Traditional performance models are too brittle to be relied on for continuous capacity planning and performance debugging in many computer systems. Simply put, a brittle model is ...
The benefit of Class-of-Service (CoS) is an important topic in the "Network Neutrality" debate. Proponents of network neutrality suggest that over-provisioning is a viab...
Murat Yuksel, Kadangode K. Ramakrishnan, Shivkumar...
In a shared server infrastructure, a scheduler controls how quantities of resources are shared over time in a fair manner across multiple, competing consumers. It should support w...
This paper describes an efficient and accurate approach to estimate the network distance between arbitrary Internet hosts. We use three landmark hosts forming a triangle in two-di...
Over the last few years, the number of game players using voice communication to talk to each other while playing games has increased dramatically. In fact, many modern games and ...
In the past few years, several research works have demonstrated that sampling can drastically speed up architecture simulation, and several of these sampling techniques are already...