Real time scheduling theory: A historical perspective

L Sha, T Abdelzaher, KE Årzén, A Cervin, T Baker… - Real-time systems, 2004 - Springer
In this 25th year anniversary paper for the IEEE Real Time Systems Symposium, we review
the key results in real-time scheduling theory and the historical events that led to the …

[PDF][PDF] The ns Manual (formerly ns Notes and Documentation)

K Fall, K Varadhan - The VINT project, 2005 - Citeseer
The ns Manual (formerly ns Notes and Documentation)1 Page 1 The ns Manual (formerly ns
Notes and Documentation)1 The VINT Project A Collaboration between researchers at UC …

Feedback performance control in software services

TF Abdelzaher, JA Stankovic, C Lu… - IEEE Control Systems …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Feedback performance control in software services Page 1 Software systems are becoming
larger and more complex. At the same time, they are being de- ployed in applications where …

Controlware: A middleware architecture for feedback control of software performance

R Zhang, C Lu, TF Abdelzaher… - Proceedings 22nd …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Attainment of software performance assurances in open, largely unpredictable environments
has recently become an important focus for real-time research. Unlike closed embedded …

Feedback control with queueing-theoretic prediction for relative delay guarantees in web servers

Y Lu, T Abdelzaher, C Lu, L Sha… - The 9th IEEE Real-Time …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of feedback control theory for performance guarantees in QoS-aware systems has
gained much attention in recent years. In this paper, we investigate merging, within a single …

A survey of adaptive bandwidth control algorithms

P Siripongwutikorn, S Banerjee… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In packet-switched network traffic management and control, efficiently allocating bandwidth
to provide quantitative packet-level QoS to aggregate traffic has been difficult due to …

An adaptive control framework for qos guarantees and its application to differentiated caching

Y Lu, T Abdelzaher, C Lu, G Tao - … on Quality of Service (Cat. No …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software mechanisms that enforce QoS guarantees often require knowledge of platform
capacity and resource demand. This requirement calls for performance measurements and …

[图书][B] The competitive Internet service provider: network architecture, interconnection, traffic engineering and network design

O Heckmann - 2007 - books.google.com
Due to the dramatic increase in competition over the last few years, it has become more and
more important for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to run an efficient business and offer an …

Improved prediction for web server delay control

D Henriksson, Y Lu… - … 16th Euromicro Conference …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Control methods are being used increasingly for uncertainty management and QoS in
modern Web server systems. Previous approaches have suggested combined feedforward …

Practical application of control theory to web services

T Abdelzaher, Y Lu, R Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This tutorial describes experiences with applying a control theoretical approach to achieving
performance guarantees in Web servers, with emphasis on delay control. A model for the …