This paper addresses the problem of how to service web requests quickly in order to minimize the client response time. Some of the recent work uses the idea of the Shortest Remain...
Although Web prefetching is regarded as an effective method to improve client access performance, the associated overhead prevents it from being widely deployed. Specifically, a ...
This note briefly summarizes some results from two papers: [4] and [23]. These papers pose the following question: Is it possible to reduce the expected response time of every req...
Mor Harchol-Balter, Nikhil Bansal, Bianca Schroede...
WWW-based Internet information service has grown enormously during the last few years, and major performance bottlenecks have been caused by WWW server and Internet bandwidth inad...
Daniel Andresen, Tao Yang, David Watson, Athanassi...
Interactive multimediaapplicationsrequire fast response time. Traditional disk scheduling schemes can incur high latencies, and caching data in memory to reduce latency is usually...