High performance Web server Systems

This page includes a selected list of publications since 1997. Publications not available online can be requested to the authors.

This list has been updated last on May 6, 2002.

Cluster-Based Web Server Systems (HiPerWeb)

• V. Cardellini, E. Casalicchio, M. Colajanni, P.S. Yu, ``The state of the art in locally distributed Web-server systems'', ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 1-49, June 2002.
• M. Colajanni, P.S. Yu, ``A performance study of robust load sharing strategies for distributed heterogeneous Web server systems'', IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 398-414, March/April 2002.
• E. Casalicchio, V. Cardellini, M. Colajanni, ``Content-aware dispatching algorithms for cluster-based Web servers'', Cluster Computing, Kluwer Academic Publ., Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 67-76, Jan. 2002.
• V. Cardellini, E. Casalicchio, M. Colajanni, P.S. Yu, ``The state of the art in locally distributed Web-server systems'', IBM Research Report RC 22209, Yorktown Heights, NY, Oct. 2001.
• E. Casalicchio, M. Colajanni, ``A client-aware dispatching algorithm for Web clusters providing multiple services'' , Proc. of 10th Int'l World Wide Web Conference, pp. 535-544, Hong Kong, May 2001.
• E. Casalicchio, M. Colajanni, ``Scalable Web cluster with static and dynamic contents'', Proc. of IEEE Int'l Conf. on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER'00), pp. 170-177, Chemnitz, Germany, Dec. 2000
• M. Colajanni, P.S. Yu, V. Cardellini, ``Scalable Web-server systems: Architectures, models and load balancing algorithms'', Tutorial presented at ACM Sigmetrics 2000, Santa Clara, CA, June 2000.
• V. Cardellini, E. Casalicchio, M. Colajanni, S. Tucci, ``Parallel and distributed architectures for fast and dependable Web services'', Proc. 7th Int'l Congress on New Technologies and Computing Applications, Cuba, May 2000.
• V. Cardellini, M. Colajanni, P.S. Yu, ``Impact of workload models in evaluating the performance of distributed Web-server systems'', System performance evaluation: methodologies and applications, E. Gelenbe ed., CRC Press, pp. 397-417, Mar. 2000.

• E. Casalicchio, M. Colajanni, S. Tucci, ``Load management in parallel Web systems'', Proc. of 14th Int'l. Symp. on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS'99), pp. 99-106, Kusadasi, Turkey, Oct. 1999.
• V. Cardellini, M. Colajanni, P. S. Yu, ``High performance Web-server systems'', Proc. 13th Int'l Symp. On Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS'98), Ankara, Turkey, pp. 288-293, Oct. 1998.

Geographically distributed Web-server systems (GeoWeb)

• V. Cardellini, M. Colajanni, P.S. Yu, ``Geographic load balancing for scalable distributed Web systems'', Proc. 8th Int'l Symp. on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS'00), San Francisco, CA, pp. 20-27, Aug./Sep. 2000. IEEE Computer Society.
• V. Cardellini, M. Colajanni, P.S. Yu, ``Redirecting strategies for load sharing policies in distributed Web systems'', Proc. 14th Int'l Symp. on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS'99), Kusadasi, Turkey, pp. 91-98, Oct. 1999.
• V. Cardellini, M. Colajanni, P.S. Yu, ``DNS dispatching algorithms with state estimators for scalable Web-server clusters'', World Wide Web Journal, Baltzer Science, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 101-113, Aug. 1999.
• V. Cardellini, M. Colajanni, P.S. Yu, ``Redirection algorithms for load sharing in distributed Web-server systems'', Proc. IEEE 19th Int'l Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'99), Austin, TX, pp. 528-535, June 1999.
• V. Cardellini, M. Colajanni, P.S. Yu, ``Dynamic load balancing on Web-server systems'', IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 28-39, May-June 1999.
• V. Cardellini, M. Colajanni, P.S. Yu, ``Efficient state estimators for load control policies in scalable Web-server cluster'', Proc. of IEEE 22nd Int'l Computer Software and Application Conf. (COMPSAC'98), Vienna, Austria, pp. 449-456, Aug. 1998.
• M. Colajanni, P.S. Yu, D.M. Dias, ``Analysis of task assignment policies in scalable distributed Web-server systems'', IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 9, No. 6, June 1998.
• M. Colajanni, P.S. Yu, V. Cardellini, ``Dynamic load balancing in geografically distributed heterogeneous Web-servers'', Proc. of IEEE 18th Int'l Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'98), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 295-302, May 1998.
• M. Colajanni, P.S. Yu, ``Adaptive TTL schemes for load balancing for distributed Web servers'', ACM Performance Evaluation Review, Special issue on Multimedia Systems, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 36-42, Sept. 1997.
• M. Colajanni, P.S. Yu, D.M. Dias, ``Scheduling algorithms for distributed Web servers'', Proc. of IEEE 17th Int'l Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'97), Baltimore, MD, pp. 169-176, May 1997.