimedia applications are being introduced every day. Yet, the inordinate delays encountered in retrieving multimedia documents make it difficult to use t...
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...
Meeting client Quality-of-Service (QoS) expectations proves to be a difficult task for the providers of e-Commerce services, especially when web servers experience overload condit...