The use of feedback control theory for performance guarantees in QoS-aware systems has gained much attention in recent years. In this paper, we investigate merging, within a singl...
Ying Lu 0002, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Chenyang Lu, Lu...
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...
This paper discusses the use of a parallel discrete-event network emulator called the Internet Protocol Traffic and Network Emulator (IP-TNE) for Web server benchmarking. The expe...
Rob Simmonds, Carey L. Williamson, Russell Bradfor...
Previous studies indicate that I/O could become a performance bottleneck in commodity PC-based cluster Web servers. Current local native file systems do not work well for expensiv...
This paper presents a mechanism to improve Web server performance with fuzzy-based techniques. A load balancing mechanism based on the fuzzy control technique is developed in such...
Bumjoo Park, Kiejin Park, Dongmin Shin, Sungsoo Ki...