Papers
- Jussara Almeida, Virgilio Almeida, and David Yates.
"Measuring the Behavior of a World-Wide Web Server", IFIP
HPN'97: High Performance Networking Conference, White Plains, NY,
April 1997.
- Virgilio Almeida, Azer Bestavros, Mark Crovella, and Adriana de Oliveira.
"Characterizing Reference Locality in the WWW",
In Proceedings of IEEE PDIS'96: The International Conference
in Parallel and Distributed Information Systems, Miami Beach,
Florida, December 1996.
- Azer Bestavros and Carlos Cunha,
"Server-initiated Document Dissemination for the WWW"
IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, September 1996.
- Mark Crovella and Azer Bestavros,
"Self-Similarity in World Wide Web Traffic: Evidence and
Possible Causes"
In Proceedings of SIGMETRICS'96, Philadelphia, PA, May
1996.
- Azer Bestavros,
Middleware Support for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
in Large-scale Distributed Information Systems.
In Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD'96 Data Mining Workshop,
Montreal, Canada, June 1996.
- Azer Bestavros,
"Speculative Data Dissemination and Service to Reduce Server Load,
Network Traffic and Service Time for Distributed Information Systems"
Proceedings of ICDE'96: The 1996 International Conference
on Data Engineering, New Orleans, Louisiana.
March 1996.
- Azer Bestavros,
"Using speculation to reduce server load and service time on the WWW"
in Proceedings of CIKM'95: The Fourth ACM International Conference
on Information and Knowledge Management, Baltimore, Maryland.
November 1995.
- Azer Bestavros,
"Demand-based document dissemination to reduce traffic and
balance load in distributed information systems"
in Proceedings of the 1995 Seventh IEEE Symposium on Parallel
and Distributed Processing, San Antonio, Texas. October 1995.
- Azer Bestavros,
"Demand-based Data Dissemination for Distributed Multimedia
Applications" in Proceedings of the ACM/ISMM/IASTED
International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems and
Applications, Stanford, CA. August 1995.
- Mark E. Crovella and Robert L. Carter,
"Dynamic Server Selection in the Internet", in
Proceedings of the Third IEEE Workshop on the
Architecture and Implementation of High Performance Communication
Subsystems (HPCS'95), August 1995. Also available as TR-95-014,
Boston University Computer Science Department, June 1995.
- Azer Bestavros,
"Information Dissemination and Speculative Service: Two candidate
functionalities for the middleware infrastructure" in
Proceedings of SIGCOMM'95 Workshop on Middleware. Cambridge,
MA, August 1995.
- Abdelsalam Heddaya and Sulaiman Mirdad,
Wave: Wide-Area Virtual Environment for Distributing Published
Documents. in
Proceedings of SIGCOMM'95 Workshop on Middleware. Cambridge,
MA, August 1995.
- Azer Bestavros, Bob Carter, Mark Crovella, Carlos Cunha, Abdelsalam
Heddaya, and Suliman Mirdad,
"Application-level Document Caching in the Internet"
in Proceedings of SDNE'95: The second International Workshop on
Services in Distributed and Network Environments. Whistler,
Canada, June 1995.
Technical Reports
- Abdelsalam Heddaya and Sulaiman Mirdad.
WebWave: Globally Load Balanced Fully Distributed Caching of Hot Published
Documents., Technical Report TR-96-011, Boston University,
CS Dept, Boston, MA 02215, October 1996.
- Virgilio Almeida, Azer Bestavros, Mark Crovella, and Adriana de Oliveira.
"Characterizing Reference Locality in the WWW",
Technical Report TR-96-011, Boston University,
CS Dept, Boston, MA 02215, June 21, 1996.
- Azer Bestavros, Marina Chen, Mark Crovella, Abdelsalam Heddaya,
Stan Sclaroff, and James Cowie.
"Responsive
Web Computing: Resource Management, Protocol Techniques, and
Applications (A research statement)" Technical Report TR-96-08,
Boston University, CS Dept, Boston, MA 02215, March 21, 1996.
- Robert L. Carter and Mark E. Crovella,
"Dynamic Server Selection Using Bandwidth Probing in Wide-Area
Networks", Technical Report TR-96-007, Boston University,
CS Dept, Boston, MA 02215, March 18, 1996.
- Robert L. Carter and Mark E. Crovella,
"Measuring Bottleneck Link Speed in Packet-Switched Networks",
Technical Report TR-96-006, Boston University, CS Dept, Boston,
MA 02215, March 15, 1996.
- Virgilio A. F. Almeida and Adriana Oliveira.
"On the Fractal Nature of WWW and Its Application
to Cache Modeling", Technical Report TR-96-004, Boston
University, CS Dept, Boston, February 5, 1996.
- Mark Crovella and Azer Bestavros.
"Explaining World Wide Web Traffic Self-Similarity",
Technical Report TR-95-015, Boston University, CS Dept, Boston, MA
02215, August 1995.
- Azer Bestavros and Carlos Cunha.
"A prefetching protocol using client speculation for the WWW",
Technical Report TR-95-011, Boston University, CS Dept, Boston, MA
02215, May 1995.
- Carlos Cunha, Azer Bestavros, and Mark Crovella,
Characteristics of WWW Client-based Traces.
Technical Report TR-95-010, Boston University, CS Dept,
Boston, MA 02215, April, 1995.[
Accompanying logs]
- Azer Bestavros,
Using Speculation to Reduce Server Load and Service Time on the WWW.
Technical Report TR-95-006, Boston University, CS Dept,
Boston, MA 02215, February, 1995.
- Azer Bestavros,
Demand-based Document Dissemination for the World Wide Web.
Technical Report TR-95-003, Boston University, CS Dept,
Boston, MA 02215, February, 1995.
- Azer Bestavros, Robert Carter, Mark Crovella, Carlos Cunha, Abdelsalam
Heddaya, and Suliman Mirdad,
Application-Level Document Caching in the Internet. Technical
Report TR-95-002, Boston University, CS Dept, Boston, MA 02215,
February, 1995.
Created on: 1995.05.06
Updated on: 1996.09.12
Maintainer: Azer Bestavros
