ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Subcontract: a flexible base for distributed programming
SOSP '93 Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Adaptive methods for distributed video presentation
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Cluster-based scalable network services
Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
httperf—a tool for measuring web server performance
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
Microsoft TerraServer: a spatial data warehouse
SIGMOD '00 Proceedings of the 2000 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Application isolation in the Java Virtual Machine
OOPSLA '00 Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
Application performance in the QLinux multimedia operating system
MULTIMEDIA '00 Proceedings of the eighth ACM international conference on Multimedia
SEDA: an architecture for well-conditioned, scalable internet services
SOSP '01 Proceedings of the eighteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
The state of the art in locally distributed Web-server systems
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Improving web performance by client characterization driven server adaptation
Proceedings of the 11th international conference on World Wide Web
An adaptive load balancing scheme for web servers
International Journal of Network Management
An Architecture-Based Approach to Self-Adaptive Software
IEEE Intelligent Systems
SmartPointers: personalized scientific data portals in your hand
Proceedings of the 2002 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
SOSP '83 Proceedings of the ninth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
dQUOB: Managing Large Data Flows Using Dynamic Embedded Queries
HPDC '00 Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
IQ-RUDP: Coordinating Application Adaptation with Network Transport
HPDC '02 Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
FARA ¾ A Framework for Adaptive Resource Allocation in Complex Real-Time Systems
RTAS '98 Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium
Dynamic Window-Constrained Scheduling for Multimedia Applications
ICMCS '99 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems - Volume 2
A Practical Approach for Zero' Downtime in an Operational Information System
ICDCS '02 Proceedings of the 22 nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'02)
Specifying and Measuring Quality of Service in Distributed Object Systems
ISORC '98 Proceedings of the The 1st IEEE International Symposium on Object-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing
Adaptable Mirroring in Cluster Servers
HPDC '01 Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
Xen and the art of virtualization
SOSP '03 Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Efficient End to End Data Exchange Using Configurable Compression
ICDCS '04 Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'04)
StreamGen: A Workload Generation Tool for Distributed Information Flow Applications
ICPP '04 Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Parallel Processing
Checking Inside the Black Box: Regression Testing Based on Value Spectra Differences
ICSM '04 Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance
Extending a J2EE™ server with dynamic and flexible resource management
Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IFIP/USENIX international conference on Middleware
An Architectural Approach to Autonomic Computing
ICAC '04 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomic Computing
ATEC '00 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Utility-driven proactive management of availability in enterprise-scale information flows
Proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 2006 International Conference on Middleware
Isolation points: Creating performance-robust enterprise systems
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
Utility-driven proactive management of availability in enterprise-scale information flows
Middleware'06 Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IFIP/USENIX international conference on Middleware
I-queue: smart queues for service management
ICSOC'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Service-Oriented Computing
VScope: middleware for troubleshooting time-sensitive data center applications
Proceedings of the 13th International Middleware Conference
A study of unpredictability in fault-tolerant middleware
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
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A problem with many distributed applications is their behavior in lieu of unpredictable variations in user request volumes or in available resources. This paper explores a performance isolation-based approach to creating robust distributed applications. For each application, the approach is to (1) understand the performance dependencies that pervade it and then (2) provide mechanisms for imposing constraints on the possible 'spread' of such dependencies through the application. Concrete results are attained for J2EE middleware, for which we identify sample performance dependencies: in the application layer during request execution and in the middleware layer during request de-fragmentation and during return parameter marshalling. Isolation points are the novel software abstraction used to capture performance dependencies and represent solutions for dealing with them, and they are used to create (2) I(solation)-RMI, which is a version of RMI-IIOP implemented in the WebSphere service infrastructure enhanced with isolation points. Initial results show the approach's ability to detect and filter ill-behaving messages that can cause an up to a 85% drop in performance for the Trade3 benchmark, and to eliminate up to a 56% drop in performance due to misbehaving clients.