Data centers are growing exponentially (in number and size) to accommodate the escalating
user and application demands. Likewise, the concerns about the environmental impacts …

Network traffic workloads are widely utilized in applied research to verify correctness and to
measure the impact of novel algorithms, protocols, and network functions. We provide a …

The rapid growth in demand for computational power driven by modern service applications
combined with the shift to the Cloud computing model have led to the establishment of large …

Information retrieval (IR) has changed considerably in recent years with the expansion of the
World Wide Web and the advent of modern and inexpensive graphical user interfaces and …

CUBIC is a congestion control protocol for TCP (transmission control protocol) and the
current default TCP algorithm in Linux. The protocol modifies the linear window growth …

Internet workload is a mix of many and complex sources. Therefore, its accurate and realistic
replication is a difficult and challenging task. Such difficulties are exacerbated by the …

Recently, I became interested in a current debate over whether file size distributions are best
modelled by a power law distribution or a lognormal distribution. In trying to learn enough …

Stochastic Process Limits are useful and interesting because they generate simple
approximations for complicated stochastic processes and also help explain the statistical …

Three experimental environments traditionally support network and distributed systems
research: network emulators, network simulators, and live networks. The continued use of …

Internet hosting centers serve multiple service sites from a common hardware base. This
paper presents the design and implementation of an architecture for resource management …