MPEGTool: an X window based MPEG encoder and statistics tool
MULTIMEDIA '93 Proceedings of the first ACM international conference on Multimedia
An extensible probe architecture for network protocol performance measurement
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM '98 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Time, clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system
Communications of the ACM
Language and Compiler Support for Adaptive Distributed Applications
OM '01 Proceedings of the 2001 ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Optimization of middleware and distributed systems
BRISK: A Portable and Flexible Distributed Instrumentation System
IPPS '99/SPDP '99 Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Parallel Processing and the 10th Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing
On QOS Mapping in Multimedia Networks
COMPSAC '97 Proceedings of the 21st International Computer Software and Applications Conference
Loki: A State-Driven Fault Injector for Distributed Systems
DSN '00 Proceedings of the 2000 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (formerly FTCS-30 and DCCA-8)
Automatic Configuration and Run-time Adaptation of Distributed Applications
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
Dynamic Monitoring of High-Performance Distributed Applications
HPDC '02 Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
An Automated Profiling Subsystem for QoS-Aware Services
RTAS '00 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE Real Time Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS 2000)
ControlWare: A Middleware Architecture for Feedback Control of Software Performance
ICDCS '02 Proceedings of the 22 nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'02)
Probing and fault injection of protocol implementations
ICDCS '95 Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Hierarchical QoS Management for Time Sensitive Applications
RTAS '01 Proceedings of the Seventh Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS '01)
An integrated experimental environment for distributed systems and networks
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
Detecting causal relationships in distributed computations: in search of the holy grail
Distributed Computing
Statistical characterization for per-hop QoS
IWQoS'03 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Quality of service
Control mechanisms for packet audio in the internet
INFOCOM'96 Proceedings of the Fifteenth annual joint conference of the IEEE computer and communications societies conference on The conference on computer communications - Volume 1
High speed and robust event correlation
IEEE Communications Magazine
A control-based middleware framework for quality-of-service adaptations
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Measurement-based admission control at edge routers
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
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Many modern networked applications require specific levels of service quality from the underlying network. Moreover, next-generation networked applications are expected to adapt to changes in the underlying network, services, and user interactions. While some applications have built-in adaptivity, the adaptation itself requires specification of a system model. This paper presents Sapphire, an experimental approach for systematic model generation for application adaptation within a target network. It employs a nearly-automated, statistical design of experiments to characterize the relationships of both application and network-level parameters. First, it applies the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) method to identify the most significant parameters and their interactions that affect performance. Next, it generates a model of application performance with respect to these parameters within the ranges of measurements. The key benefit of the framework is the integration of several well-established concepts of statistical modeling and distributed systems in the form of simple APIs so that existing applications can take advantage of it. We demonstrate the usefulness and flexibility of Sapphire by generating a performance model of an audio streaming application. We show that many existing multimedia and QoS-sensitive applications can exploit a statistical modeling approach such as Sapphire to incorporate application adaptivity. The approach can also be used for feedback control of distributed applications, tuning network and application parameters to achieve service levels in a target network.