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SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
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Maximum likelihood estimation of the flow size distribution tail index from sampled packet data
In the context of network traffic analysis, we address the problem of estimating the tail index of flow (or more generally of any group) size distribution from the observation of...
Patrick Loiseau, Paulo Gonçalves, Sté...
SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
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Restrained utilization of idleness for transparent scheduling of background tasks
A common practice in system design is to treat features intended to enhance performance and reliability as low priority tasks by scheduling them during idle periods, with the goal...
Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Xin Li, Evgenia Smirni, E...
SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
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On the treeness of internet latency and bandwidth
Existing empirical studies of Internet structure and path properties indicate that the Internet is tree-like. This work quantifies the degree to which at least two important Inte...
Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Dahlia Malkhi, Fabian...
SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
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The age of gossip: spatial mean field regime
Disseminating a piece of information, or updates for a piece of information, has been shown to benefit greatly from simple randomized procedures, sometimes referred to as gossipi...
Augustin Chaintreau, Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Nikodin ...
SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
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Dynamic data compression in multi-hop wireless networks
Abhishek Sharma, Leana Golubchik, Ramesh Govindan,...
SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
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Botnet spam campaigns can be long lasting: evidence, implications, and analysis
Accurately identifying spam campaigns launched by a large number of bots in a botnet allows for accurate spam campaign signature generation and hence is critical to defeating spam...
Abhinav Pathak, Feng Qian, Y. Charlie Hu, Zhuoqing...
SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
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Modeling channel popularity dynamics in a large IPTV system
Understanding the channel popularity or content popularity is an important step in the workload characterization for modern information distribution systems (e.g., World Wide Web,...
Tongqing Qiu, Zihui Ge, Seungjoon Lee, Jia Wang, Q...
SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
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Node weighted scheduling
Gagan Raj Gupta, Sujay Sanghavi, Ness B. Shroff
SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
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Understanding intrinsic characteristics and system implications of flash memory based solid state drives
Flash Memory based Solid State Drive (SSD) has been called a “pivotal technology” that could revolutionize data storage systems. Since SSD shares a common interface with the t...
Feng Chen, David A. Koufaty, Xiaodong Zhang
SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Surprising results on task assignment in server farms with high-variability workloads
This paper investigates the performance of task assignment policies for server farms, as the variability of job sizes (service demands) approaches infinity. Our results reveal th...
Mor Harchol-Balter, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Andrew R. ...