Power consumption has become a critical issue in large scale clusters. Existing solutions for addressing the servers' energy consumption suggest ``shrinking'' the set of active machines, at least until the more power-proport-ional hardware devices become a ...
Since the bandwidth-delay products of Internet links keep increasing, issues with TCP's convergence time, throughput, and amount of queuing in these environments are becoming more pressing. As we move toward the next-generation Internet, it is important to ...