Web caching has been proposed as an effective solution to the problems of network traffic and congestion, Web objects access and Web load balancing. This paper presents a model for...
Fragmentation leads to unpredictable and degraded application performance. While these problems have been studied in detail for desktop filesystem workloads, this study examines n...
Dynamic power management aims at extending battery life by switching devices to lower-power modes when there is a reduced demand for service. Static power management strategies can...
Abstract--Incremental-redundancy hybrid automatic repeatrequest (IR-HARQ) schemes are proposed in several wireless standards for increased throughput-efficiency and greater reliabi...
Ashok K. Karmokar, Dejan V. Djonin, Vijay K. Bharg...
We consider multi-class blocking systems in which jobs require a single processing step. There are groups of servers that can each serve a different subset of all job classes. The...