SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2009
ACM
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...
SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2009
ACM
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...
SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2009
ACM
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...
SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2009
ACM
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...
SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2009
ACM
SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2009
ACM
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...
SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2009
ACM
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,...
SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2009
ACM
SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2009
ACM
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...
SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2009
ACM
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...