@conference {17532,
	title = {Receiver based management of low bandwidth access links},
	booktitle = {IEEE INFOCOM 2000. Nineteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Proceedings},
	volume = {1},
	year = {2000},
	month = {2000///},
	pages = {245-254 vol.1 - 245-254 vol.1},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	abstract = {In this paper, we describe a receiver-based congestion control policy that leverages TCP flow control mechanisms to prioritize mixed traffic loads across access links. We manage queueing at the access link to: (1) improve the response time of interactive network applications; (2) reduce congestion-related packet losses; while (3) maintaining high throughput for bulk-transfer applications. Our policy controls queue length by manipulating receive socket buffer sizes. We have implemented this solution in a dynamically loadable Linux kernel module, and tested it over low-bandwidth links. Our approach yields a 7-fold improvement in packet latency over an unmodified system while maintaining 94\% link utilization. In the common case, congestion-related packet losses at the access link can be eliminated. Finally, by prioritizing short flows, we show that our system reduces the time to download a complex Web page during a large background transfer by a factor of two},
	keywords = {Bandwidth, buffer storage, bulk-transfer applications, complex Web page, congestion control policy, Delay, dynamically loadable Linux kernel module, information resources, interactive network, Internet, Kernel, link utilization, Linux, low-bandwidth access links, mixed traffic load, packet latency, queue length, queueing theory, receive socket buffer sizes, receiver-based management, response time, short flow prioritizing, Size control, Sockets, subscriber loops, TCP flow control, telecommunication congestion control, telecommunication network management, Telecommunication traffic, Testing, Throughput, Transport protocols, Unix, Web pages},
	isbn = {0-7803-5880-5},
	doi = {10.1109/INFCOM.2000.832194},
	author = {Spring, Neil and Chesire,M. and Berryman,M. and Sahasranaman,V. and Anderson,T. and Bershad,B.}
}
@conference {17535,
	title = {Predicting the CPU availability of time-shared Unix systems on the computational grid},
	booktitle = {The Eighth International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, 1999. Proceedings},
	year = {1999},
	month = {1999///},
	pages = {105 - 112},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	abstract = {Focuses on the problem of making short- and medium-term forecasts of CPU availability on time-shared Unix systems. We evaluate the accuracy with which availability can be measured using the Unix load average, the Unix utility {\textquotedblleft}vmstat{\textquotedblright} and the Network Weather Service (NWS) CPU sensor that uses both. We also examine the autocorrelation between successive CPU measurements to determine their degree of self-similarity. While our observations show a long-range autocorrelation dependence, we demonstrate how this dependence manifests itself in the short- and medium-term predictability of the CPU resources in our study},
	keywords = {accuracy, Application software, Autocorrelation, Availability, Central Processing Unit, computational grid, correlation methods, CPU availability prediction, CPU resources predictability, CPU sensor, Dynamic scheduling, grid computing, Load forecasting, long-range autocorrelation dependence, medium-term forecasts, network operating systems, Network Weather Service, NWS, performance evaluation, self-similarity degree, short-term forecasts, successive CPU measurements, Time measurement, Time sharing computer systems, time-shared Unix systems, time-sharing systems, Unix, Unix load average, vmstat utility, Weather forecasting},
	isbn = {0-7803-5681-0},
	doi = {10.1109/HPDC.1999.805288},
	author = {Wolski,R. and Spring, Neil and Hayes,J.}
}
@article {14791,
	title = {IPS-2: the second generation of a parallel program measurement system},
	journal = {IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems},
	volume = {1},
	year = {1990},
	month = {1990/04//},
	pages = {206 - 217},
	abstract = {IPS, a performance measurement system for parallel and distributed programs, is currently running on its second implementation. IPS{\textquoteright}s model of parallel programs uses knowledge about the semantics of a program{\textquoteright}s structure to provide two important features. First, IPS provides a large amount of performance data about the execution of a parallel program, and this information is organized so that access to it is easy and intuitive. Secondly, IPS provides performance analysis techniques that help to guide the programmer automatically to the location of program bottlenecks. The first implementation of IPS was a testbed for the basic design concepts, providing experience with a hierarchical program and measurement model, interactive program analysis, and automatic guidance techniques. It was built on the Charlotte distributed operating system. The second implementation, IPS-2, extends the basic system with new instrumentation techniques, an interactive and graphical user interface, and new automatic guidance analysis techniques. This implementation runs on 4.3BSD UNIX systems, on the VAX, DECstation, Sun 4, and Sequent Symmetry multiprocessor},
	keywords = {4.3BSD UNIX systems, automatic guidance techniques, Automatic testing, Charlotte distributed operating system, CPA, DECstation, design concepts, distributed programs, graphical user interface, Graphical user interfaces, Instruments, interactive program analysis, IPS-2, measurement, message systems, network operating systems, Operating systems, parallel program measurement system, parallel programming, parallel programs, Performance analysis, performance analysis techniques, performance evaluation, performance measurement system, Power system modeling, program bottlenecks, program diagnostics, Programming profession, semantics, Sequent Symmetry multiprocessor, shared-memory systems, software tools, Springs, Sun, Sun 4, Unix, VAX},
	isbn = {1045-9219},
	doi = {10.1109/71.80132},
	author = {Miller, B. P and Clark, M. and Hollingsworth, Jeffrey K and Kierstead, S. and Lim,S. -S and Torzewski, T.}
}
