This paper describes a concept based on application adaptivity and Differentiated Services (DiffServ) in order to provide the quality-of-service (QoS) required by real-time applications. Assuming the availability of d...
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(纸本)0780373715
This paper describes a concept based on application adaptivity and Differentiated Services (DiffServ) in order to provide the quality-of-service (QoS) required by real-time applications. Assuming the availability of different service classes, we propose that a real-time application always selects the lowest/cheapest service class that still can meet the application requirements. The selection depends on RTP-based QoS monitoring and on additional probing of the quality of the next lower service class. The service class selection algorithm has been implemented within an IP telephony application and evaluated in a test-bed consisting of Linux-PC based DiffServ routers. The evaluation proves the suitability of the approach but also shows several issues for further improvement.
A web crawling system employing a parallel and distributed architecture needs to have a mechanism to bring the whole system in a coordinated state when the nodes are added to or removed from the system. This paper pre...
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A web crawling system employing a parallel and distributed architecture needs to have a mechanism to bring the whole system in a coordinated state when the nodes are added to or removed from the system. This paper presents an efficient dynamic reconfiguration model that can be used in such a system. The study shows that this model leads to some nice properties, such as load balance and low traffic in the system, which contribute to high performance. Currently this model is being implemented in WebGather, a well-known Chinese and English web search engine.
The predominant Web search model attempts to use multiple computers under centralised management to act as one search engine for the entire Web. As the quantity of online information increases, systems based on this m...
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(纸本)0769511597
The predominant Web search model attempts to use multiple computers under centralised management to act as one search engine for the entire Web. As the quantity of online information increases, systems based on this model become prohibitively expensive for all but the largest organisations. We advocate the use of distributed search architectures where multiple independently owned and managed search engines act as one search system. This approach has significant advantages including low market entry cost for individual search providers and the potential to stimulate the provision of high-quality services through competition. The low entry cost allows small organisations and even individual users to influence service features and quality by establishing specialised search services. However, independent proprietorship also greatly complicates the search system design. The potential for competition between engines requires new approaches to effective engine management Many new issues arise such as deciding what information an engine will index. In this paper we analyse the sources of complexity in distributed Web search architectures with independent proprietorship and competition between engines. We outline possible ways to cope with this complexity using techniques from the field of computational economics such as game theory.
Group Communication System (GCS) is an important building block for reliable, fault-tolerant distributed applications. Due to highly variable and unpredictable latency in WANs, GCS needs to cope with frequent membersh...
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(纸本)0769509754
Group Communication System (GCS) is an important building block for reliable, fault-tolerant distributed applications. Due to highly variable and unpredictable latency in WANs, GCS needs to cope with frequent membership, changes. It results in diminishing the scalability of GCS. In this paper we propose a new scheme that improves the scalability of group membership service for WANs by exploring dedicated membership sewers configured into multiple layers and reaching global agreement on the view through layered servers. It improves the scalability of a process group of N member processes front O(N-2) to O(N-3) with three layers, where N is the number of processes in the group. computer simulation verifies that the proposed scheme requires much smaller number of message exchanges for reaching an agreement on a next view and does that much quicker. In addition, the proposed scheme pl events applications from being blocked until reaching the final view agreement if the applications permit temporary inconsistency.
Group Communication System (GCS) is an important building block for reliable, fault-tolerant distributed applications. Due to highly variable and unpredictable latency in WANs, GCS needs to cope with frequent membersh...
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Group Communication System (GCS) is an important building block for reliable, fault-tolerant distributed applications. Due to highly variable and unpredictable latency in WANs, GCS needs to cope with frequent membership changes. It results in diminishing the scalability of GCS. In this paper we propose a new scheme that improves the scalability of group membership service for WANs by exploiting dedicated membership servers configured into multiple layers and reaching global agreement on the view through layered servers. It improves the scalability of a process group of N member processes from O(N/sup 2/) to O(N/sup 3/) with three layers, where N is the number of processes in the group. computer simulation verifies that the proposed scheme requires much smaller number of message exchanges for reaching an agreement on a next view and does that much quicker. In addition, the proposed scheme prevents applications from being blocked until reaching the final view agreement if the applications permit temporary inconsistency.
Cooperation among various types of management functions is necessary to allow management functions to interwork in providing and using information services for systems management. To understand these tasks from the po...
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Cooperation among various types of management functions is necessary to allow management functions to interwork in providing and using information services for systems management. To understand these tasks from the point of view of cooperative working, this article discusses the requirements and presents the concept of cooperative system management.
SNMPv2 management tools for networks based on Novell NetWare and TCP/IP facilitate management of individual network workstations which allows a very detailed description of the network operation to be constructed. Usi...
There is a need for information exchange and communication between management applications that are distributed over a large system. In this situation, a fundamental problem is how the management systems should cooper...
The provision of services such as credit card facilities using Intelligent networks (IN) depends upon the ability to process real-time data. If their data is deliberately delayed during transit, these services may not...
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The provision of services such as credit card facilities using Intelligent networks (IN) depends upon the ability to process real-time data. If their data is deliberately delayed during transit, these services may not be able to function accurately. This paper examines INs and highlights their vulnerability to network delay attacks. In particular, the nature of rear-time communications and the main approach that has been developed to determine whether received data is being sent in real-time or not is discussed. The deficiencies in this approach in terms of its ability to counteract the different forms of a network delay attack are highlighted and an alternative method which addresses these drawbacks is presented. Finally, the results achieved following the implementation and subsequent testing of the alternative approach are discussed. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.
Several international standards for asynchronous data compression are available today. In 1993 the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) started to research possible ways to compress synchronous data. Special at...
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Several international standards for asynchronous data compression are available today. In 1993 the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) started to research possible ways to compress synchronous data. Special attention was given to compatibility with previous asynchronous standards, namely V.42bis. In September 1993 a proposal for modification of the V.42bis standard to make ii applicable to synchronous data was published. In this paper a prototype of a synchronous data link layer protocol based on the ITU proposals is described. The protocol chosen is HDLC based. The V.42bis compression standard is adapted to serve the needs of a synchronous protocol. A functional model is designed followed by a performance analysis of the protocol. The analysis shows a decrease of the compression ratio due to the adaption of the compression algorithm. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.
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