The congestion control mechanisms of TCP make it vulnerable in an environment where flows with different congestionsensitivity compete for scarce resources. With the increasing am...
Abstract. We consider the issue of task assignment in a distributed system under heavy-tailed (ie. highly variable) workloads. A new adaptable approach called TAPTF (Task Assignmen...
EnFuzion and MOSIX are two packages that represent different approaches to cluster management. EnFuzion is a user-level queuing system that can dispatch a predetermined number of ...
Jackson networks have been very successful in so many areas in modeling parallel and distributed systems. However, the ability of Jackson networks to predict performance with syste...
A lot of research has been done on answering single-item queries, only a few have looked at answering multiple-item queries in data broadcast systems. The few that did, have propos...
Adesola Omotayo, Ken Barker, Moustafa A. Hammad, L...