IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Performance Analysis for E-Business: Impact of Long Range Dependence
Electronic Commerce Research
Hippodrome: Running Circles Around Storage Administration
FAST '02 Proceedings of the Conference on File and Storage Technologies
Classifying scheduling policies with respect to unfairness in an M/GI/1
SIGMETRICS '03 Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
User-Centric Performance Analysis of Market-Based Cluster Batch Schedulers
CCGRID '02 Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
A Feedback Control Approach for Guaranteeing Relative Delays in Web Servers
RTAS '01 Proceedings of the Seventh Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS '01)
Integrated resource management for cluster-based internet services
OSDI '02 Proceedings of the 5th symposium on Operating systems design and implementationCopyright restrictions prevent ACM from being able to make the PDFs for this conference available for downloading
Resource overbooking and application profiling in shared hosting platforms
OSDI '02 Proceedings of the 5th symposium on Operating systems design and implementationCopyright restrictions prevent ACM from being able to make the PDFs for this conference available for downloading
Dynamic resource allocation for shared data centers using online measurements
IWQoS'03 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Quality of service
A practical learning-based approach for dynamic storage bandwidth allocation
IWQoS'03 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Quality of service
Analytic modeling of multitier Internet applications
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
Towards autonomic computing systems
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Autonomic metered pricing for a utility computing service
Future Generation Computer Systems
Asymptotically Optimal Controls for Time-Inhomogeneous Networks
SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization
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This paper considers a web service that receives requests from customers at various rates at different times. The objective is to build an autonomic system that is tuned to different settings based on the varying conditions, both internally and externally. The authors have developed revenue-based pricing as well as admission control strategies, taking into account quality of service issues such as slow down and fairness aspects. Three heuristics are developed in this paper to address the pricing and admission control problem. The three heuristics are: (1) static pricing combined with queue-length-threshold-based admission control; (2) dynamic optimal pricing with no admission control; and (3) static pricing with nonnegative-profit-based admission control. These three strategies are benchmarked against a fourth strategy (called-do nothing) with no pricing and no admission control. The paper evaluates and compares their performance, implementability and computational complexity. The conclusion is that the web server revenue can be significantly increased by appropriately turning away customers via pricing or admission control mechanisms, and this can be done autonomically in the web server.