Foreword

Preface

Product-form results for two-station networks with shared resources

Queueing networks are studied with two stations: either in tandem or in parallel, and with a common service resource shared among the two stations. First, a necessary and sufficient criterion, called adjoint reversibility, is provided to decide whether the system possesses a product form or not. This criterion unifies both the parallel (a...

Dynamic Profit Optimization of Composite Web Services with SLAs

In this paper we investigate sequential decision mechanisms for composite web services. After executing each sub-service within a sequential workflow, decisions are made whether to terminate or continue the execution of the workflow. These decisions are based on observed response times, expected rewards, and typical Service Level Agreement...

TCP and web browsing performance in case of bi-directional packet loss

Performance modeling of the transport control protocol (TCP) has received a lot of attention over the past few years. The most commonly quoted results are approximate formulas for TCP throughput (Padhye et al. (2000) [1]) and document download times (Cardwell et al. (2000) [2]) which are used for dimensioning of IP networks. However, the...

Sojourn time approximations in queueing networks with feedback

This paper is motivated by the response-time analysis of distributed information systems, where transactions are handled by a sequence of front-end server and back-end server actions. We study sojourn times in an open queueing network with a single Processor Sharing (PS) node and an arbitrary number of M multi-server First-Come-First-Served ...

SLA calculus for end-to-end QOS of TCP-based applications in a multi-domain environment

Next-generation communication services will be offered over distributed information and communication infrastructures consisting of a multitude of administrative domains, owned by different parties. This raises the problem for service providers to provide satisfactory levels of end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS), as experienced by the paying...

Enhancement of an integrated packet/flow model for TCP performance

Processor sharing (PS) models nicely capture the bandwidth sharing and statistical multiplexing effect of TCP at the flow-level. However, these 'rough' models do not provide insight into the impact of packet-level parameters (round trip time, buffer size) on performance metrics such as throughput and flow transfer times. In a previous paper an...

The use of residential gateways in content delivery networking

We have investigated and compared various aspects of the storage of multimedia content at residential gateways (RG) in the home or at caches in the public network. From qualitative analyses of Personal Video Recording and Content Delivery Networking techniques, we conclude that service architectures incorporating storage on the RG as well as in...

Sojourn-time approximations for a multi-server processor sharing system with priorities

We study mean sojourn times in a multi-server processor sharing system with two priority classes and with general service-time distributions. For high-priority customers, the mean sojourn time follows directly from classical results on symmetric queues. For low-priority customers, in the absence of exact results, we propose a simple and explicit...