Adaptive Admission Control for Multiclass Servers

Proceedings paper title: Autonomic Admission Control for Networked Information Servers

While the issue of enabling performance guarantees on the Internet has been the subject of intense research in recent years, the problem of enabling QoS guarantees in edge servers has received relatively little attention. The need for QoS guarantees is already present in today’s Internet: while most backbones operate at a low level of utilization, web servers are often congested and are the main cause for the delay experienced by the end user. Of particular interest is the design and implementation of algorithms that enable service guarantees for multimedia applications. For this class of applications it is important to guarantee bounds on delay and/or loss rate; at the same time, audio and/or video streaming applications tax system resources and can easily lead to congestion.