Previous studies measuring the performance of general-purpose operating systems running large-scale Internet server applications, such as proxy caches, have identified design defi...
Ad hoc wireless networks are new communication networks that can be dynamically formed and deformed onthe- y, anytime and anywhere. User data is routed with the help of an ad hoc ...
Chai-Keong Toh, Richard Chen, Minar Delwar, Donald...
A key determinant of the effectiveness of a web cache is the locality of the files requested. In the past this has been difficult to model, as locality appears to be cache specifi...
Chris M. Roadknight, Ian W. Marshall, Debbie Veare...
The most common problem of an overloaded electronic-commerce server is an increase in the response time perceived by customers, who may restart their requests hoping to get a fast...
Quality of service of e-commerce sites has been usually managed by the allocation of resources such as processors, disks, and network bandwidth, and by tracking conventional perfo...
In this paper we study how to make web servers (e.g., Apache) more crawler friendly. Current web servers offer the same interface to crawlers and regular web surfers, even though ...
Hot spots are a major obstacle to achieving scalability in the Internet. At the application layer, hot spots are usually caused by either (a) high demand for some data or (b) high...
Samrat Bhattacharjee, William C. Cheng, Cheng-Fu C...